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Runner stampeded by deer: ‘I’m lucky it wasn’t bigger’ (video)

Justin DeLuzio will forever remember his last NCAA cross-country race.

The senior from Gwynedd Mercy University in Pennsylvania has become a viral name after video surfaced of a deer violently crashing into him from the side mid-race.

It happened at the NCAA Division III Mideast Regional Championships, around the 2km mark of an 8km race.

“Someone yelled, and I caught a glimpse of the deer, and I … I just didn’t expect it,” DeLuzio said, according to FoxSports.com. “It just flipped me end over end.

“I sat there in disbelief, I wasn’t quite sure what had happened.