{"id":150837,"date":"2024-02-13T12:10:08","date_gmt":"2024-02-13T12:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/02\/13\/marathon-record-holder-dies-in-accident\/"},"modified":"2024-02-13T12:10:08","modified_gmt":"2024-02-13T12:10:08","slug":"marathon-record-holder-dies-in-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/02\/13\/marathon-record-holder-dies-in-accident\/","title":{"rendered":"Marathon Record Holder Dies In Accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Kelvin Kiptum<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The men\u2019s marathon world record holder, Kenya\u2019s Kelvin Kiptum, 24, has died in a road accident in his home country.<\/p>\n<p>He was killed alongside his coach, Rwanda\u2019s Gervais Hakizimana, in a car on a road in western Kenya on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Kiptum made a breakthrough in 2023 as a rival to compatriot Eliud Kipchoge \u2013 one of the greatest marathon runners.<\/p>\n<p>And it was in Chicago last October that Kiptum bettered Kipchoge\u2019s achievement, clocking the 26.1 miles (42km) in two hours and 35 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>The two athletes had been named in Kenya\u2019s provisional marathon team for the Paris Olympics later this year.<\/p>\n<p>Paying tribute to Kiptum, Kenyan Sports Minister Ababu Namwamba wrote on X: \u201cDevastatingly sickening!! Kenya has lost a special gem. Lost for words.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kenya\u2019s opposition leader and former prime minister, Raila Odinga, said the country had lost \u201ca true hero\u201d and was mourning \u201ca remarkable individual\u2026 and Kenyan athletics icon\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Sebastian Coe, the president of World Athletics, said Kiptum was \u201can incredible athlete leaving an incredible legacy, we will miss him dearly\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The road accident happened at about 23:00 local time (20:00 GMT) on Sunday, police were quoted as saying by the AFP news agency.<\/p>\n<p>Giving further details of the crash, police said Kiptum was the driver, and the vehicle \u201clost control and rolled, killing the two on the spot\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesman quoted by AFP added that the third passenger \u2013 who was female \u2013 had been injured and \u201crushed to hospital\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Just last week, his team announced that he would attempt to run the distance in under two hours at the Rotterdam marathon \u2013 a feat that has never been achieved in open competition.<\/p>\n<p>The rise to fame for the father-of-two had been rapid \u2013 he only ran his first full marathon in 2022.<\/p>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 2 -->\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kelvin Kiptum \u00a0 The men\u2019s marathon world record holder, Kenya\u2019s Kelvin Kiptum, 24, has died in a road accident in his home country. He was killed alongside his coach, Rwanda\u2019s Gervais Hakizimana, in a car on a road in western Kenya on Sunday. Kiptum made a breakthrough in 2023 as a rival to compatriot Eliud [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":150838,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Marathon Record Holder Dies In Accident - 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\/2024\/02\/13\/marathon-record-holder-dies-in-accident\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Marathon Record Holder Dies In Accident - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Kelvin Kiptum \u00a0 The men\u2019s marathon world record holder, Kenya\u2019s Kelvin Kiptum, 24, has died in a road accident in his home country. 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