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The medals for Sunday's Ironman 70.3 Syracuse triathlon, left, display Rochester's skyline, right.

(Skyline photo by Creative Commons)

SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- Since when did downtown Syracuse have an arched suspension bridge over a river?

Or a skyscraper with a top that looks like the point of a pencil?

Anyone who won a medal in Sunday's Ironman 70.3 Syracuse triathlon might be wondering if they were in the right place.

The medals read, "Ironman 70.3 Syracuse," but the skyline displayed on them screams Rochester.

The scene depicts an arched suspension bridge over the Genesee River, which runs through downtown Rochester. The buildings that make up the skyline on the medal match a photo of Rochester's.

A spokesman for the Ironman did not have an immediate explanation for the error this morning.

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The race started with a 1.2-mile swim in Jamesville Reservoir, then on to a 56-mile bike course that wound through Syracuse's Highland Forest and parts of Onondaga, Madison and Cortland counties, and ended with 13.1-mile run in and out of Jamesville Beach County Park.

It went nowhere near Rochester.

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