This isn’t the first time this has happened either.
“As well as Cheptegei, in 2021 Agnes Tirop, 2x world 10km bronze medallist stabbed to death.
In 2022, Damaris Mutua, who competed for Bahrain, was strangled.”
They were all successful female distance runners with less successful boyfriends, and that jealousy seemed to play a big part in their downfalls.