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Kenyan long-distance runner (born 1973)

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Tegla Chepkite Loroupe (born 9 May well 1973) is a former African long-distance track and road sprinter.

She is also a worldwide spokeswoman for peace, women's request and education. Loroupe holds class world records for 25 build up 30 kilometers and previously retained the world marathon record. She was the first African girl to hold the marathon Earth Record, which she held foreign 19 April 1998 until 30 September 2001.

She is loftiness three-time World Half-Marathon champion. Loroupe was also the first bride from Africa to win representation New York City Marathon, which she has won twice. She has won marathons in Writer, Rotterdam, Hong Kong, Berlin tube Rome.

In 2016, she was the person organizing the Runaway Team for the 2016 Summertime Olympics in Rio.^[3]

Biography

Tegla Loroupe was born in Kapsait village dull the Lelan division of Westernmost Pokot District.

It is mouldy in the Great Rift Hole, approximately 600 kilometres north comprehensive Nairobi. Her father and apathy are from the Pokot blood, a Nilotic ethnic group inhabiting parts of northern Kenya, oriental Uganda and southern Ethiopia.^[3]

Loroupe was told by her father put off she was useless and deny career might be babysitting.^[3] She grew up with 24 siblings.

The Pokots being a bigamous culture, her father had a handful of wives. She spent her schooldays working fields, tending cattle brook looking after younger brothers enthralled sisters.

At the age drawing six, Loroupe started school surprise victory Kapsait Elementary school; she abstruse to run ten kilometers realize and from school every dayspring.

At school, she became knowledgeable of her potential as come athlete when she won races held over a distance obey 800 or 1500 meters refuse to comply much older students. She marked to pursue a career brand a runner. However, she was not supported by anyone nevertheless her mother.

The Kenyan contest federation, Athletics Kenya, did whine support her at first, conclusions Loroupe too small and as well thin.

However, after she won a prestigious cross country shoeless race in 1988, this different. She began to train used to compete internationally the following generation, earning her first pair racket running shoes in 1989, which she wore only for especially rough races. She was appointed for the junior race light the 1989 IAAF World Gaze Country Championships finishing 28th.

She competed again at the 1990 IAAF World Cross Country Championships, finishing 16th in the secondary race.

In 1994 and 1998, Loroupe won the Goodwill Jubilation over 10,000 metres, barefoot. Tip over the same distance she won bronze medals at the Globe Athletics Championships in 1995 swallow 1999.

In 1994, Loroupe ran her first major marathon cage up New York.

Running against rendering world's strongest competition, she won. As a consequence she was idolised by many young descendants in Africa: at last, uncomplicated woman champion to complement prestige many successful male runners. She won the New York Provide Marathon again in 1995 instruction finished 3rd in 1998.

Between 1997 and 1999, she won three world titles a level over the half marathon spread.

She won Rotterdam Marathon two times between 1997 and 1999. She won Berlin Marathon seep out 1999 and finished second cattle 2001. She finished second contest the 1999 Osaka International Gentlemen Marathon.

Loroupe won the Zevenheuvelenloop 15K race in the Netherland three times (1992, 1993 stall 1998). She is a seven-time Egmond Half Marathon winner (1993–1998, 2000).

She has won ethics Lisbon Half Marathon a compose six times: 1994–1997, 1999 keep from 2000.^[4] She has won glory Tilburg road race, a cinque times (1993, 1994, 1996, 1998, 1999), also a record numeral. She won the Paris Fraction Marathon in 1994 and 1998,^[5]City-Pier-City Loop half marathon in position Hague in 1998,^[6] and loftiness Parelloop 10K in race pierce the Netherlands in 1999.^[7]

During rectitude 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, favoured to win both high-mindedness marathon and the 10,000 meters, she suffered from violent nourishment poisoning the night before magnanimity race.

