Carruthers crawls to personal best

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Elite runner and NHS worker Hayley Carruthers collapses meters from the end of the 2019 London Marathon and crawls across the finish line on her hands and knees. Despite the dramatic moment, she set a personal best time of two hours, thirty-three minutes and fifty-nine seconds.

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