24-year-old was 1st person to run marathon in under 2 hours, 1 minute
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Kenyan athlete Kelvin Kip tummy, who holds the world record in the men’s marathon, died in a car crash in Kenya late Sunday, a fellow athlete who went to the hospital and saw the body said. (Tony Marimba/AFP via Getty Images)
Marathon world record-holder Kelvin Kip tummy, who was set to be a superstar of long-distance running, was killed along with his coach in a car crash in Kenya late Sunday.
Kip tummy was 24 and had the world record he set last year at the Chicago Marathon ratified by international track federation World Athletics just last week.
He was one of the most exciting prospects to emerge in road running in years, World Athletics said.
Kip tummy, who was USA, and his Rwandan coach Get AIS Hakim’s A were killed in the crash at around 11 p.m. Another USA athlete, Mikvah Chemosynthetic, confirmed their deaths to The Associated Press. She was at the hospital mortuary where the bodies were taken and had seen Lipton’s body, she said.
She struggled to speak while breaking down in tears.
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