The long-distance runner's former partner allegedly doused her with gasoline before setting her on fire, authorities in Kenya said Anna Lazarus Caplan is a writer-reporter for PEOPLE. She has been ...

Ugandan Olympic marathoner Rebecca Cheptegei died from “full organ failure” just four days after a shocking and brutal assault at the hands of her boyfriend, Dickson Ndiema. Reports revealed that ...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Ugandan Olympic athlete Rebecca Cheptegei has died at a Kenyan hospital where she was being treated after 80% of her body was burned in an attack by her partner, a hospital ...

Ugandan long-distance runner Rebecca Cheptegei has died four days after being doused in petrol and set on fire by her former partner, authorities have announced. Cheptegei -- who had been receiving ...

Dickson Ndiema has died after suffering 30 percent burns to his body in the attack on Rebecca Cheptegei, according to reports STR/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock; Dickson Ndiema ...

Rebecca Cheptegei, a 33-year-old Ugandan Olympic marathoner who competed in Paris, died just days after being burned in an attack by her partner. Authorities said her partner, Dickson Ndiema, bought a ...

A man who allegedly poured gasoline on Ugandan Olympic athlete Rebecca Cheptegei and set her on fire, killing her, has also died of burns, according to the hospital where the two had been treated.

Thousands of mourners in Uganda paid respects to Rebecca Cheptegei, the Olympic athlete who died last week in Kenya after her partner set her on fire, at a military funeral in a remote town near the ...

Ethiopia’s Letesenbet Gidey demolished the women's 5,000 metres world record by more than four seconds on Wednesday at the Valencia World Record Day, crossing the line in 14 minutes 6.62 seconds.