In total, 21 of the 172 participants died, including some of China’s best-known marathon champions. Zhang is the lone survivor of the six athletes who were leading the race on a remote stretch of track when extreme weather caused freezing rain and a sudden dive in temperature.Ī local herdsman dragged Zhang into a cave, which shielded him from succumbing to the hypothermia that killed his closest competitors. When Zhang Xiaotao set off last weekend on a 100-kilometer (62-mile) ultra-marathon through the jagged mountains of northwestern China, he didn’t know he was embarking on one of the deadliest journeys in the country’s sporting history.
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