Athletes plead for modern training facilities as they mourn Kiptum
Athletes during a burial service of the late Kelvin Kiptum, the World Marathon Record Holder held at Chepkorio Showground in Keiyo South, Elgeyo Marakwet County on February 23, 2024. Kiptum died together with his coach Gervais Hakizimana following a road crash at Flax on the Eldoret-Kaptagat-Eldama Ravine road.
Former world javelin champion Julius Yego thanked the government for building Kiptum a house in his new home - where he was buried on Friday - within record time
Yego made another appeal for sports facilities, pleading with President William Ruto to launch a sports development project at Chepkorio in Elgeyo Marakwet County, where Kiptum had been training together with his training mates
Sports Cabinet Secretary Ababu Namwamba said that athletes have always lifted Kenya’s flag high and there is need to develop good training facilities that will help them prepare for various global events
As the world mourned the passing on of world marathon record holder Kelvin Kiptum, the embarrassment of talent rolling off the North Rift production line are still waiting for first class training facilities.
During the requiem mass for Kiptum in Chepkorio, Elgeyo Marakwet County, on Friday, the government promised, for the umpteenth time, the completion of the region’s sporting facilities which has been under renovation for decades now.
