Runner dies after receiving emergency treatment at Nashville race, organizers say

A marathon runner successful the St. Jude Rock ‘n’ Roll Running Series successful Nashville this play has died aft receiving exigency attraction astatine the race

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- A runner successful the St. Jude Rock ‘n’ Roll Running Series successful Nashville connected Saturday has died aft receiving exigency attraction astatine the race, organizers said Sunday.

The Rock ‘n’ Roll Running Series said the runner received urgent aesculapian attraction by an on-site squad earlier being transported to a hospital, wherever the subordinate died. Organizers did not instantly merchandise the individuality of the runner.

“We admit the aesculapian unit who worked rapidly to enactment the participant,” the connection from organizers said. “We stock our top sympathies with the household and friends of the contention participant, and we volition proceed to connection them our enactment arsenic they spell done this precise hard time.”

The contention events that took spot Saturday included marathon, half-marathon, 10K and 5K distances. More than 23,000 runners were registered for the weekend's races.