3 Runners Die In Detroit Marathon – In more bad news for Detroit, 3 runners competing in the Detroit Marathon collapsed and died on the course.
Michigan authorities will conduct autopsies today on the three men, all of whom died within a 16-minute span during yesterday’s Detroit marathon.
Just after 9am, a 36-year-old collapsed on the course after 11 miles, and a few minutes later a 65-year-old longtime runner dropped to the ground near the same spot.
At the same time, a younger runner collapsed after completing the half-marathon. Despite resuscitation efforts, all three competitors died.
“It would have been his third or fourth trip to Detroit,” said the son of the older runner, who had completed about 50 marathons. “He devoted his life to running cross country and track. I think he just liked the friendships, the sense of accomplishment. We’re still trying to piece things together.”
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October 19th, 2009 at 7:23 pm
When I heard the news of the 3 deaths of the marathon runners I was amazed, and it stroke me at the unlikelyhood of these three deaths being coincidence. They apparently occured in a fairly close time frame, all apparently early in the race and in conditions that were not adverse. My first thought was of the possibility that someone along the race course had intentionally handed out water that was toxic or poisoned. Stranger things have happened. I hope this is not the case