An gudanar da bikin jana’izar ne a filin wasan kwaikwayo da ke kauyen Chepkorio, inda Kiptum ya samu horo a yammacin Kenya.
Matarsa ta ce ita da Kiptum, wadanda suka yi auren gargajiya a shekarar 2017, sun shirya gudanar da “bikin aure mai launi” a watan Afrilu.
Kasancewarta ya tunatar da kowa cewa tauraro mai ladabi da tausasawa ya bar matarsa da ’ya’yansa biyu da iyayensa.
“Na yi baƙin ciki da ƙaunata,” in ji ta, “Na yi kuka har ba a ƙara ba. Zan yi kewar ku kuma ku ne ƙaunar rayuwata har abada. Har sai mun sake haduwa”.
Kenya gida ce ga ’yan wasan da suka fi fice a duniya kuma da yawa sun zo ne don nuna girmamawa.
Amos Kipruto, zakaran tseren Marathon na Landan a shekarar 2022, ya kasance mai daukar nauyi a hidimar.
“Hannun ba su da ƙarfi,” in ji shi.
“Zuciyata ta yi nauyi tana da zafi, kuma har yanzu ina jin fim ne … Dukkanmu abokan hamayya ne a cikin jinsi amma a cikin abota muna tare.”
Mai rike da tarihin duniya Faith Kipyegon ya bayyana Kiptum a matsayin “na musamman” kuma ya yi mamakin abin da zai iya kasancewa, yana mai cewa wannan ita ce shekarar da matashin mai tseren nesa zai karya shingen sa’o’i biyu a tseren gudun fanfalaki.
“Tun da ya zo… ya sake rubuta tarihi,” in ji wani tsohon dan wasa Paul Tergat ga BBC. “Yana da gadon da ba mu taɓa gani ba a wannan duniyar. Muna nan domin murnar abin da ya samu cikin kankanin lokaci.”
Kiptum ya yi gudun fanfalaki na farko a watan Disamba 2022 yana yin rikodin lokacin farko mafi sauri fiye da nisa. Sannan ya karya tarihin kwasa-kwasan da aka yi a London a bara, ya kuma karya tarihin duniya, wanda babban dan kasar Kenya Eliud Kipchoge ya yi a watan Oktoban 2023.
Gabaɗaya, ya yi gudun fanfalaki uku daga cikin mafi sauri bakwai na kowane lokaci a cikin ƙasa da shekara guda.
Da yake waiwaya kan wannan rikodin Lord Coe ya ce Kiptum ya kai “kololuwar nasara”.
Amma kuma ya kasance jarumin yankin da aka ce ya yi wa mutanen yankinsa da yawa.
“Ina jin zafi da kaduwa,” in ji Susan Jerotch mazaunin yankin.
“Da zai kasance babban taimako ga al’umma da iyali. Shi ne hasken mu. Ya ƙarfafa mutane da yawa.
“Mun kasance muna gaya wa yaran mu: ‘Ku zama kamar Kiptum.”
BBC/Ladan Nasidi.
