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Edna Kiplagat: Athlete with a competitive spirit

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Kenya's Edna Ngeringwony Kiplagat  at the 2017 IAAF World Championships in central London on August 6, 2017. AFP FILE PHOTO

She was born and bred in the hilly terrains near Torok Falls in Keiyo North and the hardships seem to have paid dividends.

And Edna Kiplagat, the two-time world marathon champion, has been an active athlete since making the national team to World Junior Athletics Championships in Sydney, Australia, in 1996 while a Standard Eight pupil at Kapkoi Primary School in Keiyo North.

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