The marathon world document holder, Kelvin Kiptum, has died in a automotive accident, in line with Nation Africa. He was 24 years outdated.
Based on Nation, Kiptum was driving together with his coach, Rwanda’s Gervais Hakizimana, on Sunday evening in Kaptagat, Kenya, when he misplaced management of the automotive and crashed right into a tree.
“This was a self-involved accident the place Kiptum was driving his car with two passengers. Kiptum and Hakizimana died on the spot and the third individual was rushed to Racecourse Hospital in Eldoret,” mentioned native police.
On the 2023 Chicago Marathon, Kiptum made historical past by breaking the boys’s marathon world document in an astonishing time of two:00:35, changing into the primary man to run below the two:01 mark. He was coaching to problem the two-hour marathon barrier on the 2024 Rotterdam Marathon in April.
Kelvin Kiptum desires to interrupt the two-hour barrier in Rotterdam
Kiptum aspired to interrupt the two-hour marathon mark and signify Kenya within the marathon on the 2024 Paris Olympics.
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