Half marathon runner dies after collapsing at the finish line

A Cardiff Half Marathon runner who collapsed astatine the decorativeness enactment has died successful what organisers person described arsenic a ‘terrible tragedy’.

The runner, who has not been named, was rushed to infirmary but aboriginal pronounced dormant aft completing the UK’s 2nd largest fractional marathon.

The fashionable lawsuit is completed by astir 30,000 radical each year, taking connected the 13.1 mile people that starts and ends successful the Cardiff metropolis centre.

The way goes past fashionable tourer spots specified arsenic Cardiff Castle, the Cardiff Bay barrage and Roath Park Lake, and is favoured by runners for its level course.

A spokesperson for Run 4 Wales said: ‘This is simply a unspeakable calamity and our deepest sympathies spell retired to the runner’s family. 

‘In respect for the participant’s household astatine this hard time, nary further details volition beryllium released.’

Run 4 Wales antecedently said they person worked to rise consciousness of chartless bosom conditions, aft 2 runners suffered cardiac apprehension wrong minutes of crossing the decorativeness enactment successful 2018.

In 2019, 35-year-old assembly planner Nicholas Beckley besides died aft completing the fractional marathon.

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