Bett, 400 hurdles ex-world champ, dies in car crash
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Kenya’s former 400 meters hurdles world champion Nicholas Bett has died in a road accident aged 28, the country’s ministry of sports and heritage said yesterday.
Bett died in Nandi county, northwest Kenya, after his car hit bumps and rolled into a ditch. He had returned home from the Africa Championships in Nigeria on Tuesday. “Former 400m hurdles World Champion Nicholas Bett has died in a road accident... On behalf of the sporting fraternity and @moscakenya I convey my sincerest condolences to his family. Rest in peace,” Kenya sports cabinet secretary Rashid Echesa said on Twitter. The ministry of sports and heritage later retweeted the message from its official handle. Athletics Kenya also confirmed the news. Bett won the 400 hurdles at the 2015 world championships in Beijing to give Kenya its first gold medal at a distance shorter than 800. His twin brother Haron Koech is also a hurdler.
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