Who was athlete Rebecca Cheptegei

Athlete Rebecca Cheptegei was aged 33 years and has been an athlete for over 15 years.

Her last major event was the recent Paris Olympics where she participated in the Marathon race.

Cheptegei is described by her family as a very outgoing person who loved athletics.

Her father Mzee Joseph Cheptegei says she started running while very young.

“She was quite passionate about running and aimed to succeed,” Mzee Cheptegei says.

She was married with two children in Uganda but separated from her husband after which she bought land in Trans Nzoia where she usually trained.

It is in Trans Nzoia where she met her alleged boyfriend Dickson Ndiema and lived with him before they differed over the land she had bought.

Mzee Cheptegei said the deceased was her second born child.

She passed on at 5.30 at the Moi Referral Hospital ICU where she had been admitted for three days after the attack by her alleged boyfriend.