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ELDORET, Kenya (Reuters) -The former partner of Ugandan athlete Rebecca Cheptegei, who is accused of killing her by dousing her in petrol and setting her on fire, has died from burns sustained ...
Ugandan marathon runner Rebecca Cheptegei, who competed in the 2024 Paris Olympics, ... Cheptegei was the third elite female athlete killed in Kenya since October 2021.
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 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]
Globally, a woman is killed by someone in her own family every 11 minutes, according to a 2023 UN Women study. Cheptegei's distraught father, Joseph Cheptegei, told Reuters that the family was ...
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A Ugandan athlete living in Kenya was attacked and set on fire by her boyfriend and is receiving treatment for burns on 75% of her body, police said. Rebecca Cheptegei, a distance runner who finished at the 44th position in the 2024 Paris Olympics, was attacked in her house in the western Trans Nzoia County.
Gooden pled guilty to an April 2004 charge that he sped away from a traffic stop and an unrelated March 2005 charge of hitting his girlfriend. He was given 45 days in prison for the latter charge but credited for time served. [243] On April 5, 2006, he was re-sentenced to a year and a day in prison for violating his probation by using cocaine ...
Johannesburg — Ugandan athletics officials said Thursday that Olympic marathon runner Rebecca Cheptegei had died in a hospital in neighboring Kenya where she was being treated for burns to 80% ...