Former world junior cross country champion David Chelule dies at 49
Athletics Kenya said the Kenyan long-distance runner died on November 6. Chelule won the 1996 World Cross Country junior title and finished fifth in the 5,000m at the Sydney 2000 Olympics.
Former Kenyan long-distance runner David Chelule has died aged 49. Athletics Kenya (AK) said he died on November 6. The federation announced his death on Monday. Neither AK nor Capital FM gave a cause of death. Chelule was born on July 7, 1977, according to AK. His breakthrough came in 1996. That year he won gold in the Under-20 8km race at the World Cross Country Championships in Stellenbosch, South Africa. He also took silver in the men's 5,000m at the then IAAF World Junior Championships in Sydney, Capital FM reported. He returned to Sydney for the 2000 Olympic Games and finished fifth in the 5,000m, AK said. A year earlier, in 1999, he had won the national 10,000m title in 28:37.5. Capital FM listed his…
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