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Article: Kenya's Paralympics team leaves for Beijing next week
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- August 22, 2008
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Kenya's Paralympics team leaves for Beijing next week
NAIROBI, Aug. 22 (Xinhua) -- A team of 13 Paralympics competitors
and five running guides will leave the country next week for Beijing
to take part in the Paralympics Games scheduled to start on Sept. 6
in China.
The contingent consists of star studded athletes among them 2004
Paralympics 10,000 and 5,000m gold medalist and world record holder
Henry Wanyoike, the 2002 paraplegic games Javelin gold medalist Mary
Nakhumicha.
Also featuring on the athletic list are Nelly Munyalo who earned
a Bronze medal in the 2006 Netherlands Paraplegic Games, Abraham
Tarbet who won a Gold medal in the 2007 All African Games held in
Algiers and Henry ...