The famend Kenyan long-distance runner, Henry Rono, who famously set 4 world data inside 81 days handed away on the age of 72.
Athletics officers introduced the passing of Rono on Thursday.
Rono was a scholar at Washington State College in america when he blazed the observe with 4 world data in 1978 within the 3,000m, 5,000m and three,000m steeplechase disciplines.
He “was probably the greatest lengthy distance athletes Kenya has ever produced,” two-time Olympic gold medallist and Kenya’s former Olympic committee chief Kipchoge Keino advised AFP.
“It’s unlucky he didn’t compete within the 1980 Olympic video games, he would simply have come dwelling with no less than two gold medals.”
Athletics Kenya stated Rono had been hospitalised for the previous 10 days.
Rono, who at one time lived in a carpark within the US, returned to Kenya in 2019 after three a long time, in line with media stories.
“I used to be a child when Henry left the nation. I’m now 43,” his brother advised Kenya’s The Customary newspaper at the time.
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