Olympic runner Rebecca Cheptegei gets set on fire by her boyfriend

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Olympic runner Rebecca Cheptegei gets set on fire by her boyfriend

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.

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Olympic runner Rebecca Cheptegei gets set on fire by her boyfriend​

By
Associated Press



Published Sep. 3, 2024, 7:04 a.m. ET









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 house in the western Trans Nzoia County.
Trans Nzoia County Police Commander Jeremiah ole Kosiom said Monday that Cheptegei’s boyfriend, Dickson Ndiema, bought a jerrican of petrol, poured it on her and set her ablaze during a disagreement Sunday.
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Rebecca Cheptegei competes in the Discovery 10 km road race in Kapchorwa, Uganda, on Jan. 20, 2023. AP
Ndiema also sustained burn wounds, and the two are receiving specialized treatment at the Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital in Eldoret city.

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Cheptegei’s parents said their daughter bought land in Trans Nzoia to be near the county’s many athletic training centers.
A report filed by the local chief states that the couple was heard fighting over the land where the house was built before the fire started.
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Cheptegei (C) applies an ice bag on her head as she competes in the women’s marathon of the athletics event at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games in Paris on Aug. 11, 2024. AFP via Getty Images
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Cheptegei (C) crosses the Szechenyi Chain Bridge in the Women’s Marathon during day eight of the World Athletics Championships Budapest 2023 on Aug. 26, 2023, in Budapest, Hungary. China News Service via Getty Images



In 2023, Ugandan Olympic runner and steeplechaser Benjamin Kiplagat was found dead with stab wounds.


In 2022, Kenyan-born Bahraini athlete Damaris Muthee was found dead, with a postmortem report stating that she was strangled.