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Kenya's first Olympic medallist Kiprugut Chumo dies

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Wilson Kiprugut Chumo, who won Kenya's first ever Olympic medal, during a past interview at his residential home in Kericho County. He died on Tuesday night. [Peter Ochieng, Standard]

Wilson Kiprugut Chumo, the first Kenyan and African to win an Olympic medal during the 1964 Olympic Games is dead.

The 90-year-old athlete collapsed at his Kipchebor home near Kericho town on Tuesday and was pronounced dead at Siloam Hospital.

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