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Meet Kenya’s women and men who broke virgin ground in athletics

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Tecla Chemabwai Sang, the first Kenyan woman Olympian who won a Silver medal at the 1972 Munich Olympics. Sang is now an athletics coach and director of Chemabwai Education Centre in Uasin Gishu County. 04.03.2020. [PHOTO BY KEVIN TUNOI, THE STANDARD]

Like Roger Bannister, the first man in history to run a mile in under four minutes in 1954, Kenyans, too, bask in a fair share of their athletics firsts.

They defied the perception of their illiteracy, travelled miles away to foreign land searching for fame and fortune at the height of colonial days.

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