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TWIST OF FATE: Kosgei goes to StanChart Marathon a pauper but returns home a millionaire

Standard Chartered Marathon winner Peter Kiprotich Kosgei with his wife Florence Cheruiyot and two year old daughter Abigael Chepchumba, pose for a photograph outside their grass thatched house at Chemwabul village Keiyo South in Elgeyo Marakwet County yesterday. Kosgei is now eying to brake marathon record in future. 29.10.2014. Picture By Peter Ochieng.

It is a case of answered prayers for the family of Peter Kosgei who borrowed bus fare from a neighbour to travel to Nairobi to participate in last Sunday’s Standard Chartered Nairobi Marathon.

The newly crowned StanChart marathon champion went to Nairobi a pauper and returned home a millionaire after beating other hundreds of contestants.

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