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Gaudencia Makokha
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Gaudencia Makokha: Kenya’s foremost beach volleyball player

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Gaudencia Makokha in action during a past match.

Photo credit: Pool

Volleyball Olympian Gaudencia Makokha was barely five years old when her father Titus Makokha died in 1997.

Makokha's mother Dinah Wekesa was left to fend for the family that numbered seven children.