SAVANNAH, Ga. — Officials say a male runner has died while taking part in a marathon event in south Georgia.
Rock ‘n’ Roll Marathon medical director P.Z. Pearce said in a statement that the runner died Saturday at the fifth annual running of the event in Savannah. Officials say the runner was a 35-year-old man from Georgia but he wasn’t identified by name.
Authorities had no immediate report on a cause of death.
A marathon spokesman, Dan Cruz, says officials diverted about 1,100 runners at 9:45 a.m. Saturday from the 26.2-mile marathon to the half marathon course because of unseasonably warm temperatures.
