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Marathon runner, 35, dies and 20-year-old in hospital after collapsing before London race
A 35-year-old man died in Sunday’s Movistar Madrid Half Marathon after collapsing due to cardiac arrest in the final straight. Another 20-year-old participant also suffered from cardiac arrest and remains in intensive care.
The former is understood to have been just 500 metres from the finish line on Paseo de Recoletos when he fell ill. Spanish news sources quoted a source from Emergencies Madrid, which said he was transported to La Paz hospital “without a pulse” and later died. According to reports, a nurse from Samur-Protección Civil at Cibeles attended to the 35-year-old at the scene in an unsuccessful attempt to revive him. Organisers behind the half marathon expressed their “deepest condolences” but did not provide more details on the deceased, with only three weeks to go before the London Marathon is held.
