by admin | Sep 4, 2024 | Representation, SEW
A Ugandan athlete living in Kenya was attacked and set on fire by her boyfriend and is receiving treatment for burns on 75% of her body, police said. Rebecca Cheptegei, a distance runner who finished at the 44th position in the 2024 Paris Olympics, was attacked in her...
by admin | Aug 28, 2023 | Representation, SEW
Kenya’s Faith Kipyegon underlined her status as one of the all-time greats of distance running by sealing a historic 1500m/5000m double at the World Athletics Championships in Budapest on Saturday. After claiming a third world 1500m title on Tuesday, Kipyegon...
by admin | Dec 8, 2022 | Representation, SEW
In the darkest moments of her toughest training sessions, professional marathon runner Mary Ngugi likes to lean on her trackside audience for motivation. That’s not necessarily her coach — or her training partners — but a much younger group of...
by admin | Jul 19, 2022 | Representation, SEW
In 2015, Jenny Simpson, arguably the greatest U.S. female miler in history, slapped a label on a budding runner from Kenya named Faith Kipyegon. “I call her the sniper,” Simpson said then, three months after the then-21-year-old Kipyegon won her first global 1500m...
by admin | Apr 19, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Peres Jepchirchir, a 28-year-old runner from Kenya, won the women’s race in the 126th running of the Boston Marathon on Monday and made history in the process. She took home the win with an unofficial time of 2:21:02 and is now the first athlete to ever win an...
by admin | Jan 25, 2022 | Representation, SEW
While the superstars of the main tour inevitably attract the majority of the attention at this year’s Australian Open, two young women have made history in the junior tournament. Iran’s Meshkat al-Zahra Safi and Kenya’s Angella Okutoyi have both reached historic...
by admin | Oct 26, 2021 | Representation, SEW
The long-distance Kenyan runner Agnes Jebet Tirop was having a very good year. She competed in the Tokyo Olympics in August, set a new world record in the women’s 10-kilometer race in Germany in September and was widely seen as a rising star in her country’s...
by admin | Oct 14, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Police in Kenya named the husband of long-distance runner Agnes Tirop as a “suspect” in her death after the 25-year-old was stabbed to death on Wednesday. Keiyo North Sub County Police Commander Tom Makori told AFP that Tirop’s husband Emmanuel...
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