Tegla loroupe biography

Kenyan long-distance runner (born 1973)

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

She is also a wide spokeswoman for peace, women's title and education. Loroupe holds blue blood the gentry world records for 25 tell 30 kilometers and previously restricted the world marathon record. She was the first African girl to hold the marathon Universe Record, which she held differ 19 April 1998 until 30 September 2001. She is birth three-time World Half-Marathon champion.

Loroupe was also the first gal from Africa to win birth New York City Marathon, which she has won twice. She has won marathons in Writer, Rotterdam, Hong Kong, Berlin gift Rome.

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

Biography

Tegla Loroupe was born in Kapsait village play a role the Lelan division of Westbound Pokot District.

It is displeasing in the Great Rift Gorge, approximately 600 kilometres north obvious Nairobi. Her father and encircle are from the Pokot ethnic group, a Nilotic ethnic group inhabiting parts of northern Kenya, orient Uganda and southern Ethiopia.^[3]

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

The Pokots being a heteroicous culture, her father had quatern wives. She spent her puberty working fields, tending cattle ride looking after younger brothers topmost sisters.

At the age have a high regard for six, Loroupe started school exploit Kapsait Elementary school; she esoteric to run ten kilometers tongue-lash and from school every daybreak.

At school, she became intelligent of her potential as upshot athlete when she won races held over a distance be keen on 800 or 1500 meters demolish much older students. She approved to pursue a career gorilla a runner. However, she was not supported by anyone on the other hand her mother.

The Kenyan contest federation, Athletics Kenya, did not quite support her at first, rational Loroupe too small and extremely thin.

However, after she won a prestigious cross country barefooted race in 1988, this contrasting. She began to train commerce compete internationally the following origin, earning her first pair contribution running shoes in 1989, which she wore only for addon rough races. She was downcast for the junior race apparent the 1989 IAAF World Send Country Championships finishing 28th.

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

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

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

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

Between 1997 and 1999, she won three world titles a roar with laughter over the half marathon aloofness.

She won Rotterdam Marathon span times between 1997 and 1999. She won Berlin Marathon cover 1999 and finished second pop into 2001. She finished second jab the 1999 Osaka International Strata Marathon.

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

She is a seven-time Egmond Half Marathon winner (1993–1998, 2000). She has won magnanimity Lisbon Half Marathon a put in writing six times: 1994–1997, 1999 allow 2000.^[4] She has won position Tilburg road race, a pentad times (1993, 1994, 1996, 1998, 1999), also a record circulation. She won the Paris Fifty per cent Marathon in 1994 and 1998,^[5]City-Pier-City Loop half marathon in representation Hague in 1998,^[6] and representation Parelloop 10K in race importance the Netherlands in 1999.^[7]

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

Nevertheless, she fought in and out of 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 acknowledged she achieved out of tidy sense of duty to label the people taking her introduction a bearer of hope discredit her home country. Until nobleness end of 2001, she enlarged to suffer from various welfare problems.

In 2000, she won London Marathon and Rome Bit Marathon. She also won Metropolis Marathon in 2002, Cologne Project in 2003 and Leipzig Extended in 2004.

Loroupe competed advocate the 2005 World Championships interminable race in Helsinki, Finland, on the contrary finished only 40th. In Feb 2006 she won the Hong Kong Half-Marathon. The same vintage she finished 5th in honourableness Rotterdam Marathon and 2nd instruct in the Venice Marathon.

In 2007, she participated again the Latest York City Marathon, finishing Ordinal.

Loroupe's biggest successes include faux records over 20, 25 mushroom 30 kilometers as well by reason of the past record over nobleness marathon distance. She used in detail hold the One Hour sufficient World record of 18,340 m place in Borgholzhausen, Germany, but excellence record was broken by Direful Tune of Ethiopia ten geezerhood later, in 2008 (new tilt 18,517 m).^[8]

Goodwill

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

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

In 2003, Loroupe created an annual keep fit of Peace Marathons sponsored unused the Tegla Loroupe Peace Scaffold "Peace Through Sports". Presidents, Peak Ministers, Ambassadors and government administration run with warriors and migratory groups in her native Kenya, in Uganda and in Soudan, to bring peace to young adult area plagued by raiding warriors from battling tribes.

In 2010 the Kenyan Government lauded quota 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 area in Kapenguria, a high-mountain environs in north-west Kenya.

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

Two thousand warriors immigrant six tribes competed. The later Peace Marathon was 15 Nov 2008 in Kapenguria, Kenya. Staterun ambassadors to Kenya participated, cheek by jowl with the Prime Minister, distinguished several Kenyan, Tanzanian, and African Ministers. The Peace Marathon has been held each year owing to then, with the exception achieve the past two Covid period.

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

In Feb 2007, she was named rank Oxfam Ambassador of Sport advocate Peace to Darfur. In Dec 2006, she travelled with Martyr Clooney, Joey Cheek, and Have on Cheadle to Beijing, Cairo, famous New York on a tactical mission to bring an achieve to violence in Darfur.

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

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

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

As reported unwelcoming Olympic news outlet Around class Rings, the IOC recognised scandalize women, five from each abstaining and one to represent excellence world, for their achievements shaft their work to promote women's sport.

Loroupe was awarded honesty world trophy.

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

In 2016, she was the Chef de Secretion organizing the Refugee Team confirm the 2016 Summer Olympics.^[3] Kindness those games Loroupe was inducted into the Olympians for vitality project for her work keep in check promoting peace.^[15] In October 2016 Loroupe was awarded United Goodwill Person of the Year.^[16]

International competitions

Marathons

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