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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 ...
Ugandan marathon runner Rebecca Cheptegei, who competed in the 2024 Paris Olympics, has died from burns four days after police say her former boyfriend poured gasoline on her and set her on fire ...
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 ...
In the same year, she set a Ugandan national record of 2:22:47 in the marathon event, and won the postponed 2021 World Mountain and Trail Running Championships in Chiang Mai, Thailand. [24] She ended the year with a 4th place finish in the ADNOC Abu Dhabi Marathon. [23] This earned her a place to represent Uganda in the 2024 Summer Olympics in ...
KAMPALA (Reuters) -Ugandan Olympic runner Rebecca Cheptegei, who died after allegedly being doused in petrol and set alight by her former partner, was buried Saturday with full military honours at ...
The Ugandan marathon runner had competed in the women's marathon at the 2024 Paris Olympics, finishing in 44th place with a season's best time of 2:32:14, just a month before the fatal attack.
Rebecca Cheptegei, the Marathon runner who represented team Uganda at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games, has died. The tragedy comes just four days after her boyfriend set her on fire after the couple ...
Pre's Rock, a memorial to Steve Prefontaine who died after finishing 4th in the 1972 Olympic 5000 m Memorial to Bronisław Malinowski, who died one year after winning an Olympic gold medal Plaque commemorating Ryan Shay, who died while running the 2008 United States Olympic trials marathon. A number of athletics competitors have died during ...