Kenyan-born marathon runner with Bosnia and Herzegovina citizenship, Lucia Kimani, poses before training in Mrakovica, near the western Bosnian town of Prijedor, on May 15, 2016.
She started running on the plains of her native Kenya and today trains in dark Balkan forests. Now marathoner Lucia Kimani is set to become Bosnia’s first athlete to compete in three Olympic games.
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Her unusual journey is propelled by a love story, which began in 2004. Kimani, then 23, was an unknown runner among a number of Kenyans taking part in the Salzburg marathon.
