Sun.Star Cebu

Crawling winner

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AUSTIN—A marathon runner was hailed for her determinat­ion after she collapsed while running a Texas marathon and crawled the final 300 yards to finish in third place. Twentynine-year-old Hyvon Ngetich of Kenya had broken from the women’s pack during the Austin Marathon and was leading late in the race. Race director John Conley says Ngetich began to stagger with about 600 yards to go and later fell. A medical team monitored her as she crawled toward the finish with thousands of spectators cheering her on. She finished in third place in the women’s division in 3:04:03.

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