This runner's epic finish line fail has become a beautiful meme

This runner's epic finish line fail has become a beautiful meme

Not many people can say they've had the glory of celebrating a European Cross Country Championship win in front of a crowd of cheering people.

Not many people can say they've become a meme after face-planting in the mud, either.

Well, Jimmy Gressier can say both. Over the weekend, the runner claimed victory in the men's under-23, rounding off an epic race off with an attempted knee slide through the mud.

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As you can tell from the following video, it didn't quite go to plan.

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Let's get another angle on that:

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It wasn't long before the moment was well on its way to meme territory.

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To be fair, a successful knee slide would have been far less memorable.

H/T Twitter Moments.

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