Omer ran the half-marathon race in a personal best time of one hour, three minutes and eight seconds
The 10km race was run at the same time for the first time this year
Race organisers praised his run, but said of his disqualification, “rules are rules”
The Birmingham-based runner had put his name down for the 10km race, which was held on the same day for the first time this year.
After setting off with the first wave of runners — which included elite athletes from both races — Omer took a wrong turn where the two routes diverged.
He only discovered his mistake at the six mile (9.5km) mark of the 21.1km event.
“I asked someone when I reached the sixth mile, ‘is this a 10k'”, he told the Bristol Post.
“They said ‘no, it’s a half-marathon,’ so after that I slowed down a bit.”
He might have slowed, slightly, but he still did enough to cross the line first, and set a new PB of 1:03:08 — almost five minutes ahead of Chris Thompson in second place.