article_snippet: Ben Smith, pictured smiling with  girlfriend Jordan Ibsen  girlfriend Jordan Ibsen before the event, collapsed and died just minutes from finishing the Wilmslow Half Marathon .
article_snippet: Mr Smith, who regularly played sport, fell to the ground just a mile from the finish line of the Wilmslow Half Marathon in CheshireCheshire.
article_snippet: Mr Smith, a former Altrincham Grammar School for Boys pupil who later studied at Loughborough University, is understood to have been training in the run-up to the race on March 22.
article_snippet: Fitness fanatic Ben Smith had entered the Wilmslow Half Marathon in Cheshire (pictured) and was just a mile from the end when Fitness fanatic Ben Smith collapsed .
article_snippet: One runner who witnessed the tragedy said: ‘By the time I got to the 12-mile mark, fellow runners were already giving Fitness fanatic Ben Smith chest compressions and desperately trying to bring Fitness fanatic Ben Smith round.
highlights_snippet: Ben Smith died last week during the Wilmslow Half Marathon in Cheshire .
  
highlights_snippet: The 27-year-old had been just minutes from the end when Ben Smith collapsed .
  