ANDY Davies crossed the line in 35th place at today's European Athletics Championships marathon in Munich.
The Forden athlete's finishing time of 2:18:23 ensured Davies was the third Team GB athlete to cross the line.
The 42-year-old missed out on a place in the Welsh squad for the summer's Commonwealth Games in Birmingham but was consoled with a place in the Team GB squad for the Munich event as the busy summer of athletics continued.
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The men's marathon title went the way of host nation Germany as Richard Ringer produced an extraordinarily well-judged final burst past Ethiopian-born Israeli Maru Teferi for gold.
Ringer dug deep in front of thousands of onlookers to time 2:10.21, with Teferi taking silver, 2sec behind, and another Ethiopian-born Israeli, Gashau Ayale, claiming bronze a further 6sec adrift.
Davies' personal best and season best going into the race was 2:14:23.
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