Nairobi — Kenyan runner Joan Jepngetich, who died in a street crash in Illinois on Thursday, is to be airlifted dwelling for burial.
An internet fundraiser to collate assets to airlift her physique dwelling has to date raised $4,392 (roughly Ksh 567,666).
The 24-year-old Kapsabet native handed away when the Mercedes Benz she was travelling in veered off the freeway close to Barstow space in Galesberg and crashed right into a tree earlier than catching hearth.
Jepngetich was travelling with two others — a 22-year outdated feminine who was driving and 22-year-old male — and was pronounced lifeless on the spot.
She initially joined the Iowa Central Group Faculty on a scholarship in August final yr earlier than shifting to the Carl Sandburg Faculty in Galesberg, Illinois the place she was additionally coaching to be a nurse.
Jepngetich was an everyday for the school on the the Nationwide Collegiate Athletics Affiliation (NCAA) occasions and boasted a private finest of two:39.49 within the girls’s 800m, 5:16.60 (1500m), and 19:29.46 (5000m).
Her final competitors was NJCAA Division II Cross Nation Championships on November 11 the place she completed sixty fourth within the girls’s race, clocking 20:32.2.
A month earlier than, Jepngetich spurred the Sandburg girls’s cross nation staff to the Arrowhead Convention Cross Nation title in Kishwaukee after ending second in 22:03.3.
In first place was Linda Jepkogei Koech who clocked 21:19.3 as Sharon Yego got here third in 22:04.4.
Jepngetich’s funeral service is ready for Saturday (January 4) on the Bethel Baptist Church in St Galesberg.
