{"id":424672,"date":"2011-05-16T04:49:15","date_gmt":"2011-05-16T04:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/05\/16\/kenya-marathon-star-wanjiru-dies\/"},"modified":"2011-05-16T04:49:15","modified_gmt":"2011-05-16T04:49:15","slug":"kenya-marathon-star-wanjiru-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/16\/kenya-marathon-star-wanjiru-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya marathon star Wanjiru dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div readability=\"39.8584474886\"><span><span>16 May 2011<\/span> <span>Last updated at<\/span> <span>00:49 ET<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Kenyan Olympic marathon champion Samuel &#8220;Sammy&#8221; Wanjiru has died after falling from a balcony at his home in the Rift Valley town of Nyahururu, say police.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said Mr Wanjiru had suffered internal injuries and they were trying to establish whether he had leapt deliberately or fallen by accident.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Wanjiru was the first Kenyan to win Olympic gold in the marathon.<\/p>\n<p>But last December, he was charged with threatening to kill his wife and illegal possession of an AK-47 firearm.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>View original post here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/go\/rss\/int\/news\/-\/news\/world-africa-13408162\" title=\"Kenya marathon star Wanjiru dies\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kenya marathon star Wanjiru dies<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 16 May 2011 Last updated at 00:49 ET Kenyan Olympic marathon champion Samuel &#8220;Sammy&#8221; Wanjiru has died after falling from a balcony at his home in the Rift Valley town of Nyahururu, say police. Officials said Mr Wanjiru had suffered internal injuries and they were trying to establish whether he had leapt deliberately or fallen by accident. Mr Wanjiru was the first Kenyan to win Olympic gold in the marathon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-424672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Kenya marathon star Wanjiru dies - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/16\/kenya-marathon-star-wanjiru-dies\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Kenya marathon star Wanjiru dies - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"16 May 2011 Last updated at 00:49 ET Kenyan Olympic marathon champion Samuel &quot;Sammy&quot; Wanjiru has died after falling from a balcony at his home in the Rift Valley town of Nyahururu, say police. 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