Kelvin Kiptum shattered the world record at the Chicago Marathon, completing the grueling course at 2:00:35, setting a new mark, overtaking the previous record set by Eliud Kipchoge in Berlin the ...

Kiptum was 24 and had the world record ... “It was only earlier this week in Chicago, the place where Kelvin set his extraordinary marathon World Record, that I was able to officially ratify ...

who was with Kiptum in Chicago when he broke the world record, told the BBC's Focus on Africa programme. Watch: Kelvin Kiptum's final BBC interview Kiptum was born and raised in a village 37km ...

I have been praying for this boy for many years. World men's marathon record holder Kelvin Kiptum. [Courtesy, Chicago Marathon] "I never knew that by failing to attain secondary education he could ...

The athlete's generosity was not reserved just for his family - the London and Chicago marathon champion wanted to change the lives of other ambitious athletes. Kelvin Kiptum's colleagues say he ...

The men's marathon world record holder, Kenya's Kelvin Kiptum ... in just his third marathon, Kiptum took 34 seconds off the world record time in Chicago in his final race. He had already honed ...

The family of the late marathon world record holder Kelvin Kiptum and members of the Kenyan community have gathered in his rural village to give him his final send off. Kiptum died together with ...

Kenyan long-distance runner Kelvin Kiptum has set a new marathon world record by running the marathon distance of 42 km 195 meters in 2 hours and 35 seconds at a competition in Chicago.

From herding goats just a decade ago, runner Kelvin Kiptum seemed destined ... who last week had been in Chicago to officially ratify Kiptum's historic time. Kenyan marathon legend Eliud Kipchoge ...

Kenyan marathon world record holder Kelvin Kiptum and his coach, Gervais Hakizimana, tragically passed away this Sunday in a traffic accident on the road connecting Eldoret to Kaptagat ...