Biography of stephen kiprotich kenya
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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.
Biography of stephen kiprotich kenya
He is an Olympic marathon champion, having won the gold medal at the 2012 London Olympics. Kiprotich also won a gold at the 2013 World Championships in Athletics. After Ethiopia's Gezahegne Abera, he is the second person to follow an Olympic marathon title with a world championship gold medal for the same event.
Kiprotich became 2012 Olympic champion with a winning time of 2:08:01 in hot, sunny, and humid conditions.[1][2] 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 medal in the marathon.[3] 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, ne