Kipyegon Bett

Kipyegon Bett (1 February 1998 – 6 October 2024) was a Kenyan middle-distance runner specialising in the 800 metres. Bett won the 800 metres at the 2016 World U20 Championships in Bydgoszcz, Poland. He also came second in the 800 metres at the 2015 World Youth Championships in Cali, Colombia. In the second meet of the 2017 IAAF Diamond League in Shanghai, Bett won the 800 m event in 1:44.70.

Bett won the bronze medal in the 800 metres at the 2017 World Championships held in London.

He tested positive for EPO in 2018 and received a four-year ban in November of the same year.

He was the brother of Purity Kirui, a two-time Commonwealth Games 3000 m Steeplechase medallist. on 6 October 2024, while receiving treatment at a hospital in Bomet County after being ill for over a month. He was 26.

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