{"id":424852,"date":"2011-05-16T14:06:06","date_gmt":"2011-05-16T14:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/05\/16\/kenya-police-investigate-death-of-olympic-champion-wanjiru\/"},"modified":"2011-05-16T14:06:06","modified_gmt":"2011-05-16T14:06:06","slug":"kenya-police-investigate-death-of-olympic-champion-wanjiru","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/16\/kenya-police-investigate-death-of-olympic-champion-wanjiru\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Police Investigate Death of Olympic Champion Wanjiru"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"26.0114593866\">\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.english.rfi.fr\/africa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/img\/static\/publishers\/minibanners\/rfi-logo-en.jpg\" alt=\"Radio France Internationale (Paris)\" title=\"Visit Radio France Internationale (Paris)\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>16 May 2011<\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>Reigning Olympic marathon champion, Kenya&#8217;s Sammy Wanjiru, has died after falling from the second floor of his Rift Valley home in Nyahururu after an argument with his wife. Police discovered his body lying on the verandah with a broken skull.<\/p>\n<p>Police say the theory surrounding his death, which came from his wife and watchman, is that Wanjiru came home drunk from a bar with another woman. When his wife asked him about the woman, they started to argue and he fell off the balcony and died.<\/p>\n<p>Police are also investing whether the runner may have jumped rather than fell.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are two theories we are investigating,&#8221; said local police chief Jasper Ombati. &#8220;We cannot conclusively say he committed suicide, or that he jumped down and died accidentially.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Over the past few months, Wanjiru appeared to have had marital problems and was involved in a serious car crash in January.<\/p>\n<p>He was due to appear before a Nyahururu court next Monday accused of possession of an illegal firearm.<\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old won the gold medal in Beijing in 2008 in an Olympic record time, becoming Kenya&#8217;s first marathon champion.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.english.rfi.fr\/africa\/20110516-police-investigate-death-olympic-champion-wanjiru\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read or Listen to this story on the RFI website<\/a><\/strong><\/em>  <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<fieldset>\n<legend align=\"center\"><strong>More News on allAfrica.com<\/strong><\/legend>\n<\/fieldset>\n<p>AllAfrica &#8211; All the Time<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>More:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201105161881.html\" title=\"Kenya: Police Investigate Death of Olympic Champion Wanjiru\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kenya: Police Investigate Death of Olympic Champion Wanjiru<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 16 May 2011 Reigning Olympic marathon champion, Kenya&#8217;s Sammy Wanjiru, has died after falling from the second floor of his Rift Valley home in Nyahururu after an argument with his wife. Police discovered his body lying on the verandah with a broken skull. Police say the theory surrounding his death, which came from his wife and watchman, is that Wanjiru came home drunk from a bar with another woman<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":400434,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-424852","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Kenya: Police Investigate Death of Olympic Champion Wanjiru - 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-police-investigate-death-of-olympic-champion-wanjiru\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Kenya: Police Investigate Death of Olympic Champion Wanjiru - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"16 May 2011 Reigning Olympic marathon champion, Kenya&#039;s Sammy Wanjiru, has died after falling from the second floor of his Rift Valley home in Nyahururu after an argument with his wife. 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