This is as amazing as it is hard to watch
Elite runner Hyvon Ngetich was leading the Austin Marathon on Sunday when her body gave up on her and she collapsed within sight of the finish.
Medical staff and race volunteers rushed to help her with a wheelchair but she refused their help and bravely continued towards the line on her hands and knees as the crowd rallied behind her.
The Kenyan is visibly in distress, her knees bloodied and her eyes fixed ahead of her, but she waves off assistance and completes the excruciating crawl to the finish in third place.
Ngetich was congratulated by race director John Conley, who told her she ‘ran the bravest race and crawled the bravest crawl I have ever seen in my life’.
For her part, Ngetich has no recollection of the final part of the race or her crawl to the line, saying: ‘Running, always, you have to keep going, going. You have to die running.’
Let’s hope she doesn’t take that quite so literally in future.
