{"id":175724,"date":"2018-08-08T07:53:38","date_gmt":"2018-08-08T11:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=175724"},"modified":"2018-08-08T07:53:38","modified_gmt":"2018-08-08T11:53:38","slug":"kenyas-former-world-champ-nicholas-bett-killed-car-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/08\/08\/kenyas-former-world-champ-nicholas-bett-killed-car-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya’s former world champ Nicholas Bett killed in car crash"},"content":{"rendered":"
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FILE: Nicholas Bett (Left) (Photo<\/a> by filip bossuyt\/Flickr<\/a>, CC BY 2.0<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

NAIROBI,\u00a0Kenya\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Kenya’s Nicholas Bett, the 2015 world champion in the 400-meter hurdles, was killed in an early-morning car crash Wednesday in the country’s famed high-altitude training region, police and his coach said.<\/p>\n

Bett was 28 and had only just returned home from the African championships in Nigeria on Monday.<\/p>\n

Nandi County police commander Patrick Wambani said Bett was killed in the crash on the road between Eldoret and Kapsabet, two of\u00a0Kenya’s famed distance-running training towns in the Rift Valley region in the west of the country.<\/p>\n

Bett’s Toyota Prado SUV hit bumps in the road and rolled, his coach, Vincent Mumo, told The Associated Press. Mumo said the accident happened around 6 a.m.<\/p>\n

Bett won gold in the 400 hurdles at the 2015 world championships in Beijing, a breakthrough victory in that event for\u00a0Kenya, a powerhouse in middle- and long-distance events.<\/p>\n

He also won bronze medals at the African championships in 2014 in the 400 hurdles and 4×400-meter relay.<\/p>\n

Athletics\u00a0Kenya\u00a0said it sent condolences to Bett’s family. Bett’s twin brother, Aron, is also an athlete and was part of the Kenyan 4×400 team that won gold at last week’s African championships. Nicholas Bett didn’t run on that team.<\/p>\n

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