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Uganda’s Chemutai overtakes USA’s Frerichs for steeple gold

Uganda's Chemutai overtakes USA's Frerichs for steeple gold
Uganda's Chemutai overtakes USA's Frerichs for steeple gold

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Peruth Chemutai overtook U.S. record-holder Courtney Frerichs in the last 250m to become the first Ugandan woman to win an Olympic medal in any sport, clocking a national-record 9:01.45; Coburn was DQ’d for stepping off.

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