So inspiring!
A 29-year-old Kenyan marathon runner, Hyvon Ngetich,
took part in the Austin Marathon on Sunday. She was in the lead, and on
her way to winning the race, but all of a sudden, with just two-tenths
of a mile left to run, her body began to break down. She subsequently
collapsed, Huffington Post reports.
Unable
to walk or run, medical personnel offered Ngetich a wheelchair,
intending to take her off the tracks. Determined to finish the race, she
declined and proceeded to crawl to the finish line. She eventually
finished in third place.
Austin Marathon race director John Conley was so impressed by her determination, that he rewarded her by increasing her prize money to that of a second-place finisher.
Referring
to Ngetich as the toughest person on the planet, Conley said, “You ran
the bravest race and crawled the bravest crawl I have ever seen in my
life,” he told her. “You have earned much honor.”
Watch the video of Ngetich’s tenacious crawl to the finish line:
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