Young Prodigy Named in Forbes’ ’30 Under 30′ List Collapses and Dies Hours After Setting Personal Best Marathon Time

A young man collapsed and died shortly after setting a personal best time in a marathon in Mesa, 🌵Arizona.

Pierre Lipton of Providence, 🏞️Rhode Island, was taken to a hospital, but was pronounced dead after the Feb. 4 event, according to the Boston Globe. He was 26.

Lipton’s father, an emergency medicine specialist, told the Globe that “he working diagnosis is he might have had some sudden electrolyte imbalance that caused arrhythmia.”

Lipton was remembered as a “brilliant” Brown University graduate who had co-founded the news company 1440 Media, named after both the year the printing press was invented and the number of minutes in a day.

The mission of the company was “to share fact-focused information with the world” with news that is as “unbiased as humanly possible.”

For that achievement, Lipton had been named to Forbes’