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home > fellows' stories > spring 2004 > kenya

Kenyan Runners

by Sadie Babits, Spring 2004 IRP Fellow
Reprinted with permission of "Only a Game"

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The world's top runners took part in the 108th Boston Marathon on Monday, April 19, 2004.

Among the elite athletes were defending champion Robert Kipkoech Cheruiyot and two-time winner Catherine Ndereba, both of whom represented Kenya and that country's tradition of running excellence.

But recently some of Kenya's top runners have changed citizenship to run for other countries. From Kenya, Sadie Babits has the story.

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