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Kelvin Kiptum celebrates his Chicago Marathon victory in world-record time with executive race director Carey Pinkowski on Oct. 8, 2023. (Eileen T. Meslar/baiduhai)

Family dreams and hopes ‘shattered’ after Chicago Marathon winner’s death in Kenya

February 12, 2024 at 4:53 p.m.

Kelvin Kiptum’s father told a Kenyan TV network that his only child had promised — a day before his death — to build him a house and buy him a...

Kelvin Kiptum celebrates his Chicago Marathon world record victory, 2:00:35, in Chicago’s Grant Park on Oct. 8, 2023. (Eileen T. Meslar/baiduhai)

Chicago Marathon winner and world record holder Kelvin Kiptum, 24, dies in a car crash in Kenya

February 12, 2024 at 10:05 a.m.

Marathon world record-holder Kelvin Kiptum, who won the Chicago Marathon in October, died in a car crash in Kenya late Sunday. He was 24.