00:00It was a month of one of the most tragic feminicides in the past few years in the world of
00:06sports.
00:07Rebecca Chaptegay was murdered by her husband, Dixon Endyama,
00:12who was killed with gasoline days after she competed in the Olympics in Paris 2024.
00:19The success was the world of athleticism and the memory of the Ugandesa continues.
00:24The 11th of August Rebecca Chaptegay accomplished one of the great objectives of her life.
00:30Correr in the women's marathon of the Olympic Games.
00:3415 years after having started her career in Uganda, the sportist made history for her country.
00:41A Paris 2024 Chaptegay, in fact, reached after establishing the national record in Uganda in the marathon.
00:49This during the World Championship in Budapest,
00:53in which she was in position 14.
00:55This career gave her the cup to the Olympic Games, that day in which she changed history.
01:00The Olympics for the Ugandesa were the recompense of a career longeva,
01:05in which she collected titles like the gold medal in the mountain world.
01:09And the trail running in Chiang Mai returned to her home in Kenya in September,
01:15after having been in the 44th of the Olympic Games.
01:19And just for those days, it was when her ex-pareja killed her in front of her children.
01:25According to the police report, the 1st of September Rebecca Chaptegay returned to her home,
01:31after having attended the church with her children.
01:34Dixon Endiema la esperaba in the house, which had rumped in a way of illegal.
01:39Both began a hot hot discussion.
01:42According to the witnesses, it was by a dispute of terrain,
01:45which escalated against the atentity of her family.
01:48In a moment of the battle, Endiema le roció gasolina y la prendió en fuego,
01:53quemándole así el 80% de su cuerpo.
01:56The athlete was trasladada de urgencia al hospital.
02:00Allí murió 4 days después, víctima de la falla total de sus órganos.
02:05The feminicida Dixon Endiema también murió casi una semana después,
02:11as a consequence of the quemaduras that suffered during the attack.
02:14El padre de la víctima, Joseph Chaptegay, denunció que meses antes la deportista había pedido la intervención de las autoridades
02:22estatales,
02:23por la violencia y los maltratos de su pareja.
02:26Sin embargo, nadie hizo nada para proteger la vida de la deportista.
02:30Y con total impunidad, Dixon Endiema mató a Rebeca Chaptegay.
02:35No es el primer caso de esta naturaleza.
02:37Y de hecho, en los últimos años ya se han lanzado varias alertas sobre los feminicidios contra atletas en Kenia.
02:44Hay dos casos que son bastante conocidos.
02:47En agosto de 2021, por ejemplo, la fondista keniana Agnes Tirov, medallista de bronce en los Olímpicos de Tokio 2020,
02:56fue apuñalada por su esposo y entrenador Ibrahim Rotich, esto meses después de haber conseguido el podio olímpico.
03:04Un año más tarde, Damaris Mutua, medallista de bronce en los 10.000 metros de los Juegos Olímpicos de la
03:12Juventud en Singapur,
03:13fue encontrada muerta en la casa de su pareja.
03:16Según la autopsia, Mutua murió por asfixia.
03:20Su novio es el principal sospechoso en un caso que todavía no se ha resuelto.
03:26Los casos de Tirov y Mutua conmocionaron al mundo.
03:29No obstante, el asesinato de Chaptegay es un nuevo llamado de atención.
03:34El recuerdo de un atleta brillante seguirá siempre presente.
03:38Rebeca Chaptegay, un atleta que soñó con competir en los Juegos Olímpicos y que cumplió su anhelo.
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