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Mere seconds from completing the Scotiabank Toronto Waterfront Marathon on Sunday, a 27-year-old man collapsed and died just short of the finish line.

The half-marathon runner had just 300 metres to go when he dropped near the intersection of King and Wellington streets at 11:15 a.m. and never got up, race organizers say. He was transported to hospital “with no vital signs,” the race’s medical director Bruce Minnes said in an emailed statement, but not before a bystander rushed in to help by administering CPR with the help of the Marathon’s first responder units. Their efforts to revive him failed.

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“The race director [Alan Brookes] has since reached out to family of deceased and offered condolences,” marathon spokesperson Julia Wall-Clarke told the Post. “We now respect the families wish not to comment further.”

At the family’s request, the Marathon said it will not publicly identify the runner and there is no word on the cause of death or whether an autopsy is being ordered to determine the cause if it is at all unclear. The race has also not shared where the runner is from.