Oh Joo-han

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Oh Joo-han ( Korean 오주 한 ; born November 20, 1988 as Wilson Loyanae Erupe ) is a South Korean marathon runner of Kenyan origin.

In 2011 he won the Mombasa Marathon. On his first start abroad, he won the Gyeongju International Marathon and improved his personal record by more than three and a half minutes to 2:09:23 h.

In 2012 he made another leap in performance at the Seoul International Marathon . With 2:05:37 h he set a course record. In the same year he was tested positive for EPO during a training control and banned for two years because of doping . After his doping ban he won the Seoul International Marathon again in 2015. He repeated this victory in 2016 as well, this time in 2:05:13 h with a new personal best and track record. After another victory in Seoul in 2018, he became a South Korean citizen in the same year, took the name Oh Joo-han and has been eligible to compete internationally for South Korea since March 2019.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ IAAF: Loyanai leads Kenyan sweep in Gyeongju ( Memento of 18 October 2011 at the Internet Archive ). October 16, 2011
  2. ↑ IAAF: Loyanae cruises 2:05:37 to shatter course record in Seoul . March 18, 2012
  3. ↑ Kenya bans three marathon runners , RNZ February 23, 2013
  4. ↑ Kenyan marathoner set to represent Seoul at Tokyo 2020. In: koreatimes.co.kr. March 20, 2019, accessed June 28, 2020 .
Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Oh is the family name here, Joo-han is the first name.
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SURNAME Oh, Joo-han
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Erupe, Wilson Loyanae; Ekupe, Wilson Loyanae
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South Korean marathon runner of Kenyan origin
DATE OF BIRTH November 20, 1988