A female athlete from Sierra Leone who went missing after finishing 20th in the London Marathon has been found 24 hours later.
Mami Konneh Lahun, 24, was last seen after finishing the 26.2 mile course yesterday and is due to return home today.
Police put out an appeal after Miss Lahun failed to return to her temporary accommodation in Greenwich yesterday.
The athlete, who is Sierra Leone's fastest-ever 5,000 metre and 10,000 metre runner, last year won her country's marathon and in neighbouring Liberia.
She is the first woman from Sierra Leone to have represented the country at the London Marathon.
Scotland Yard said she arrived in Britain a week ago to prepare for the marathon, and finished in just over 2 hours 46 minutes.
Detectives looking into her disappearance revealed she had no known links to the UK and no money or mobile phone.
A Scotland Yard spokesman said: 'She has today been found safe and well, having returned to the address in Greenwich'.
It came after the London Olympics in 2012, where dozens of athletes and coaches disappeared or claimed asylum after the Games.
The Mail revealed that seventy claimed political asylum after the Olympics and more than have were given refugee status.Source-Dailym
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