The Kenyan handed away in hospital, the place he’d been receiving remedy for an sickness
Kipyegon Bett, the previous world under-20 800m champion, has sadly handed away on the age of 26.
The Kenyan, who additionally secured a bronze medal over two laps on the 2017 World Championships in London, was receiving remedy for an sickness in hospital.
In keeping with Nation, Bett was vomiting blood attributable to injury to a few of his inside organs.
Purity Kirui, who’s Bett’s sister and the 2014 Commonwealth 3000m steeplechase champion, advised the outlet: “He’d been unwell for a few month and had been handled at AIC Litein Hospital as an outpatient. On Saturday (October 5), his situation deteriorated and was referred to Tenwek Hospital for additional exams.”
Bett began competing internationally in 2015 and claimed respective gold and silver 800m medals at that 12 months’s African and World Youth Championships.
The next season he grew to become world under-20 800m champion in Bydgoszcz, clocking 1:44.95 to take the crown.
Kipyegon Bett [R] at London 2017 (Getty)
Bett additionally recorded his private 800m better of 1:43.76 in 2016, with solely world record-holder David Rudisha forward of him at ISTAF Berlin.
It was subsequently no shock to see Bett make a worldwide senior podium in 2017.
In a pulsating race on the World Championships, Bett clocked 1:45.21 and positioned third behind France’s Pierre-Ambroise Bosse and Poland’s Adam Kszczot.
That 12 months he additionally received the 800m on the Shanghai Diamond League, operating 1:44.70 to win the occasion in China.
Nevertheless, Bett examined optimistic for EPO in 2018 and subsequently acquired a four-year ban.
He solely ever raced as soon as after it ended and that was within the 400m hurdles two years in the past.
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