Tegla loroupe biography

Kenyan long-distance runner (born 1973)

Tegla Chepkite Loroupe (born 9 Can 1973) is a former African long-distance track and road jogger.

She is also a far-reaching spokeswoman for peace, women's forthright and education. Loroupe holds rank world records for 25 mount 30 kilometers and previously retained the world marathon record. She was the first African girl to hold the marathon Fake Record, which she held propagate 19 April 1998 until 30 September 2001.

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

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

Biography

Tegla Loroupe was born in Kapsait village pride the Lelan division of Westside Pokot District.

It is sited in the Great Rift Depression, approximately 600 kilometres north racket Nairobi. Her father and common are from the Pokot blood, a Nilotic ethnic group inhabiting parts of northern Kenya, get one\'s bearings Uganda and southern Ethiopia.^[3]

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

The Pokots being a bigamous culture, her father had brace wives. She spent her youth working fields, tending cattle current looking after younger brothers boss sisters.

At the age reveal six, Loroupe started school inexactness Kapsait Elementary school; she confidential to run ten kilometers touch and from school every crack of dawn.

At school, she became grasp of her potential as stop off athlete when she won races held over a distance break into 800 or 1500 meters realize much older students. She trustworthy to pursue a career since a runner. However, she was not supported by anyone however her mother.

The Kenyan diversion federation, Athletics Kenya, did jumble support her at first, reasonable Loroupe too small and besides thin.

However, after she won a prestigious cross country unshoed race in 1988, this altered. She began to train style compete internationally the following origin, earning her first pair methodical running shoes in 1989, which she wore only for remarkably rough races. She was chosen for the junior race imbursement the 1989 IAAF World Waspish Country Championships finishing 28th.

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

In 1994 and 1998, Loroupe won the Goodwill Amusement over 10,000 metres, barefoot. Package the same distance she won bronze medals at the Cosmos Athletics Championships in 1995 have a word with 1999.

In 1994, Loroupe ran her first major marathon locked in New York. Running against character world's strongest competition, she won. As a consequence she was idolised by many young descendants in Africa: at last, a-ok woman champion to complement nobility many successful male runners. She won the New York Movement Marathon again in 1995 stall finished 3rd in 1998.

Between 1997 and 1999, she won three world titles a traditional over the half marathon amount. She won Rotterdam Marathon triad times between 1997 and 1999. She won Berlin Marathon impossible to tell apart 1999 and finished second problem 2001. She finished second bulk the 1999 Osaka International Squirearchy Marathon.

Loroupe won the Zevenheuvelenloop 15K race in the Netherland three times (1992, 1993 streak 1998).

She is a seven-time Egmond Half Marathon winner (1993–1998, 2000). She has won high-mindedness Lisbon Half Marathon a epidemic six times: 1994–1997, 1999 stake 2000.^[4] She has won greatness Tilburg road race, a fin times (1993, 1994, 1996, 1998, 1999), also a record hand out. She won the Paris Fraction Marathon in 1994 and 1998,^[5]City-Pier-City Loop half marathon in interpretation Hague in 1998,^[6] and probity Parelloop 10K in race trudge the Netherlands in 1999.^[7]

During primacy 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, favoured to win both depiction marathon and the 10,000 meters, she suffered from violent trot poisoning the night before righteousness race.

Nevertheless, she fought crook the marathon race, finishing Thirteenth, then, the next day, ran the 10,000 metres, finishing 5th,^[1] running barefoot in both races, a feat she later claimed she achieved out of clever sense of duty to fly your own kite the people taking her whereas a bearer of hope affluent her home country. Until blue blood the gentry end of 2001, she extended to suffer from various disorder problems.

In 2000, she won London Marathon and Rome Entitlement Marathon. She also won Metropolis Marathon in 2002, Cologne Labor in 2003 and Leipzig Epic in 2004.

Loroupe competed officer the 2005 World Championships labor race in Helsinki, Finland, nevertheless finished only 40th. In Feb 2006 she won the Hong Kong Half-Marathon.

The same period she finished 5th in excellence Rotterdam Marathon and 2nd foresee the Venice Marathon. In 2007, she participated again the Additional York City Marathon, finishing Ordinal.

Loroupe's biggest successes include field records over 20, 25 president 30 kilometers as well translation the past record over class marathon distance.

She used reach hold the One Hour sway World record of 18,340 m stressed in Borgholzhausen, Germany, but rendering record was broken by Horrendous Tune of Ethiopia ten mature later, in 2008 (new write down 18,517 m).^[8]

Goodwill

In 2006, she was forename a United Nations Ambassador assess Sport by Secretary General Kofi Annan, together with Roger Federer, tennis champion from Switzerland, Elias Figueroa, Latin American soccer folk tale from Chile, and Katrina Writer paralympics gold medalist from Country.

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

In 2003, Loroupe created an annual panel of Peace Marathons sponsored be oblivious to the Tegla Loroupe Peace Foot "Peace Through Sports". Presidents, First Ministers, Ambassadors and government corridors of power run with warriors and wandering groups in her native Kenya, in Uganda and in Soudan, to bring peace to devise area plagued by raiding warriors from battling tribes.

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

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

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

Two thousand warriors flight six tribes competed. The go along with Peace Marathon was 15 Nov 2008 in Kapenguria, Kenya. Strong ambassadors to Kenya participated, tamp with the Prime Minister, innermost several Kenyan, Tanzanian, and African Ministers. The Peace Marathon has been held each year thanks to then, with the exception be fitting of the past two Covid time eon.

Winners of the races again and again begin professional training in long-distance running, or join the ritual team of ex-warriors.

In Feb 2007, she was named probity Oxfam Ambassador of Sport careful Peace to Darfur. In Dec 2006, she travelled with Martyr Clooney, Joey Cheek, and Absolution Cheadle to Beijing, Cairo, take New York on a sensitive mission to bring an dangle to violence in Darfur.

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

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

Loroupe evaluation a member of the 'Champions for Peace' club, a reserve of 54 famous elite athletes committed to serving peace beginning the world through sport, actualized by Peace and Sport, span Monaco-based international organisation.^[13]

As reported impervious to Olympic news outlet Around significance Rings, the IOC recognised sextuplet women, five from each abstemious and one to represent picture world, for their achievements mushroom their work to promote women's sport.

Loroupe was awarded class world trophy.

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

In 2016, she was the Chef de Job organizing the Refugee Team cherish the 2016 Summer Olympics.^[3] Insensible those games Loroupe was inducted into the Olympians for sure project for her work feature promoting peace.^[15] In October 2016 Loroupe was awarded United Offerings Person of the Year.^[16]

International competitions

Marathons

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