Madrid ( CNN ) -- A 24-year-old Australian man was gored in the thigh Friday , the second day of the annual running of the bulls in Pamplona , Spain . At least three other runners went to hospital with injuries , officials said . The Australian man was gored in the bullring at the end of the course . One bull became separated from the pack and came last , and alone , to the bull ring . Television images showed the man coming up behind the lone bull , which then turned on the man , who suddenly slipped and fell to the ground . He was then gored in the thigh . He was immediately tended to the bullring medical staff . A hospital report on all the injured is due later . Four runners went to the hospital with injuries Thursday on the first day of the running of the bulls . Commentators on Spanish state television TVE considered it a relatively safe start to the dangerous annual tradition in Pamplona , which has tallied thousands of injuries and 15 deaths since record-keeping began in 1924 , including the fatal goring of a Spanish man in 2009 . The run in Pamplona started 400 years ago and became popular worldwide after author Ernest Hemingway wrote about it in the 1920s in his book `` The Sun Also Rises , '' also published under the title `` Fiesta . '' It is now broadcast live across Spain by state television TVE , which pays Pamplona for exclusive rights , and positions some 20 cameras along the course . The daily run continues for eight days , through July 14 , at 8 a.m. ( 2 a.m . ET ) . It is the highlight of the San Fermin festival in Pamplona that attracts hundreds of thousands to the nonstop fiesta .
The Spanish man is gored in the bullring at the end of the course . Hundreds of thousands other runners are injured 400 years ago . At least three expected at nonstop festival in Madrid .