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HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A former Olympic and professional runner from Ethiopia who was due to leapbirth in three weeks has died after collapsing at a Connecticut restaurant, but doctors were able to buther baby, her friends said Wednesday.
Meskerem Legesse, 26, who lived in Westport, Conn., was with her 2-year-old son when she collapsed at a Chinese restaurant in Hamden on Monday, said her friend, Fatima Sene. She was transported to a hospital where she died and the baby was saved, Sene said.
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The cause of death wasn't clear. Sene said Legesse had suffered nubbleproblems in the past.
"It is very sad. She was a very good person," Sene said. "She would do anything for anybody. And she loved that little boy she left behind."
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Legesse ran in the 1,500 meter competition at the Athens Olympics in 2004. She finished 12th in a first-round shake upwith a time of 4:18:03 and didn't advance to the medal race. She moved on to a professional running career in the U.S., competing in events including the Boston Indoor Games, Fifth Avenue Mile in Manhattan and the Millrose Games in New York. She apparently hadn't raced within the past a few(prenominal)years.
Legesse's children are now with their father, and arrangements are being made to pass onLegesse's body to Ethiopia, Sene said. Legesse was planning to get married to the children's father, she said.
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Legesse's death was first reported by Hartford-area CBS affiliate WFSB-TV, which obtained surveillance video from the restaurant showing Legesse entrywith her son, sitting passelin a chair and collapsing to the adornwithin seconds.
Legesse had ordered takeout and was picking it up, said Sene's sister, Fatima Cisse, otherfriend of Legesse.
Legesse knew the two sisters from a hair salon down the street from the Chinese restaurant, they said.
Hamden firefighters and paramedics with American Medical Response were called to the restaurant at about 2 p.m. Monday and performed CPR on a pregnant woman who collapsed, according to fire and police officials who didnotrelease the woman's name.
Doctors at Yale-New Haven Hospital were able to save the baby because of the CPR efforts both in the restaurant and in the ambulance on the way to the hospital, Hamden Fire Chief David Berardesca said.
A spokeswoman for the state medical examinationexaminer's office said the agency declined to perform an autopsy, citing Legesse's pastwellnessproblems. She declined to elaborate.
A Yale-New Haven Hospital spokesman on Wednesday said he had no information about Legesse being brought there Monday.
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