Kenyan long distance runner and World Athletics Championships bronze medallist, Agnes Jebet Tirop, has been found stabbed to death at her home, with her husband named by local police as a suspect in their murder investigation.
Athletics Kenya released a statement on Wednesday morning which reported that she was discovered in her house in Iten, a town in the west of the country where many athletes train.
Tom Makori, head of police for the area, said: “When [officers] got in the house, they found Tirop on the bed and there was a pool of blood on the floor.