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Kenyan Hellen Obiri wins 5,000 meters race at the Africa Senior Athletics Championships

[PHOTO: COURTESY]

World 5,000m champion Hellen Obiri put smiles on the faces of Kenyans as she won gold medal at the 21st Africa Senior Athletics Championships inside Stephen Keshi Stadium in Asaba, Nigeria, last evening.

Obiri, who won gold at the Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast in Australia last April, blew away a field of nine athletes to win 15:47.17.

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