Posted: December 14, 2006

Athletics: Woman Finishes Marathon On Broken Leg

From David Monti

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A woman from Califorina finished last Sunday's Honolulu Marathon despite having a broken femur, race organizers announced today. Rene Hopfinger from Newbury Park first felt some leg pain about 16 miles into the race. "She developed a pain in her right leg that she took to be muscle pain (which the doctors speculate was a stress fracture)," wrote her husband, Tim McPhail, in an e-mail message to the Honolulu Marathon Association which was obtained by Race Results Weekly. In the final meters of the race, her thigh bone broke completely, but Hopfinger didn't know that until getting a diagnosis later at St. Francis Mecial Center in Honolulu. "She underwent surgery Monday morning to place a metal plate on the femur," McPhail continued. "She is out of the hospital and recovering and will be traveling back to Los Angeles the end of this week." Hopfinger's time was 6:13:47. Comment on this story. Subscribe to the Runner's Web Weekly Digest

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