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The runner who stole their hearts

Dramatic finish

DESERVING plaudits and rewards went to the record breakers at last week’s Comrades Marathon, but the runner who made it home, in spite of being stricken by injury and pain, minutes after the 12-hour cut off time, stole the hearts of those who watched his dramatic finish.

Bent and falling over to the right, Henri Zermatten, 62, remained on his feet by clutching onto the fencing along the final few hundred metres to the Comrades finish line, at Durban's

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