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Athletics: Marathoner Jeptoo back with a bang

Prisca Jeptoo getting a taste of mursik after arriving in Eldoret from a race abroad.

She is back in action after an injury that sidelined her for seven months. Immediate past world marathon majors’ (WMM) winner Priscah Jeptoo was the favourite female marathoner in the April’s Virgin London Marathon but she was only seen at the starting line and vanished.

Since then, Jeptoo has ducked the athletics world radar, but emerged last weekend when she won the 15km ZevenHeuvelenLoop race, setting the course record of 46:56.

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