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'Dead' Sydney runner 'lucky to be alive again'

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Jamie Donaldson recovering in hospital. (Nine News)
Jamie Donaldson is now recovering in hospital. (Nine News)
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A 31-year-old Sydney man who had a heart attack and died for more than five minutes after running a half marathon at the weekend says he is lucky to have collapsed near paramedics.

Jamie Donaldson made it to the finish line of the Sydney Running Festival at the Opera House after running 21km yesterday before collapsing.

"I had the good fortune of collapsing at the finish line — if it had of been somewhere else I probably wouldn't be around at all," he told Nine News.

Startling video shows paramedics working desperately to bring the father-of-two back to life with a defibrillator.

On the third attempt, his heart started pumping again.

Mr Donaldson is fit and healthy, and this was the third long distance run he had taken part in this year.

But on this occasion he had underestimated the impacts of heat and dehydration.

"It sounds to me like I was bordering on the end," he said.

"I've been told I was dead for six minutes."

 

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