Team GB star Rose Harvey broke her LEG during the Olympic marathon in Paris but still finished the race in under three hours – and now she faces a race against time to get married!

Crew GB star Rose Harvey remarkably accomplished the ladies’s marathon on the Paris Olympics in beneath three hours regardless of struggling a fractured leg through the race.

The 31-year-old, who’s now on crutches, accomplished the race in a time of two:51:03, ending 78th on the leaderboard as Dutch distance runner Sifan Hassan took gold within the occasion. 

The British runner, whose private greatest time within the Marathon got here final yr when she posted a time of two:23:21 in Chicago, USA, can also be because of get married in three weeks to her fiance Charlie Thuillier.

The Olympian had began the race with some tightness in her hip, earlier than realising solely a few miles into the race that it was going to be ‘extremely painful.’

In reality, Harvey, who didn’t hand over, accomplished the race and was later recognized with a stress fracture in her femur.

Remarkably, the 31-year-old fractured her femur through the ladies’s marathon, however would proceed to complete the race in beneath three hours

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Posting an image of herself getting back from Paris on a pair of crutches, the British Olympian revealed that the expertise had left her ‘heartbroken’ however regardless of the ‘unbelievable ache’, was nonetheless decided to ‘put one foot in entrance of the opposite’ to complete the race.

‘A few miles in, I rapidly realised that wasn’t going to occur. The subsequent 24 miles had been a painful battle,’ the 31-year-old, wrote on her Instagram.

‘It seems I had stress fractured my femur,’ Harvey, a former company lawyer, added.

‘In another race, I might have stopped and there have been so many moments after I thought I couldn’t take one other step. The downhills had been hell.

‘However regardless of most of my race targets having slipped away, there was nonetheless a tiny a part of my Olympic dream that I may grasp onto – and that was ending the Olympic marathon. I couldn’t hand over. I stored telling myself to smile, absorb the vitality of the unbelievable crowds and simply put one foot in entrance of the opposite.’

‘It was heartbreaking,’ she added. ‘However being a part of the Olympics is one thing I’ll always remember and with the ability to share the race with so lots of my superb family and friends meant the world to me.’

She took to Instagram to put up an image of herself in crutches and acknowledged in a caption that she was ‘heartbroken’ at having sustained the harm

Harvey sensationally nonetheless completed 78th within the ladies’s marathon on Sunday, however stated the harm had been ‘extremely painful’

The previous company lawyer has had a meteoric rise over the previous 4 years, having been made redundant from her job within the Metropolis through the Covid-19 pandemic

‘In another race, I might have stopped and there have been so many moments after I thought I couldn’t take one other step,’ she stated 

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Harvey stated she was spurred on to complete the race by her soon-to-be husband and founding father of an ice-cream firm, Thuillier, who had stepped down as head of Oppo to assist her practice

After being made redundant, Harvey began getting into in triathlons and was later noticed by a coach

She can also be Britains fifth-fastest feminine marathon runner, having clocked up a file time on the Chicago marathon final yr 

Harvey additionally confirmed to the British information outlet that she is at present unable to place any weight by means of her leg.

Harvey had obtained remedy for her hip harm previous to the Paris marathon and had been suggested by medical doctors that competing within the race could possibly be a danger.

‘The Olympic vitality was form of what stored me going to that end line,’ the 31-year-old distance runner advised the BBC. She added that the although that the considered her fiance, Charlie, additionally pushed her onwards.

‘Each mile, I simply thought “proper, simply run to Charlie, run to after I can see him subsequent.”‘

With three weeks to go till their wedding ceremony, the previous company Lawyer admitted that she now has a brand new problem to beat.

‘My large problem is to hopefully be off crutches for the marriage however we’ll see,’ she advised the BBC. ‘It could be Charlie strolling down the aisle at this price!’

Thuillier can also be the founding father of hip ice cream model Oppo who’re identified for producing tasty low-calorie desserts. He had stepped down from his function on the firm to assist his fiancee practice. 

Harvey’s story is a outstanding one. Simply 4 years in the past through the Covid-19 pandemic, the 31-year-old, a monetary lawyer, had been made redundant from her job.

Dwelling in Clapham in south London on the time, she was handed three months of gardening depart and determined to coach for a triathlon.

‘I used to be nowhere close to considering that I may go to the subsequent Olympics. I nonetheless form of felt very new within the sport,’ Harvey stated on her meteoric rise

‘This was removed from the Olympics I dreamed of, however nonetheless an expertise of a lifetime,’ she added on Instagram.

‘I might gone from working all hours to actually having nothing to do, all this time at residence, and I realised that work had change into my whole life,’ she stated.

‘It pushed me to do one thing fairly radical, I had this superior alternative and wished to do one thing cool with it.’

She would subsequently return to work as a marketing consultant, however her fast race occasions had been rapidly seen by many within the operating business – with Harvey touchdown herself a sponsorship take care of athletic model PUMA.

‘I used to be nowhere close to considering that I may go to the subsequent Olympics. I nonetheless form of felt very new within the sport. It is fairly ruthless as you are solely pretty much as good as your final race,’ she had beforehand stated to The Instances.

Harvey was noticed by a coach, Phil Kissi, whereas coaching in Battersea Park. Impressed by her pure ability, he took her on and commenced to coach her 

Her meteoric rise to the 2024 Paris Olympics is an inspiring journey, with Harvey additionally being the fifth quickest British feminine marathon runner of all time following her time on the Chicago marathon after turning professional in 2022.

‘This was removed from the Olympics I dreamed of, however nonetheless an expertise of a lifetime,’ she added on Instagram.