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Uganda will enter a strong team of four runners in the Rio Olympics Marathon event due to the consistently good performance of the country’s long distance runners led by Stephen Kiprotich. With a slot for defending Olympic champion Kiprotich guaranteed, four other Ugandans have in the past year beaten the …

By The Independent Team Uganda’s Olympic champion Stephen Kiprotich on Saturday won the men’s marathon at the World Championships in Moscow. Kiprotich, the winner at last year’s London Games, became the first non-Kenyan to win the title since 2005 when he crossed the line in two hours nine minutes 51 …