A marathon runner was denied the ‘fastest nurse’ world record because she didn’t wear a dress

Jessica Anderson completing the London Marathon on April 28. By Deanna Paul Deanna Paul Reporter covering national and breaking news Email Bio Follow May 5 at 5:38 PM Jessica Anderson trained for the London Marathon with a goal: she wanted to be the fastest female to complete the race dressed as a nurse.

Because Anderson ran wearing medical scrubs, and not a dress, she did not qualify as a record-breaker. “That didn’t feel right to me,” she said. “After that it was too late to resubmit, but I didn’t want to change my outfit anyway.”In a letter viewed by The Post, dated Feb. 19, the nurse called the criteria “outdated and frankly quite sexist.”

The official also drew on other categories as a comparison: “Marathons dressed as a brownie or scout,” which also require “older fashioned costumes” and not the modern clothes worn by the scouting community, and marathons dressed as a chef, requiring “a chef’s hat to be worn and a large pot to be carried whereas a number of chefs do not wear hats at all.”

“I’ve certainly never seen a male nurse wearing a dress to work,” she said in an interview with Runner’s World, adding that most nurses at her hospital wear scrubs, tunics or trousers.

Hey, they giving you nothing but another challenge. You go out there next time and show them who's boss period. But still well done yeah, seriously good effort for spirit. 🙂

She’s a nurse, dressed as a 21st century nurse, ran the fastest...ergo, she’s the fastest nurse. Who needs Guinness’ approval anyway? Congratulations!

Major, all Effort .. Boooooooooo So wrong!

In fairness I was denied sexiest man alive because I'm not good looking.

Glad to see the Post covering the important stories.

Was this race in Saudi Arabia?

Guinness Book of record sets it's own rule. This is Guinness Book of Record rule. It has nothing to do with the race.

Read the full story. Before the race, she wrote Guinness Book about running in scrub. Guinness specifically told her, her record will not count if she ran in scrub. She decided to run anyway in scrub. Not until a rule is changed, it is a rule. Guinness in not at fault.

Do male nurses need to wear dresses too?

I guess rules only apply to some..

Pfft so what. She set her own record of fastest nurse in Scrubs then. Stop whining about EVERYTHING!

maybe they're referring to generic anime nurses?

What the f*ck? This is beyond ridiculous. How about we let people wear whatever the hell they want and get a grip?

Was it a requirement for the race? This sounds dumb AF.

She clearly missed the description which specifies fastest SEXY nurse

In other news, Palestinians just launched ~700 rockets into Israel. is proof positive that news is dead. NewsIsDead

What?

Uh, excuse me, what year is it?!

!!!

This CANNOT be true. Hello?

Good. Now move on

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