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Beyond the training ground: How coach Ruth Bundotich is nurturing stars to global glory

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Athletics coach Ruth Bundotich displays a medal won by one of her athletes. Most of the athletes leave some of their medals in her house.[Stephen Rutto, Standard]

In Kamwosor, where athletics coach Ruth Jepchumba Bundotich has turned girls and boys into world beaters, the soft-spoken tactician is best known as a bighearted teacher.

Bundotich’s modest home located opposite Metkei Girls in Kenya’s Elgeyo Marakwet County has for over a decade been a residential camp for tens of junior athletes chasing gigantic dreams.

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