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How Vincent Kipchumba overcame hip injury to finish second in London

London Marathon runners-up Vincent Kipchumba sipping Mursik from his wife Olive Chepkorir Kipchumba at their rural home in Chepkatet, Uasin Gishu County. [Christopher Kipsang, Standard]

Chepkatet village, barely one and half kilometres away from the Eldoret International Airport came alive yesterday as London Marathon runners-up Vincent Kipchumba arrived.

Kipchumba, who finished second and became the only Kenyan in the London Marathon podium for the second year running, was accorded a heroic welcome.

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