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Aiming high: Koech wants to return home with a 400m hurdles medal as Kemwoi eyes faster time

Aaron Koech

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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