A runner in the Little Rock Marathon collapsed at the finish line and died Sunday, marathon officials said. It was a little more than three hours after the race began.
Adam Nickel, 27, of Madison, Wis., was pronounced dead late Sunday morning near the finish line of the race, which attracted about 9,000 entrants, according to a news release from race officials.
Nickel looked tired but kept walking after crossing the finish line, those at the scene said. And just when it looked like he was coming out of it, his head went limp and he and fell into the arms of race officials.
Emergency crews immediately began administering CPR.
Nickel was taken to the ambulance, where emergency officials kept working on him for about 30 minutes. He could not be revived and was pronounced dead.
"The members of the Little Rock Marathon Committee would like to offer our condolences and prayers to (Nickel's) family and friends," race director Gina Marchese-Pharis said in the news release.
Temperatures Sunday morning during the running of the race ranged from the high 50s during the early miles up to the mid-60s by late morning, according to the National Weather Service.
It wasn't known whether the temperatures played a role in Nickel's death.
At the Chicago Marathon on an unusually hot Oct. 8, one runner died and at least 49 others were hospitalized before organizers called off the race and shut down the second half of the course. Thousands weren't able to cross the finish line. The 88-degree heat was a record temperature for the marathon, held every fall in the Windy City.
It was later determined that a heart condition, not record-setting heat, killed the 35-year-old Michigan police officer.
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The Associated Press contributed to this story.