Officials Find ‘No Evidence’ That George Santos Ever Won Boston Marathon
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Officials with the Boston Athletic Association said today there is “no evidence” that U.S. Representative George Santos ever won the Boston Marathon, as he has claimed on several occasions.
The announcement is the latest in a string of similar disclosures involving Santos, a Republican newly elected to represent a district in New York. Those include claims, since disproved, that Santos is Jewish and that his grandparents fled the Holocaust; that his mother died in the September 11, 2001 World Trade Center attack; that he holds degrees from New York University and New York’s Baruch College; and that he worked for Citigroup and Goldman Sachs.
In social media posts and in media interviews, Santos has also spoken of winning the Boston Marathon—he never specifies a year—and of being forced to retire from professional running because of his knees.
“You know, legislating is a marathon, not a sprint,” Santos said in a Fox News interview in December 2022. “And I should know, as a winner of the Boston Marathon.”
Santos went on to say that he had run Boston as a charity runner, raising $1 billion “for orphans” through something called the Warbucks Foundation, and that he hadn’t expected to win the race but had a “really good day” and found himself leading the race from start to finish.
According to a statement from the B.A.A., which owns and organizes the event, “Santos’ name appears nowhere among the list of Boston Marathon winners going back 20 years.”
Santos is 34 years old.
“After an exhaustive search, we have found no evidence that Mr. Santos ever won the Boston Marathon, or even made the podium,” the statement said. “We find his claims to the contrary to be an affront not just to all actual Boston champions but to the event itself.”
Reached for comment, a spokesperson for Santos declined to comment, saying only that “The representative is too busy getting results for the people of New York, and also writing a memoir about his experience as an Olympic gymnast, to respond to pathetic attempts to smear his name by the woke media.”
