Christy Turlington was a model marathoner yesterday, giving a head-turning performance while finishing in a more-than-respectable time.
The 42-year-old catwalker completed the New York City Marathon in 4 hours, 20 minutes and 47 seconds.
Short-track speed-skating star Apolo Anton Ohno also burned up the five-borough course, finishing in 3:25:14, while Ranger great Mark Messier completed it in 4:14:27.
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But Messier, 50, was so knocked out by the grueling race that he was quickly put in a wheelchair and taken to a medical tent to be briefly checked out before being released.
A 26-year-old runner wasn’t so lucky.
He collapsed in Harlem — just four miles from the finish line — and remained in critical condition in Mount Sinai Hospital’s cardiac-care unit last night.
The New York man fell at the 22-mile marker on Fifth Avenue between 117th and 118th streets shortly before 1 p.m., officials said.
There had been another, older man who fell around the same time along the stretch and who was recovering well at Mount Sinai, but witnesses said they were sure that it was the younger man they saw in such bad condition.
“He fell on his face on Fifth Avenue. He just dropped like he was shot,” said Harlem resident James White, 52, who was taking video of the race when the runner went down. “[Emergency crews] worked on him on Fifth [Avenue] while hundreds of runners passed him.”
Added bystander Carlos Arciniegas, 32, “When the runner was on the ground, he looked bad. He was blue in the face. He did not look good.
“After the medic gave him chest compressions, he started to look a better.”
Witness Carla Hinder, 38, didn’t think much of racers who showed little concern for their fallen fellow runner.
“Those marathon runners are a cold bunch. They almost ran over him while he was laying on the ground,’’ said the Harlem resident.
“The response was good from the EMTs, but it was like the [fallen runner] was a big inconvenience to the rest of them.”
Additional reporting by Josh Saul