In history, the 2022 circumcision ceremony in the Bugisu region is going to be inaugurated on 13th August without the cultural leader [ Umukuka]  after Masaba cultural institution going, for now two years without a gazetted cultural leader.

The nuptials come 17 years after they called off their first engagement.

Running at the Hawyard Field in Eugene in the US, Cheptegei led his colleagues for most of the race before finishing off the race with a time of 27:27:43 to beat Kenya’s Stanley Waithaka Mburu  who posted a time of 27:27:90.