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The funeral for Kenya’s world marathon record-holder Kelvin Kiptum, who died in a car crash at the weekend, will be held on February 24, an athletics federation official told AFP yesterday.
“We have settled on February 24 following consultations with the family and the government which have taken over all the funeral arrangements and protocol,” Athletics Kenya executive committee member Barnabas Korir said, a day after visiting the bereaved family.
Kiptum, a 24-year-old father of two, and his Rwandan coach Gervais Hakizimana were killed in a car accident on Sunday night in the Eldoret area, the heartland of Kenyan distance running in the west of the country.
His death, just four months after he broke the world marathon record, shocked Kenya and the world of athletics. – SuperSport.
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