Gladys Kipsoi

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Gladys Kipsoi is a Kenyan long-distance runner.

In 2012, Kipsoi won the Auray-Vannes Half Marathon. [1]

She won the 2013 Kampala Marathon. [2]

In 2014, she was runner-up at the Mumbai Marathon. [3]

She won the 2015 Reims à Toutes Jambes half marathon. [4] She also won the 2015 New Taipei City Wan Jin Shi Mara. [5] [6]

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