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| Full name | Lucy Wambui Murigi | |||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Kenyan | |||||||||||||||||
| Born | 7 July 1985 | |||||||||||||||||
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| Country |  Kenya | |||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Mountain running | |||||||||||||||||
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Lucy Wambui Murigi (born 7 July 1985) is a female Kenyan mountain runner who won the 2017 World Mountain Running Championships. [1] She also won the 2018 World Mountain Running Championships held in Andorra. [2]
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