Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon participant dies after race, 3rd death in event's history
A Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon participant died after a race on Dec 1, the third death in the 22-year history of the event.
The organiser posted on Facebook that the participant received immediate attention on site before being taken to Singapore General Hospital.
The 42.2km marathon and 21.1km half marathon were held on Dec 1 whereas the 10km and 5km races were held the morning earlier.
Runners started their races at the F1 Pit Building at Republic Boulevard with the finish line at Anderson Bridge at Fullerton Road.
Singaporean Soh Rui Yong won his fifth marathon national title with a time of 2hr 46min 5sec. Kenyan Geoffrey Yegon won the men's elite marathon with a time of 2hr 16min 6sec.
This year's event attracted over 55,000 runners, up from more than 44,000 in 2023.
The latest death is the third in the history of the Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon, which was first held in 2002.
In 2011, 22-year-old Malcolm Sng Wei Ren died after completing a half marathon. A coroner's court later determined that he had died from acute coronary insufficiency and had an abnormal coronary artery which had been previously undetected.
Five years later, John Gibson, a 28-year-old Briton living in Hong Kong, died after collapsing 1km from the finish line during the half marathon. A coroner's court found that he had suffered sudden cardiac death from the onset of arrhythmia, which is an irregular heartbeat.
