The Kenyan runner died at a hospital on Sunday, Oct. 6, his family confirmed to multiple outlets Anna Lazarus Caplan is a writer-reporter for PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2022.

Kipyegon Bett, a former junior world champion runner, died after battling a short illness. The 26-year-old won the 800-meter title in 2016 and earned a bronze medal at a track event in London a ...

By then she was known as "Mum Bett," and had a young daughter known as "Little Bett." Her husband had been killed while fighting in the Revolutionary War. One day, the mistress angrily tried to ...

FORMER junior world 800m champion Kipyegon Bett has passed away aged 26. The Kenyan died following a short illness. The runner had been in and out of hospital with a liver problem, his sister shared.

Former world under-20 athletics champion Kipyegon Bett has died aged 26 in Bomet, Kenya, following a short illness. The 800m specialist won his junior world title in 2016 and then took bronze at ...

Funeral services for Betty and Russell DeHart will be at 12:00 pm, Saturday, September 21, 2024 in the Benjamin Franklin Chapel of Forest Lawn Memory Gardens, Greenwood. The family will receive ...

Kenyan former world 800 metres bronze medallist Kipyegon Bett died on Sunday from kidney and liver failure at the age of 26, his family said. Bett was one of Kenya's most promising middle distance ...

Former junior world champion runner Kipyegon Bett has died following a short illness. He was 26. The Kenyan athlete — who won the 800 meter title in 2016 — died in a hospital in Bomet ...

A promising middle distance runner he was banned by AIU in August 2018 for four years Kipyegon Bett of Kenya reacts after victory in the men’s 800 meter during the Shanghai Diamond League ...