Olympic athlete from Uganda, Rebecca Cheptegei, was murdered in Kenya, after being set on fire by her former partner during a dispute over land
However, this isn’t an isolated incident as there are other instances of athletes being killed, especially in Kenya
In 2021, shortly after she finished fourth in the women’s 5000m final at the Tokyo Olympics, two-time World Championships bronze medallist Agnes Tirop was stabbed to death by her husband
Shortly after Tirop’s tragic demise, another Kenyan sprinter, Edith Muthoni, was hacked to death by her boyfriend in the country’s Kerugoya town, a part of the Kirinyaga County
In 2022, Bahrain’s Damaris Muthee Mutua, a sprinter who was born in Kenya, was found dead with her boyfriend being the prime suspect in the murder