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Article: Kenya's Cheruiyot to defend title in Boston Marathon
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- February 29, 2008
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Kenya's Cheruiyot to defend title in Boston Marathon
NAIROBI, Feb. 29 (Xinhua) -- Kenya's three-time Boston
championRobert Kipkoech Cheruiyot is set to defend his title against
2007 Chicago Champion Patrick Ivuti, 2007 runner-up James Kwambai
and 15 other top international athletes at the 112th edition of the
Boston marathon on April 21.
The world's athletic body, IAAF said on Thursday that
Cheruiyot,the course record holder and winner in 2003, 2006 and
2007, has added incentive to win as he will seek to become the first
Kenyan to claim four Boston Marathon crowns.
Cheruiyot also won Chicago in 2006, Milan in 2002 and was
namedthe inaugural World Marathon Majors Series Champion last year.
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