FAITH CHEPNGETICH KIPYEGON
She has been Nominated for the world athlete of the year. With Ksh 13 Million prize if she wins, Chepngetich is keeping the faith.
While other women cover their birth scars, Chepngetich proudly displays them as she wins race after race.
After all, giving birth is a proud moment.
She says mothers should be proud of the scars they get while giving life, or rather giving birth, the champion usually dedicates her medals to her daughter.
She is probably the best female athlete Kenyan has ever produced.
The Kenyan track queen is drop-dead gorgeous, an eye candy who stopped male athletes on their tracks at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in London and other Olympic games.
The little girl from far-flung Ndabibit village, who caught the world’s attention, running barefoot to finish fourth at the IAAF World Cross Country Championships in Bydgoszcz, Poland, in 2010 is now a track assassin.
Gorgeous in running kit and absolutely stunning in an evening gown, she is the perfect poster that would leave any pin-up model gasping in envy.
This beauty would no doubt cause a traffic jam on Moi Avenue if she crossed that road on a Sunday morning! Then meet her in her room at Keringet Athletics Camp in Nakuru County listening to a mix of Tanzania music super star, Diamond Platnumz – and you will confirm her unbridled love for Bongo Flava.
Faith has come so far since her maiden trip abroad on July 4, 2011 for the IAAF World Youth Championships in Lille, France.
She has come a long way from the clean-shaven Winners Girls High School student who, as a junior, raced her peers to the ground.
As a Form Two Student at Winner’s Girls High School in Keringet, Faith was among young athletes feted at the centenary celebrations of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) in Barcelona, Spain, in 2012.
All along Faith had wanted to improve on her father Samuel Koech’s exploits in athletics.
“My father was a good 800m and 1,500m run