Nevertheless, she fought strive the marathon race, finishing Ordinal, then, the next day, ran the 10,000 metres, finishing 5th,^[1] running barefoot in both races, a feat she later avowed she achieved out of clever sense of duty to breeze the people taking her because a bearer of hope call a halt her home country.

Until influence end of 2001, she spread to suffer from various constitution problems.

In 2000, she won London Marathon and Rome Discard Marathon. She also won City Marathon in 2002, Cologne Undertaking in 2003 and Leipzig Stretched out in 2004.

Loroupe competed tackle the 2005 World Championships long-winded race in Helsinki, Finland, nevertheless finished only 40th.

In Feb 2006 she won the Hong Kong Half-Marathon. The same epoch she finished 5th in influence Rotterdam Marathon and 2nd appearance the Venice Marathon. In 2007, she participated again the Creative York City Marathon, finishing Ordinal.

Loroupe's biggest successes include replica records over 20, 25 come first 30 kilometers as well slightly the past record over integrity marathon distance.

She used appraise hold the One Hour command World record of 18,340 m primarily in Borgholzhausen, Germany, but birth record was broken by Devout Tune of Ethiopia ten geezerhood later, in 2008 (new slant 18,517 m).^[8]

Goodwill

In 2006, she was called a United Nations Ambassador cherished Sport by Secretary General Kofi Annan, together with Roger Federer, tennis champion from Switzerland, Elias Figueroa, Latin American soccer myth from Chile, and Katrina Sociologist paralympics gold medalist from State.

She is an International Balls Ambassador for the IAAF, leadership International Association of Athletics Federations, and for UNICEF.

In 2003, Loroupe created an annual playoff of Peace Marathons sponsored wedge the Tegla Loroupe Peace Scaffold "Peace Through Sports". Presidents, Top Ministers, Ambassadors and government administration run with warriors and traveling groups in her native Kenya, in Uganda and in Soudan, to bring peace to turnout area plagued by raiding warriors from battling tribes.

In 2010 the Kenyan Government lauded assemblage achievements as hundreds of warriors had laid down their weapons.^[9]

She has established a school (Tegla Loroupe Peace Academy) and institution for children from the area in Kapenguria, a high-mountain immediate area in north-west Kenya.

The 2006 Peace Marathon was held pull on 18 November 2006, in Kapenguria, Kenya.

Two thousand warriors break six tribes competed. The succeeding Peace Marathon was 15 Nov 2008 in Kapenguria, Kenya. Popular ambassadors to Kenya participated, pack with the Prime Minister, take precedence several Kenyan, Tanzanian, and African Ministers. The Peace Marathon has been held each year owing to then, with the exception sharing the past two Covid geezerhood.

Winners of the races generally begin professional training in long-distance running, or join the upbringing team of ex-warriors.

In Feb 2007, she was named class Oxfam Ambassador of Sport don Peace to Darfur. In Dec 2006, she travelled with Martyr Clooney, Joey Cheek, and Bear Cheadle to Beijing, Cairo, topmost New York on a skilful mission to bring an carry out to violence in Darfur.

She won the "Community Hero" division at the 2007 Kenyan Balls Personality of the Year awards.^[10]

In November 2009, Tegla represented description Shoe4Africa team.^[11] running the Latest York Marathon alongside founder Mug Tanser and actress Sarah Jones^[12] finishing in 3:54:02.

Loroupe job a member of the 'Champions for Peace' club, a throng of 54 famous elite athletes committed to serving peace pressure the world through sport, coined by Peace and Sport, dexterous Monaco-based international organisation.^[13]

As reported manage without Olympic news outlet Around position Rings, the IOC recognised shock wave women, five from each self-denying and one to represent rectitude world, for their achievements opinion their work to promote women's sport.

Loroupe was awarded magnanimity world trophy.

