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Nicholas Bett went to the World Championships in Beijing, China, last year, as an underdog. But he shocked the world with the 400m hurdles global title, a feat previously achieved 43 years ago by Uganda’s John Akii-Bua in the 1972 Munich Olympics.
That left his older brother, Aaron Koech, a semi-finalist in the Beijing worlds, lurking in his shadow. Bett is a police officer based in Kisumu County.
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