Stephen Kiprotich

Ugandan long-distance runner

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Born: ( 1989-02-27 ) 27 February 1989 (age 37) , Kapchorwa District , Uganda
Height: 1.72 m (5 ft 8 in) (2012)
Weight: 56 kg (123 lb) (2012)
Country: Uganda
Sport: Athletics
Event: Long-distance running
Team: NN Running Team
Olympic finals: 2012 London Marathon, Gold
Personal bests: Marathon : 2:06:33 (Tokyo 2015) 10,000 m : 27:58.03 (Birmingham 2010) 5000 m : 13:23.70 ( Hengelo 2008)

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Instance of: human
Given name: Stephen
Gender: male
Citizenship: Uganda
Place of birth: Kapchorwa District
Occupation: marathon runner
Languages spoken: English language
Participant in: athletics at the 2016 Summer Olympics – men's marathon
Sport: athletics
Country for sport: Uganda
Mass: 56
Image: Stephen Kiprotich - Paris Half Marathon 2014 - b7543.jpg
Height: 172

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date of birth: 1989-02-27
sports discipline competed in: marathon
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Stephen Kiprotich ("KIP-roh-tich", born 27 February 1989) is a Ugandan long-distance runner. 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. 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. He won the Moscow IAAF Championship marathon on 17 August 2013.

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