15 Facts About Nicholas Bett

Nicholas Kiplagat Bett was a Kenyan track and field athlete who competed in the 400 metres hurdles.

Nicholas Bett was a world champion in the event, having won in 2015, and a two-time bronze medallist at the African Championships in Athletics.

Nicholas Bett died in a road accident in Kenya at the age of 28.

Nicholas Bett's first outing at national level was in 2010, when he was a Kenyan junior finalist.

Nicholas Bett made his breakthrough nationally at senior level with a run of 50.39 seconds to place third at the Kenyan Athletics Championships in 2011.

Nicholas Bett missed most of the 2012 season but returned in 2013 with runner-up finishes at both the national championships and world trials.

At the 2015 World Athletics Championships in Beijing, Nicholas Bett achieved his biggest result, winning the 400 metres hurdles event with a time of 47.79 seconds.

Nicholas Bett's win was Kenya's first in the history of the World Championships, for an event shorter than 800 metres.

Nicholas Bett's Beijing run was the fastest time for the distance in the whole of the 2015 season.

Nicholas Bett had a poor start to the 2016 season, with a season's best time of 49.31 going into the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.

However, Nicholas Bett was still considered one of the favourites for the 400 metres hurdles event, following his 2015 World Championships win.

Nicholas Bett eventually finished last in the heat, but was disqualified anyway, and failed to reach the semifinal.

Nicholas Bett's twin brother, Aron Koech, is a 400 metres hurdler.

Nicholas Bett died in a road accident near the town of Lessos, in Nandi County, Kenya, in the early morning of 8 August 2018.

Nicholas Bett had arrived back from the 2018 African Championships in Athletics in Nigeria two days earlier, and was driving along the Kapsabet to Eldoret road on his way back to Nairobi.