Stephen Kiprotich
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Person
- Born
- 1989-02-27
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Key facts
- 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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Key dates
- Born
- 27 February 1989
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Stephen
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Uganda
- Place of birth
- Kapchorwa District
- Occupation
- athletics competitor
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Participant in
- athletics at the 2016 Summer Olympics – men's marathon
- Sport
- athletics
- Country for sport
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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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