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Clean sweep in Cameroon

Canada's Kevin Sullivan of Brantford, Ont. sprints to the finish against Kenya's Noah Ngeny (right) in the 1,500 metres semi-finals at the Olympics in Sydney, Australia Wednesday September 27, 2000. Ngeny placed first and Sullivan second to advance to the finals. (CP PHOTO/Kevin Frayer)

The Kenyan national anthem was played eight times in Yaounde, Cameroon yesterday to celebrate her athletes who took all the individual and team gold medals on offer at the fourth CAA Africa Cross Country Champions in a mighty show of total dominance.

Besides retaining their overall title for a fourth successive time, the country’s revered distance runners took 22 out of 24 top places with only a Ugandan and Ethiopian athletes denying the winners a top six shut out in the junior women 6km, junior men 8km, senior women 10km and senior men 10km races, Citizen Digital reported.

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