A 24-year-old woman is dead, she was saved by a passer-by. Tragedy during the marathon

Rachel Apa ran this distance for the first time. She fell in Central Park, a few kilometers before the finish line. Its launch was related to a charity campaign to raise funds to fight Parkinson's disease. In this way, she wanted to honor the memory of her grandfather who died of this disease in 2022.

The devastated father of the young runner said that his daughter had never had any fitness problems and was in very good health. She played on the varsity field hockey team and had just started her master's degree at Charleston Southern.

After Apa's fall on the route, one of the passers-by started performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation, which was then undertaken by medical services, but it was ineffective.

New York Marathon winners

The prestigious marathon was won by Swede Andreas Almgren, making his debut in this event, and Kenyan Cheila Chepkirui - for the second time in her career (she triumphed in 2024).

The Swede achieved a time of 2:06.01, the third best result in the history of the New York Marathon. Almgren's time is the third best result in the 50-year history of this marathon. The Scandinavian runner became the first marathon runner to win as a debutant since Ethiopian Gebre Gebremariam won in 2010.

It was the 50th edition of the marathon, the route of which runs through all five boroughs of New York. In 1976, during the seventh edition of the race, just over 2,000 competitors took part, including only 88 women. On Sunday, as many as 61,146 out of 61,529 runners from 153 countries completed the competition, of which almost half (almost 29,000) were women.