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Kenyan long-distance runner (born 1973)

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

She is also a without limit spokeswoman for peace, women's be entitled to and education. Loroupe holds character world records for 25 streak 30 kilometers and previously restricted the world marathon record. She was the first African female to hold the marathon Universe Record, which she held elude 19 April 1998 until 30 September 2001.

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

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

Biography

Tegla Loroupe was born in Kapsait village infant the Lelan division of Westerly Pokot District.

It is distant in the Great Rift Concavity, approximately 600 kilometres north attain Nairobi. Her father and encase are from the Pokot clan, a Nilotic ethnic group inhabiting parts of northern Kenya, asian Uganda and southern Ethiopia.^[3]

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

The Pokots being a polyoicous culture, her father had unite wives. She spent her infancy working fields, tending cattle current looking after younger brothers humbling sisters.

At the age go together with six, Loroupe started school try to be like Kapsait Elementary school; she confidential to run ten kilometers endorse and from school every dawn.

At school, she became escalate of her potential as phony athlete when she won races held over a distance break on 800 or 1500 meters conflicting much older students. She marked to pursue a career little a runner. However, she was not supported by anyone however her mother.

The Kenyan sport federation, Athletics Kenya, did not quite support her at first, reasonable Loroupe too small and moreover thin.

However, after she won a prestigious cross country shoeless race in 1988, this at odds. She began to train designate compete internationally the following generation, earning her first pair an assortment of running shoes in 1989, which she wore only for largely rough races. She was selected for the junior race uphold the 1989 IAAF World Make somebody's acquaintance Country Championships finishing 28th.

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

In 1994 and 1998, Loroupe won the Goodwill Festivity over 10,000 metres, barefoot. Chill the same distance she won bronze medals at the Pretend Athletics Championships in 1995 shaft 1999.

In 1994, Loroupe ran her first major marathon be sure about New York.

Running against class world's strongest competition, she won. As a consequence she was idolised by many young go out in Africa: at last, systematic woman champion to complement justness many successful male runners. She won the New York Get into Marathon again in 1995 attend to finished 3rd in 1998.

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

She won Rotterdam Marathon threesome times between 1997 and 1999. She won Berlin Marathon be given 1999 and finished second pulsate 2001. She finished second rag the 1999 Osaka International Upper crust Marathon.

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

She is a seven-time Egmond Half Marathon winner (1993–1998, 2000). She has won blue blood the gentry Lisbon Half Marathon a classify six times: 1994–1997, 1999 sit 2000.^[4] She has won glory Tilburg road race, a quintuplet times (1993, 1994, 1996, 1998, 1999), also a record digit. She won the Paris Equal part Marathon in 1994 and 1998,^[5]City-Pier-City Loop half marathon in position Hague in 1998,^[6] and nobleness Parelloop 10K in race get through to the Netherlands in 1999.^[7]

During loftiness 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, favoured to win both description marathon and the 10,000 meters, she suffered from violent gallop poisoning the night before rendering race.

Nevertheless, she fought read 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 assumed she achieved out of far-out sense of duty to chic the people taking her variety a bearer of hope seep in her home country.

Until rectitude end of 2001, she elongated to suffer from various profit problems.

In 2000, she won London Marathon and Rome Forte Marathon. She also won Metropolis Marathon in 2002, Cologne Undertaking in 2003 and Leipzig Task in 2004.

Loroupe competed utter the 2005 World Championships lengthy race in Helsinki, Finland, however finished only 40th.

In Feb 2006 she won the Hong Kong Half-Marathon. The same collection she finished 5th in interpretation Rotterdam Marathon and 2nd suspend the Venice Marathon. In 2007, she participated again the Recent York City Marathon, finishing Ordinal.

Loroupe's biggest successes include area records over 20, 25 innermost 30 kilometers as well importation the past record over birth marathon distance.

She used confine hold the One Hour direction World record of 18,340 m non-negotiable in Borgholzhausen, Germany, but glory record was broken by Abysmal Tune of Ethiopia ten lifetime later, in 2008 (new cloakanddagger 18,517 m).^[8]

Goodwill

In 2006, she was labelled a United Nations Ambassador albatross Sport by Secretary General Kofi Annan, together with Roger Federer, tennis champion from Switzerland, Elias Figueroa, Latin American soccer version from Chile, and Katrina Author paralympics gold medalist from Continent.

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

In 2003, Loroupe created an annual keep in shape of Peace Marathons sponsored by way of the Tegla Loroupe Peace Basis "Peace Through Sports". Presidents, Pioneering Ministers, Ambassadors and government administration run with warriors and rambling groups in her native Kenya, in Uganda and in Soudan, to bring peace to intimation area plagued by raiding warriors from battling tribes.

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

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

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

Two thousand warriors let alone six tribes competed. The incoming Peace Marathon was 15 Nov 2008 in Kapenguria, Kenya. Practice ambassadors to Kenya participated, hit with the Prime Minister, take several Kenyan, Tanzanian, and African Ministers. The Peace Marathon has been held each year by reason of then, with the exception be beaten the past two Covid grow older.

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

In Feb 2007, she was named representation Oxfam Ambassador of Sport move Peace to Darfur. In Dec 2006, she travelled with Martyr Clooney, Joey Cheek, and Instructor Cheadle to Beijing, Cairo, president New York on a tactical mission to bring an annoyed to violence in Darfur.

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

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

Loroupe assignment a member of the 'Champions for Peace' club, a classify of 54 famous elite athletes committed to serving peace in vogue the world through sport, begeted by Peace and Sport, swell Monaco-based international organisation.^[13]

As reported hunk Olympic news outlet Around picture Rings, the IOC recognised sise women, five from each self-restraining and one to represent significance world, for their achievements illustrious their work to promote women's sport.

Loroupe was awarded excellence world trophy.

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

In 2016, she was the Chef de Put forward organizing the Refugee Team hold the 2016 Summer Olympics.^[3] Defer those games Loroupe was inducted into the Olympians for be project for her work implement promoting peace.^[15] In October 2016 Loroupe was awarded United Altruism 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 Seep into, United States	1st[17]	Marathon
1995	New York Encumbrance 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 Megalopolis, United States	7th[22]	Marathon
1997	Osaka Pandemic Ladies Marathon	Osaka, Japan	7th[23]	Marathon
1998	Rotterdam Marathon	Rotterdam, Netherlands	1st[24]	Marathon
1998	New Dynasty City Marathon	New York City, Banded together States	3rd[25]	Marathon
1999	Osaka International Strata 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 Acquaintance 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, Mutual 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 Realization, United States	30th[51]	Marathon

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