--- title: "Beer Mile" Race Winner Disqualified for Not Drinking Enough description: The Canadian runner set a record for a Vancouver "Beer Mile" — but was ultimately disqualified due to not finishing all of his beer. canonical: https://time.com/5372281/beer-mile-disqualified/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-08-20T20:47:23.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:54:24.574Z og:title: "Beer Mile" Race Winner Disqualified for Not Drinking Enough og:description: The runner finished the race in record time — but didn't quite down enough beer og:url: https://time.com/5372281/beer-mile-disqualified/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blted8bc6137860f90f/69893825ab6d7766a46b3726/corey-bellemore-beer-mile.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2870 og:image:height: 1614 og:image:alt: TRACK & FIELD: JUL 07 Canadian Championships og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: "Beer Mile" Race Winner Disqualified for Not Drinking Enough twitter:description: The runner finished the race in record time — but didn't quite down enough beer twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blted8bc6137860f90f/69893825ab6d7766a46b3726/corey-bellemore-beer-mile.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Record-Setting Runner Disqualified for Not Drinking Enough Beer > Sponsored content. 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World beer mile record holder Corey Bellemore runs in the 1500m semi-final at the 2018 Athletics Canada National Track and Field Championships on July 07, 2018. Icon Sportswire—Icon Sportswire via Getty Images  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Aug 20, 2018 8:47 PM UTC Corey Bellemore thought he had won last weekend’s’s [2018 Beer Mile World Classic](http://www.beermile.com/display/event%5F151287) in Vancouver, B.C. with a shockingly fast time of 4 minutes and 24 seconds. Unfortunately for Bellemore, however, who holds a 2017 record in running the fastest [“beer mile”](http://time.com/money/4429181/free-beer-beer-mile/) in the world — that means running a mile with four stops to chug four beers — judges ruled that he didn’t quite consume enough liquor to keep his winning title this time around. According to [_Runner’s Wold_](https://www.runnersworld.com/news/a22717675/corey-bellemore-beer-mile-world-classic-dq/), Bellemore and two other runners ultimately left behind “more than the permitted amount” of beer. One presumes they were so busy trying to keep up the pace that in their haste to chug the beer, they didn’t quite complete the task at hand. Bellemore was disqualified by just half an ounce, according to the Beer Mile Twitter account. His response on social media? “Never rush through life,” he tweeted. “Better luck next time!” Ultimately, runner-up Dale Clutterbuck claimed the winning title this time around. But we can all take Bellemore’s [previous advice](https://t.co/E6Bva9aWnj), shared after he broke the 2017 beer mile world record: “chug fast, burp and breathe.” Just don’t chug _too_ fast. Beer miles, Runner’s World notes, are fairly secretive events, since organizers have to avoid restrictive open container laws. Runners chug a 12-ounce can or bottle of beer between four laps. In the case of vomiting, extra laps are prescribed as penalties. Not a sport for the faint-hearted. > [](https://twitter.com/beermile/status/1029367110693265409) > [](https://twitter.com/CoreyBellemore/status/1030495586095706112) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5372281/beer-mile-disqualified/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5372281/beer-mile-disqualified/"},"headline":"Record-Setting Runner Disqualified for Not Drinking Enough Beer","datePublished":"2018-08-20T20:47:23.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:54:24.574Z","description":"Finish your beer.","url":"https://time.com/5372281/beer-mile-disqualified/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Food & Drink","Sports"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blted8bc6137860f90f/69893825ab6d7766a46b3726/corey-bellemore-beer-mile.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Raisa Bruner","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blted8bc6137860f90f/69893825ab6d7766a46b3726/corey-bellemore-beer-mile.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"TRACK & FIELD: JUL 07 Canadian Championships","caption":"TRACK & FIELD: JUL 07 Canadian Championships","creditText":"Icon Sportswire—Icon Sportswire via Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5372281/beer-mile-disqualified/","name":"Record-Setting Runner Disqualified for Not Drinking Enough Beer"}}]}] ```