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Kenya's Beatrice Chepkoech competes in the women's 1,500 metres at the Glasgow Indoor Grand Prix athletics competition at the Emirates Arena in Glasgow on February 25, 2018. / AFP PHOTO / ANDY BUCHANAN
It has been a tradition to see athletes from other countries set the pace for Kenyans in major races.
But there seem to have been a departure –after Nicholas Kimeli and world 3,000m steeplechase record holder Beatrice Chepkoech helped Uganda’s Joshua Cheptegei to a new world records in 10,000m (26:11.00) and Ethiopia’s Letensebet Gidey in 5,000m (14:06.62) at the NN Valencia World Record Day on Wednesday night.
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