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SUM SET TO GET DIAMOND TROPHY: World bronze medallist to race in Zurich meet tonight

ATHLETICS-DIAMOND-GBR Kenya's Eunice Jepkoech Sum crosses the finish line to win the women's 800m final during the IAAF Diamond League Birmingham Grand Prix athletics meeting at the Alexander Stadium in Birmingham, central England, on June 7, 2015. AFP PHOTO / BEN STANSALL

World 800m bronze medallist Eunice Sum will be crowned with the IAAF Diamond Race Trophy when the Weltklasse meeting, the 13th IAAF Diamond League stop, gets underway in Zurich, Switzerland, tonight.

Sum, who rose from a volleyball player at Itigo Girls High School in Nandi County to a world beater on the track, will be crowned alongside Christina Schwanitz and Tianna Bartoletta, the trio who have all been imperious in this season’s Diamond Race.

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