Jipcho Road in Wigram and nothing on library website or council website. I managed to find out how the street got name Jipcho from a media article in an African newspaper. Ben Jepicho was a Kenyan athlete who won two gold medals at the 1974 Commonwealth Games here in Christchurch. He was born in 1943 and died in 2020.
Another street with businesses and the main entrance to VTNZ is on this street. I did like the sign on the truck and trailer business. Note I couldn’t find the geocache that is supposed to be hidden on this street which was really annoying.
Edited as I obviously forgot to look at Papers Past for this street. The street was built on railway land in the 1980s and in 1989 they used a helicopter to dry the asphalt on a building site in the street. There was also a horse called Jipcho so the street was possibly named after the horse but then the horse was possibly named after the runner.
Edited yet again and this street is highly likely to have been named after Ben Jipcho as surrounding streets were named after competitors at the 1974 Commonwealth Games
Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project 