In honoring the departed former Olympics 3,00m silver medalist Ben Jipcho, Bungoma Governor Wycliffe Wangamati will be naming Kaptama High Altitude Training Camp in Mt Elgon in his name. The camp, which is under construction, is set to revive athletics in the region as well as honouring the legendary Jipcho who died in July and […]
Shoe4Africa CEO Toby Tanser, mourned the fallen 1968 1,500m Olympic silver medallist Ben Jipcho, who was buried in his Kisawai home, Trans Nzoia County on Friday as a peacemaker. In long Facebook post, Tanser wrote that Jipcho, the All Africa Games champion executed this during the 2007/08 post-election violence that rocked the country following the […]
Kenya’s first Olympic Games 3,000m steeplechase champion Amos Biwott was full of praise for the fallen hero and two time Olympic Games champion Benjamin Jipcho. The two time Commonwealth Games champion Jipcho died on Friday in an Eldoret hospital where he was undergoing treatment with his burial set for Friday in his Kisawai land in […]