Former Alabama track star Eliud Kipsang dead at 28 after suffering cardiac arrest

Former Alabama track star Eliud Kipsang has died just days after he suffered cardiac arrest, the university announced. He was 28. 

Kipsang, who was born in Kenya and is a current holder of several program records, went into cardiac arrest on Friday, June 6, according to a GoFundMe campaign set up on behalf of his family. He was admitted to the intensive care unit at Samaritan Hospital in Puyallup, Washington, but died just days later on Tuesday. 

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"We are heartbroken by the passing of Eliud Kipsang, one of the most gifted athletes ever to wear crimson and white," head coach Dan Waters said in a statement provided by the univers...