{"id":63008,"date":"2024-02-22T05:40:08","date_gmt":"2024-02-22T05:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/kenya-marathon-star-kiptums-funeral-brought-forward-to-friday-the-express-tribune\/"},"modified":"2024-02-22T05:40:08","modified_gmt":"2024-02-22T05:40:08","slug":"kenya-marathon-star-kiptums-funeral-brought-forward-to-friday-the-express-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/kenya-marathon-star-kiptums-funeral-brought-forward-to-friday-the-express-tribune\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya marathon star Kiptum’s funeral brought forward to Friday | The Express Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The funeral for world marathon record-holder Kelvin Kiptum<\/a>, who was killed in a car crash, has been brought forward to Friday, Kenya’s athletics federation said.<\/p>\n

Kiptum’s death at the age of 24, just a few months after he smashed the world marathon record and before the Paris Olympics, shocked his home country and the world of athletics.<\/p>\n

“Kelvin will be laid to rest on Friday, 23rd February, 2024 at his home in Chepkorio Village, Elgeyo Marakwet,” Athletics Kenya said in a statement on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Last week, officials had said he would be buried on February 24, with the government promising a “heroic farewell” to the young marathon star.<\/p>\n

A Kenyan athletics official told AFP on Tuesday the funeral would be a “state function” with President William Ruto in attendance.<\/p>\n

It was brought forward because Ruto would be attending the funeral of Namibian president Hage Geingob at the weekend, the official added.<\/p>\n

Kiptum, a married father of two, was killed in a late-night car accident on February 11 near his home in Eldoret, the high-altitude training hub in the Rift Valley, western Kenya.<\/p>\n

His Rwandan coach Gervais Hakizimana, 36, also died in the accident while another passenger, a woman, was injured.<\/p>\n

Hakizimana will be laid to rest in Rwanda on Wednesday following a vigil at his family home on Tuesday, according a programme of service.<\/p>\n

Kiptum had burst onto the marathon scene only in 2022, and recorded three of the all-time seven fastest times for the event in the three marathons he competed in.<\/p>\n

He ran the Chicago marathon in October in two hours and 35 seconds, shattering the previous record set by his Kenyan rival Eliud Kipchoge by 34 seconds.<\/p>\n

He was the favourite to take gold at the Paris Olympics, where he was expected to go head to head with Kipchoge for the first time.<\/p>\n

“The only way to honour my brother Kiptum is by winning the 2024 Olympic marathon and bringing the victory home,” Kipchoge posted on X last week.<\/p>\n

Kiptum was the latest in a number of Kenyan athletes to have lost their lives in recent years. Lawmakers have called for better support and protection for the country’s sporting talent.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NAIROBI: The funeral for world marathon record-holder Kelvin Kiptum, who was killed in a car crash, has been brought forward to Friday, Kenya’s athletics federation said. Kiptum’s death at the age of 24, just a few months after he smashed the world marathon record and before the Paris Olympics, shocked his home country and the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63009,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i.tribune.com.pk\/media\/images\/Kelvin-Kiptum1708516207-0\/Kelvin-Kiptum1708516207-0.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63008\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}