Aug 26, 2023; Budapest, Hungary; Rebecca Cheptegei (UGA) and Keira D'Amato (USA) run during the World Athletics Championships Budapest 23 women's marathon. / Kirby Lee-Imagn Images Rebecca Cheptegei, ...

An Olympic marathon runner, who police say was set on fire by her boyfriend over a land dispute, died Thursday at a Kenyan hospital where she was being treated. Rebecca Cheptegei was 33. The Moi ...

Ugandan Olympic marathoner Rebecca Cheptegei died from “full organ failure” just four days after a shocking and brutal assault at the hands of her boyfriend, Dickson Ndiema. Reports revealed that ...

Johannesburg — The man accused of setting his ex-girlfriend, Ugandan Olympic marathon runner Rebecca Cheptegei, on fire in an attack that proved fatal has died in a Kenyan hospital of his own burns ...

A man accused of dousing gasoline on an Ugandan Olympic athlete, causing her death days later, has succumbed to burns sustained in the attack, according to the Kenyan hospital where he was treated.

The Paris Games paid tribute to Ugandan Olympic runner Rebecca Cheptegei after her death on Thursday, days after allegedly being burned by her boyfriend. A eulogy was played at the 2024 Paralympics ...

A Ugandan athlete living in Kenya was set ablaze by her boyfriend and is currently receiving treatment for 75% burns, police said. Rebecca Cheptegei, a distance runner who finished 44th in the women's ...

Olympic runner Rebecca Cheptegei’s horrific death after being doused with petrol and set on fire by her boyfriend has again brought to the fore Kenya’s harrowing history of domestic violence against ...

Uganda and Tanzania play on December 27 but Kenya and Ethiopia are watching the Africa Cup of Nations from home ...

56:42 — this was the finishing time of a recent half-marathon competitor in Barcelona. As a result of of his sublime time, the runner shattered the half marathon world record. The individual who ...