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Kelvin Kiptum Cheruiyot (2 December 1999 – 11 February 2024) was a Kenyan long-distance runner who currently holds the marathon world record.As of 2024, he holds three of the seven fastest marathons in history, [5] and was ranked first among the world's men's marathon runners at the time of his death.
The Kenyan won the London Marathon last year and beat compatriot and legendary runner Eliud Kipchoge’s world record later in 2023 at the Chicago Marathon ... has died aged 24 in a road accident ...
Kiptum was the first man to run the marathon in under 2 hours, 1 minute in an official race when he set the world record of 2:00.35 in Chicago in October, beating the mark of fellow Kenyan and ...
Samuel Kamau Wanjiru (10 November 1986 – 15 May 2011) was a Kenyan long-distance runner who won the 2008 Beijing Olympics Marathon in an Olympic record time of 2:06:32; becoming the first Kenyan to win the Olympic gold in the marathon. He became the youngest gold medallist in the marathon since 1932.
Kelvin Kiptum, the current world record-holder in the marathon, died in a car accident in his native Kenya on Sunday, the world athletics federation confirmed.He was 24 years old. Kiptum's coach ...
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 ...
Marathon world record-holder Kelvin Kiptum and his coach died in a car crash in Kenya late Sunday, a fellow athlete who went to the hospital and saw Kiptum's body said. Kiptum and his Rwandan ...
Henry Rono (12 February 1952 – 15 February 2024) was a Kenyan track and field athlete who specialised in various long-distance running events. Although he never competed at the Olympics, Rono is remembered as one of the most prolific collegiate competitors in the history of track in the United States, as well as being the former record holder for the 3000 metres steeplechase for over a decade.