Tegla Loroupe

Quick Facts

Full Name	Tegla Loroupe
Occupation	Long-Distance Runner
Date Of Birth	May 9, 1973(1973-05-09)
Age	51
Birthplace	Kenya
Country	Kenya
Horoscope	Taurus

Tegla Loroupe Biography

Tegla Loroupe is one of the most popular and richest Long-Distance Runner who was born on May 9, 1973 in Kenya, Kenya.

The Kenyan athletics federation, Athletics Kenya, did not support her at first, thinking Loroupe too small and too thin. However, after she won a prestigious cross country barefoot race in 1988, this changed. She began to train to compete internationally the following year, earning her first pair of running shoes in 1989, which she wore only for particularly rough races. She was nominated for the junior race of the 1989 IAAF World Cross Country Championships finishing 28th. She competed again at the 1990 IAAF World Cross Country Championships, finishing 16th in the junior race.

Loroupe won the Zevenheuvelenloop 15K race in the Netherland three times (1992, 1993 and 1998). She is a seven-time Egmond Half Marathon winner (1993–1998, 2000). She has won the Lisbon Half Marathon a record six times: 1994–1997, 1999 and 2000. She has won the Tilburg road race, a five times (1993, 1994, 1996, 1998, 1999), also a record number. She won the Paris Half Marathon in 1994 and 1998, City-Pier-City Loop half marathon in the Hague in 1998, and the Parelloop 10K in race in the Netherlands in 1999

Tegla Loroupe Net Worth

Tegla Loroupe is one of the richest Long-Distance Runner from Kenya. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Tegla Loroupe 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Tegla Chepkite Loroupe (born 9 May 1973) is a Kenyan long-distance track and road runner. She is also a global spokeswoman for peace, women’s rights and education. Loroupe holds the world records for 25 and 30 kilometres and previously held the world marathon record. She was the first African woman to hold the marathon World Record, which she held from 19 April 1998 until 30 September 2001. She is the three-time World Half-Marathon champion. Loroupe was also the first woman from Africa to win the New York City Marathon, which she has won twice. She has won marathons in London, Rotterdam, Hong Kong, Berlin and Rome.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

Tegla Loroupe height 5 ft 1 in Theodosis weight 88 lbs & body measurements will update soon.

Who is Tegla Loroupe Dating?

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During the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, favoured to win both the marathon and the 10,000 meters, she suffered from violent food poisoning the night before the race. Nevertheless, she fought through the marathon race, finishing 13th, then, the next day, ran the 10,000 metres, finishing 5th, running barefoot in both races, a feat she later stated she achieved out of a sense of duty to all the people taking her as a bearer of hope in her home country. Until the end of 2001, she continued to suffer from various health problems.

Facts & Trivia

Theodosis Ranked on the list of most popular Long-Distance Runner. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Kenya. Tegla Loroupe celebrates birthday on May 9 of every year.

Loroupe competed at the 2005 World Championships marathon race in Helsinki, Finland, but finished only 40th. In February 2006 she won the Hong Kong Half- Marathon. The same year she finished 5th in the Rotterdam Marathon and 2nd in the Venice Marathon. In 2007, she participated again the New York City Marathon, finishing 8th.

Why is Tegla Loroupe important?

At the 1994 New York City Marathon, Tegla Loroupe of Kenya made history as the first African woman to win a major marathon title. For years, African men had great success over the distance and now a female compatriot could share in the glory. Loroupe has won several major world marathons and broken world records.

What was the significance of Kenyan runner Tegla Loroupe completing the

race in 1994?

Kenyan Tegla Loroupe after winning the 1994 marathon. Nineteen years later, on the eve of Sunday’s ING New York City Marathon, the top two seeds in the women’s race are Kenyan. Since Loroupe’s victory, Kenyan women have won five of the intervening New York marathons and now own six world records in distance running.

Where was Tegla Loroupe born?

Kenya

Where is Tecla Lorupe?

The Tegla Loroupe Peace Race is an annual 10-kilometre road running event which takes place in November in Kapenguria, West Pokot County, Kenya. First held in 2003, the race was created by Kenyan runner Tegla Loroupe to bring together warriors of rival tribes to reduce conflict in the region.

How is Tegla Loroupe a peacemaker?

In 2003, Tegla began her Peace Foundation and launched the first Peace Race – a 10 km race in her home community of Pokot. Now held annually, it’s a day when tribes that would on any other day be at war, come together as comrades, and see each other as equals, not enemies.