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Kelvin Kiptum’s Rwandan coach Gervais Hakizimana will be buried in Kigali on Wednesday, two days before the world marathon record holder in buried.
Gervais Hakizimana, the Rwandan coach who died in a road crash with world marathon record holder Kelvin Kiptum, will be laid to rest in Kigali on Wednesday.
Hakizimana’s body was flown to Kigali last Saturday with his family, led by his wife Joan Chelimo, accompanying it.
Family and friends will pay their last respects to the 37-year-old before he is interred back home with Athletics Kenya officials and a team from Kiptum’s management, Golazo, among those set to attend.
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“We shall have people who will be travelling to Rwanda to support the family on Wednesday during the burial including the Golazo CEO Bob Verbeeck,” Athletics Kenya Youth Development Director Barnabas Korir told the media last week.
“The two were really close and the discipline that Kiptum had was because the coach was always monitoring him and that is why he went ahead and broke the world record in the Chicago Marathon.”
The two, who became bosom buddies when the world marathon record holder was still a child, formed a strong bond before it was tragically cut short on February 13.
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Hakizimana was a former athlete who was born in Nyaruguru in the Northern Province of Rwanda.
He is Rwanda’s national record holder for the men’s 3000m steeplechase and won a number of races in France, among them the Lons-Le-Saunier 10km race in France in 2010 and the 2012 Pezenas National Meet in 2012.
Hakizimana, who first came to Kenya in 2006 when he was 18 to train for the 2007 World Cross Country Championship that was held in Mombasa, started coaching Kiptum in 2019, forming an unbreakable bond that was only separated by death.
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