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Mary Moraa, who has been christened ‘Kisii Express’, overcame stage fright to win the girls 400m heat two with a personal best of 54:07 seconds while another Kenyan Sharon Jebet ran 55:91 seconds to finish second to qualify for today’s semi-finals.
Moraa, a Form Two student at Mogonga Secondary School, was slow off the blocks but slowly picked up to beat Brazilian Giovana Rosalia Dos Santos to second place in 54.29 secs. Serbia’s Katarina Sekulic’s time of 54:86 placed her in third position. Moraa’s time of 54.07 was the quickest in girls’ 400m round one.
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