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Bronze at first asking for youngster Wambui

Margaret Wambui (KEN) of Kenya celebrates winning the bronze medal. REUTERS

Margaret Nyairera, the 2014 IAAF world junior 800m champion, struck Kenya’s third Olympic two-lap race medal in a too-close-to-call African affair at the Olympic Stadium yesterday morning.

And the runner from Endarasha, Nyandarua County said her bronze medal, which is the third jewel after Janeth Jepkosgei (silver) and Pamela Jelimo (gold) at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, was her biggest achievement.

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