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Tuesday 24 April 2018

London Marathon: Chef Dies


A 29-year-old professional chef Matt Campbell has been reported to have died after he collapsed during the 2018 London marathon race.

The cause of death has not been revealed. Campbell was a famous chef the television reality show Masterchef: The Professionals last year.
He was running for The Brathay Trust, a national charity, that provides life changing programmes for children and young people, and in memory of his father, Martin, who died in the summer of 2016.

Organisers joined his family in paying tributes to their "inspirational son and brother", a keen marathon runner and who had completed the Manchester Marathon in under three hours earlier this month.
London was his second marathon in a fortnight.

The event took place amid temperatures of 23.2 degrees Celsius, a record high for the London Marathon.

Those in the mass participation races, a staple of the event, experienced the warmest weather as they took to the course later than athletes in the elite competitions.

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