M\ufeffarathon world record holder Kelvin Kiptum, the young Kenyan who's taken the long-distance running world by storm in recent years, has died, according to multiple overseas reports. He was only 24.<\/p>\n
Kiptum and his coach\ufeff, Rwanda's Gervais Hakizimana, reportedly died in a traffic accident on Monday (AEDT).<\/p>\n
After twice clocking two hours and one minute for the marathon, in \ufeff2022 and 2023, Kiptum shattered Kenyan icon Eliud Kipchoge's world record by smashing the 2023 Chicago Marathon in 2:00:35. Kipchoge's world record was 2:01.09.<\/p>\n
Kiptum's breathtaking rise to marathon superstardom, and Kipchoge's sustained brilliance in his late 30s, had set up a highly anticipated Paris Olympics marathon.<\/p>\n
Kiptum, born in Kenya's Keiyo District in 1999, had established himself as the man most likely to become the first athlete to officially crack the two-hour mark. Kipchoge ran 1:59.40 in Vienna in 2019, but a raft of factors, including a rotating cast of pacemakers and laser lights beaming from a car ahead, meant his time didn't count as a world record.<\/p>\n
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