Stephen Kiprotich

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Stephen Kiprotich (2014)
Stephen Kiprotich, 2014

nation UgandaUganda Uganda
birthday 27th February 1989 (age 31)
place of birth Cheptiyal
size 172 cm
Weight 56 kg
Career
discipline Long distance running
status active
Medal table
Olympic games 1 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
World championships 1 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
Olympic rings Olympic games
gold London 2012 marathon
World championships
gold Moscow 2013 marathon
last change: December 5, 2019

Stephen Kiprotich (born February 27, 1989 in Cheptiyal , Kapchorwa District ) is a Ugandan long-distance runner and Olympic marathon champion.

Career

At the 2007 World Championships in Osaka , he was eliminated over 5000 meters in the preliminary run. In 2009 he came in 23rd place at the Cross Country World Championships in Amman , and in 2010 he was fifth at the Mountain Running World Championships in Kamnik .

At the World Cross Country Championships 2011 in Punta Umbría he finished sixth and won bronze with the Ugandan team. One month later he won the Enschede Marathon on his debut over the 42.195 km distance . In the marathon of the World Championships in Daegu , he ran into ninth place.

In 2012 he finished third in the Tokyo Marathon . At the Olympic Games in London in 2012 , Kiprotich was Olympic marathon champion with a time of 2:08:01 h. He is only the second Ugandan to win a gold medal at the Olympic Games.

At the World Championships in Moscow in 2013 he won the title - in the absence of the best Kenyans - and is thus the first marathon runner after Gezahegne Abera in 2001 to be both Olympic and world champion. Stephen Kiprotich was trained and looked after by his manager Godfrey Nuwagaba until he passed away in 2017.

In November 2019, the 30-year-old announced that he would retire from the national team after the Olympic Games in Tokyo 2020. Stephen Kiprotich lives in Kenya.

Personal bests

Web links

Commons : Stephen Kiprotich  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Stephen Kiprotich. (No longer available online.) London2012.com, archived from the original on December 6, 2012 ; Retrieved August 12, 2012 .
  2. ^ Athlete portrait Stephen Kiprotich on Marathoninfo.free.fr
  3. ^ Portrait at IAAF - Focus on Athletes ( Memento from August 19, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), March 25, 2009
  4. Stephen Kiprotich celebrates marathon gold for Uganda. In: tagesspiegel.de. August 12, 2012. Retrieved April 26, 2018 .
  5. Olympia 2012: Kiprotich runs to marathon gold. In: Spiegel Online . August 12, 2012, accessed May 10, 2014 .
  6. Sean Ingle: Stephen Kiprotich's Olympic marathon win gives Uganda second gold ever. August 12, 2012, accessed May 10, 2014 .
  7. Kiprotich wins marathon. In: FAZ.NET . August 17, 2013. Retrieved August 17, 2013 .
  8. Stephen Kiprotich announces retirement plans (November 12, 2019)