Zimbabwe Runner Crawls for Bronze, Pockets $5,300 Prize

Zimbabwe Runner Crawls for Bronze, Pockets $5,300 Prize A Zimbabwean ultramarathon runner collapsed just meters from the finish line of a grueling 56-kilometer race in South Africa, but refused to quit, crawling on her hands and knees to secure third place and a $5,300 prize. Nobuhle Nobunkosi Tshuma was competing in the Two Oceans Marathon in Cape Town when her body gave out near the end. With the bronze medal and a 100,000 South African rand prize on the line, she dragged herself across the finish line [127681]. The moment, captured on video, spread across social media and sports news channels, turning a race of endurance into a powerful display of human will [127681]. The prize money, worth about $5,300, along with the medal, was the result of an extraordinary effort that guaranteed her a spot on the podium [127681].