NAIROBI, Kenya — Marathon world record-holder Kelvin Kiptum, who was set to be a superstar of long-distance running, was killed along with his coach in a car crash in Kenya late Sunday.

Nearly four months after setting the world record for the fastest marathon ever recorded, Kelvin Kiptum died at the age of 24 in a car crash, the National Olympic Committee of Kenya announced late ...

Watch: Kelvin Kiptum's final BBC interview Kiptum was ... It was Hakizimana who had convinced his trainee to move up from the half-marathon. According to Hakizimana, Kiptum needed time to warm ...

The athlete's generosity was not reserved just for his family - the London and Chicago marathon champion wanted to change the lives of other ambitious athletes. Kelvin Kiptum's colleagues say he ...

BBC Sport website & app from 08:30 The London Marathon elite men's field will be thinking of the late Kelvin Kiptum during Sunday's race, says Ethiopia's Kenenisa Bekele. World record-holder ...

The death of Kiptum just months before the Paris Olympics has shocked Kenya and the world of athletics, with his rival, the legendary marathon runner Eliud Kipchoge saying he was "deeply saddened".

I have been praying for this boy for many years. World men's marathon record holder Kelvin Kiptum. [Courtesy, Chicago Marathon] "I never knew that by failing to attain secondary education he could ...

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Kenyan marathon world record holder Kelvin Kiptum and his coach, Gervais Hakizimana, tragically passed away this Sunday in a traffic accident on the road connecting Eldoret to Kaptagat ...

Kenya's Kelvin Kiptum lunges to the finish line as he wins men's elite race at 2023 London Marathon in London. [Xinhua] World men's marathon record breaker Kelvin Kiptum's course record in ...

The No.1 Olympic sport has lost a number of valuable and much-loved coaches and world-class athletes plus administrators and ...