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Beijing 2015 world champion showed there was no barrier big enough for human will

On a gentle night in Beijing Nicholas Kiplagat Bett stunned the world when he became the first Kenyan to win a sprints gold medal at the World Championships.

It was an unprecedented and historic feat for Bett who hailed from an athletics loving family and yesterday morning, the country and indeed the world was stunned when news of his untimely death following a road accident in Nandi County filtered through.

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