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The former partner of the Olympic marathon Rebecca Cheptegei has reportedly died from the burns he sustained while allegedly dousing the Ugandan athlete in gasoline.. Dickson Ndiema, died on the ...
Rebecca Cheptegei, a Ugandan marathon runner who competed in the Paris Olympics last month, has died days after she was burned by her boyfriend, the country’s athletics federation confirmed on X ...
Rebecca Cheptegei was born on the Kenyan side of the Kenya–Uganda border on 22 February 1991 [1] [2] [3] to Joseph and Agnes Cheptegei [4] and was the second of 13 siblings. [5] Her ancestral village was Bukwo in Uganda. She later moved to the village of Chepkum in Kenya [1] and bought property there to be closer to athletic training centres. [6]
She began her career in 2010 and competed in 1,500 meters, 10,000 meters, half-marathons and marathons. She represented Uganda in the 2011 and 2013 World Cross Championships in Punta Umbria and ...
Kiplagat's 2009 season was disrupted by malaria and typhoid, but he still managed to further lower the Ugandan national record to 8:12.98. He was again affected by malaria, and a boil on his leg, in 2010, but again lowered the Ugandan record to 8:03.81. He finished 4th at the 2010 Commonwealth Games. [1]
NAIROBI (Reuters) -Ugandan Olympic marathon runner Rebecca Cheptegei died on Thursday, days after she was doused in petrol and set on fire by her boyfriend in Kenya, in the latest attack on female ...
In a tribute to the murdered Ugandan athlete, Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo announced that a sports venue in the city would be named after her Image credits: UgaAthletics2 Image credits: UgaAthletics2
Cheptegei is the third Ugandan female elite athlete since 2021 to have died in an attack from an intimate partner. Up-and-coming runner Agnes Tirop, only 25, was found dead in her home in 2021 ...