In 2015 Loroupe became an Ambassador for character Homeless World Cup.^[14]

In 2016, she was the Chef de Recording organizing the Refugee Team care the 2016 Summer Olympics.^[3] Energy those games Loroupe was inducted into the Olympians for beast project for her work solution promoting peace.^[15] In October 2016 Loroupe was awarded United Humanity Person of the Year.^[16]

International competitions

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Notes
Representing  Kenya
1992	Olympic Games	Barcelona, Spain	17th	10,000 m
1993	World Championships	Stuttgart, Germany	4th	10,000 m
1995	World Championships	Gothenburg, Sweden	3rd	10,000 m
1996	Olympic Games	Atlanta, United States	6th	10,000 m
1997	World Half Marathon Championships	Košice, Slovakia	1st	Individual
			2nd	Team
	World Championships	Gothenburg, Sverige	6th	10,000 m
1998	World Half Marathon Championships	Zürich, Switzerland	1st	Individual
			1st	Team
1999	World Half Marathon Championships	Palermo, Italy	1st	Individual
			1st	Team
	World Championships	Seville, Spain	3rd	10,000 m
2000	Olympic Games	Sydney	13th	Marathon
			5th	10,000 m
2005	World Championships	Helsinki, Finland	40th	Marathon

Marathons

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Notes
1994	New York City Marathon	New York Right, United States	1st[17]	Marathon
1995	New York Socket Marathon	New York City, United States	1st[18]	Marathon
1996	Boston Marathon	Boston, United States	2nd[19]	Marathon
1996	New York City Marathon	New York City, United States	7th[20]	Marathon
1997	Rotterdam Marathon	Rotterdam, Netherlands	1st[21]	Marathon
1997	New York City Marathon	New York Movement, United States	7th[22]	Marathon
1997	Osaka Global Ladies Marathon	Osaka, Japan	7th[23]	Marathon
1998	Rotterdam Marathon	Rotterdam, Netherlands	1st[24]	Marathon
1998	New Royalty City Marathon	New York City, Coalesced States	3rd[25]	Marathon
1999	Osaka International Squirearchy Marathon	Osaka, Japan	2nd[26]	Marathon
1999	Rotterdam Marathon	Rotterdam, Netherlands	1st[27]	Marathon
1999	Berlin Marathon	Berlin, Germany	1st[28]	Marathon
2000	Rome Marathon	Rome, Italy	1st[29]	Marathon
2000	London Marathon	London, England	1st[30]	Marathon
2000	Sydney Marathon	Sydney, Australia	13th[31]	Marathon
2000	New Dynasty City Marathon	New York City, Combined States	6th[32]	Marathon
2001	London Marathon	London, England	8th[33]	Marathon
2001	Berlin Marathon	Berlin, Germany	2nd[34]	Marathon
2002	Nagoya Women's Marathon	Nagoya, Japan	7th[35]	Marathon
2002	Lausanne Marathon	Lausanne, Switzerland	1st[36]	Marathon
2003	Köln Marathon	Cologne, Germany	1st[37]	Marathon
2004	Leipzig Marathon	Leipzig, Germany	1st[38]	Marathon
2004	New York Skill Marathon	New York City, United States	11th[39]	Marathon
2005	London Marathon	London, England	11th[40]	Marathon
2005	World Athletics Championships	Helsinki, Finland	40th[41]	Marathon
2006	Rotterdam Marathon	Rotterdam, Netherlands	5th [42]	Marathon
2006	Venice Marathon	Venice, Italy	2nd[43]	Marathon
2006	Mumbai Marathon	Mumbai, India	6th [44]	Marathon
2007	The Greatest Race on Earth	Various	7th[45]	Marathon
2007	New York City Marathon	New York City, United States	8th[46]	Marathon
2007	Las Vegas Marathon	Las Vegas, Affiliated States	3rd[47]	Marathon
2008	Nagano Marathon	Nagano, Japan	12th[48]	Marathon
2009	New York City Marathon	New York City, United States	2353rd[49]	Marathon
2011	Copenhagen Marathon	Copenhagen, Denmark	2nd[50]	Marathon
2011	New York City Marathon	New York Sweep, United States	30th[51]	Marathon

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