{"id":144812,"date":"2021-10-15T21:45:13","date_gmt":"2021-10-15T21:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=144812"},"modified":"2021-10-16T12:00:44","modified_gmt":"2021-10-16T12:00:44","slug":"suspect-arrested-for-olympians-stabbing-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=144812","title":{"rendered":"Suspect arrested for Olympian's stabbing death"},"content":{"rendered":"

Police in Kenya have arrested the husband of long-distance runner Agnes Tirop<\/a> after she was stabbed to death this week.<\/p>\n

"Suspected killer husband of Agnes Tirop, the long distance runner heroine recently murdered at her home, has been arrested," the National Police Service-Kenya said in a statement on Twitter on Friday.<\/p>\n

"The suspect, one Ibrahim Kipkemoi Rotich, who has been on the run with police on hot trail, was nabbed in Mombasa by diligent police detectives," read the statement.<\/p>\n

The NPS said Rotich is being held at Changamwe Police Station and was "awaiting transfer to Iten where he's expected to face prosecution.<\/p>\n

"The NPS added that Rotich was arrested along with another suspect, Silas Chilla Chellile, and that both individuals were helping the police with their investigations.<\/p>\n

Rotich was arrested on Thursday in Changamwe, Mombasa county, as he "tried to flee a neighboring country to evade justice," the Directorate of Criminal Investigations-Kenya said in a statement on Twitter.<\/p>\n

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"Earlier in the day [Thursday] at around noon, Rotich had rammed his getaway vehicle into a lorry at Athi River, along Mombasa road, as he desperately escaped out dragnet," said the DCI.<\/p>\n

Tirop won bronze medals in the 10,000m at the 2017 and 2019 World Championships and finished 4th in the 5,000m at the Tokyo Games.<\/p>\n

Last month, the 25-year-old made history by taking 28 seconds off the long-standing, women-only world record for 10km at the Adizero Road To Records event in Germany.<\/p>\n

Tirop finished in a time of 30:01, breaking the previous record of 30:29, which had been set by Moroccan Asmae Leghzaoui in 2002.<\/p>\n

Following the race, she said, "I'm so happy to have broken the world record. I felt the pace was good. The course was very good, too."<\/p>\n

At the 2015 IAAF World Cross Country Championships, Tirop became the second-youngest ever gold medallist in the women's race after Zola Budd.<\/p>\n

Athletics Kenya said the country had "lost a jewel who was one of the fastest-rising athletics giants on the international stage, thanks to her eye-catching performances."<\/p>\n

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