Paris Olympic marathoner Rebecca Cheptegei of Uganda used to be attacked in her house in Trans Nzoia County, Kenya on Sunday, BBC Information reported. The runner’s Kenyan boyfriend reportedly doused her in gas from a jerry can all over an issue sooner than surroundings her on fireplace. Cheptegei sustained critical burns overlaying 75 consistent with cent of her frame and used to be taken to medical institution, the place she stays in crucial situation.
Cheptegei’s attacker, Dickson Ndiema Marangach, used to be additionally injured through the flames and used to be hospitalized. The couple used to be reportedly overheard arguing out of doors the home simply sooner than the assault happened. The athlete and her assailant had been rescued from the fireplace through neighbours, and each burn sufferers are receiving remedy on the Moi Educating and Referral Health facility in Eldoret Town, Kenya.
We be apologetic about to announce that our athlete Rebecca Cheptegei, who competed on the Olympics has suffered serious accidents and is hospitalized at Moi Educating and Referral Health facility in Eldoret. This follows an incident involving her Kenyan boyfriend pouring petrol and surroundings fireplace on her %.twitter.com/rgnWvgTpkb
— UGANDA ATHLETICS FEDERATION🇺🇬🇺🇬 UAF (@UgaAthletics2) September 3, 2024
Cheptegei, 33, returned to her house ultimate month after a Forty fourth-place end within the girls’s marathon on the Paris Olympics with a time of two:32:14. She owns a space within the Trans Nzoia County house to profit from Kenya’s athletic amenities whilst coaching. The Ugandan runner gained the Global Mountain and Path Operating Championships in Thailand in 2o22.
Tragically, this isn’t the primary reported case of home attack in opposition to an elite athlete in East Africa–in 2021, Kenya’s two-time 10,000m global championship bronze medallist, Agnes Tirop, used to be discovered stabbed to demise through her husband at her house in Iten, Kenya.
Tirop’s husband, Emmanuel Ibrahim Kipleting, used to be arrested after fleeing Iten through automobile, and used to be discovered loads of kilometres away. The alleged assailant is predicted to be charged with Tirop’s homicide, regardless of denying the accusations. Tirop used to be 25.