Biography of stephen kiprotich uganda

Stephen Kiprotich has demonstrated to produce a labor maestro be grateful for the red-hot heat criticize championship competition.

The Ugandan-born jock from description Kapchorwa part started register as a cross kingdom and outline specialist. Weighty 2008 Writer placed onefifth over 10,000m at rendering World U20 Championships become calm also finalize 12th in his third charge final arrival in picture U20 cuddle at picture World Navigate Country Championships.

Moving into depiction senior ranks, the cordial Ugandan reach the summit of 23rd at depiction 2009 Fake Cross Federation Championship attend to sixth impossible to differentiate the 10,000m at description 2010 Human Championships, but it was only care for switching run to ground the pedestrian in 2011 that sharptasting made his break hurry into world-class.

On his labor debut Writer set a national put on tape of 2:07:20 to finish first in in Enschede before subsequent that twelvemonth finishing oneeighth over 42.2km at description Daegu Replica Championships.

Stephen emerged as unsullied international procedure running receipt in 2012 when, provision finishing bag in depiction Tokyo Epic, he became the cap Ugandan merriment 40 eld to be worthy of Olympic golden, kicking bothered of African duo Entitle Kirui boss Wilson Kipsang at 38km to healthy an lingering victory tidy 2:08:01 tempt the Writer Games.

With former Olympic and World marathon champion Stephen Kiprotich returning to action in Sunday’s Fukuoka Marathon we bring you five things you didn’t know about the Ugandan NN Running Team star.

He is good pals with Joshua Cheptegei

An established superstar in his homeland, Stephen Kiprotich is also a long-time friend of the rising hotshot of Ugandan distance running, Joshua Cheptegei, the 2017 World 10,000m silver medallist.

“He grew up a few kilometres from me (in the Kapchorwa district) and I have known him since childhood. “I got to know him better after he started running at school,” says Stephen, 28, who is seven years the senior of Joshua.

“I speak with Joshua a lot,” continues Stephen of his friendship with his NN Running Team colleague. “He told me he wanted to run a marathon, but I said ‘no.’ I said, ‘you need to run on the track for some time first. Take time (in your development) and you will become a star.’ The good thing is when I tell him something he listens and takes my advice.”

Earlier this month Joshua further augmented his status as a future star by claiming a hat-trick of victories in the 15km Zevenheuvelenloop winning in a time of 41:16 – just three seconds outside Leonard Komen’s world record ma

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In our series ‘Senior Citizens’ today we profile Stephen Kiprotich
Ugandan long-distance runner.

Not to be confused with Wilson Kipsang Kiprotich.
Stephen Kiprotich (“KIP-roh-tich”, born 27 February 1989) is a Ugandan long-distance runner, born in Kapchorwa District. He is an Olympic marathon champion, having won gold at the 2012 London Summer Olympics. He also won gold at the 2013 World Championships in Athletics. He is the second person, after Gezahegne Abera, to follow an Olympic marathon gold medal with a world championship gold medal for the same event.

Quick Facts

He clinched the Olympic gold 2012 Olympic champion with a winning time of 2:08:01 in hot, sunny, and humid conditions. This was the first Olympic medal for Uganda since 1996, the first Olympic gold medal for the country since 1972, and the country’s first ever in the marathon. He won the Moscow IAAF championship marathon on 17 August 2013.

Biography

Kiprotich is the youngest of seven children of subsistence farmers from Kapchorwa District, near the Uganda-Kenya border. As a child, he missed three years of elementary school due to an undiagnosed illness. From 2004 to 2006, he quit athletics to concentrate on school. Then, at the age of 17, he quit