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	Tegla Loroupe -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Tegla Loroupe grew up with 24 siblings; her father had four wives.
		In 1994 Loroupe ran her first major (A battle in 490 BC in which the Athenians and their allies defeated the Persians) marathon in (A Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies) New York and won.
		Tegla Loroupe went on to win almost all of the major marathons in the world.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/t/te/tegla_loroupe.htm (498 words)

	IAAF International Association of Athletics Federations - IAAF.org - News - Article
		Loroupe is the first Kenyan to receive the Georg von Opel Preis, which is being given to her because of her active involvement in humanitarian projects in both her own country and abroad.
		Tegla is building the Tegla Loroupe Academy in which priority will be given to children whose parents cannot afford to send their children to school.
		Tegla is a worldwide peace activist and has used her talent, among others, to run for peace in Indonesia after the terrorist bombing last year.
	www.iaaf.org /news/Kind=2/newsId=23407.html (668 words)

	Runner's World presents NYCM 2004-Two-Time Champ Tegla Loroupe Returns to New York (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Tegla Loroupe, the diminutive Kenyan who became the first African woman running superstar on American roads, was returning to compete in the New York City Marathon for the first time since 2000, and after deplaning at the airport, she got on a typically long line at passport control.
		On Friday, Loroupe pronounced herself "a little nervous, like 1994" but "glad to be back." She has occasionally been beset by back problems in recent years, but says that on Sunday, "I'm looking forward to beating my time from 1994," her triumphant 2:27:37.
		Loroupe was the first West Pokot tribeswoman to excel internationally as a distance runner.
	www.runnersworld.com /events/nycm04/041105feat_tegla.html (769 words)

	Tegla Laroupe
		Such is the case with four-foot-eleven, 86-pound Tegla Loroupe, presently the fastest female marathoner in history: Last April in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, she bested Ingrid Kristiansen's 13-year-old world record.
		Loroupe, a 25-year-old Kenyan, lowered the standard by an impressive 19 seconds, to 2:20:47, bringing her closer than any woman has been to shattering the elusive 2:20 barrier in marathoning.
		Loroupe took about three weeks off from training, but the leg problems started to take their toll; for the next three months, she was not her running self.
	www.yukonweb.com /community/athletics/newpage1.htm (1111 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Tegla Loroupe was in a class by herself as she won the New York Mini Marathon in 31:37.
		Loroupe reaffirmed her number one status as she stormed to victory at the New York Mini Marathon on June 10th, leaving some of the world's best runners in her wake.
		Loroupe passed the halfway point in 15:29, on pace to break Grete Waitz's 20-year-old event record of 31:00, but slowed in the fourth (uphill) mile as her competition dropped completely out of sight and the temperature climbed towards 90 degrees.
	web2.nyrrc.org /race/r0610x23.htm (948 words)

	The Official Athletic Site for The University of Toledo Athletics::General Releases
		Loroupe, a member of the Kalejin tribe, passed up on competitive running in high school because she spent much of her time working on her parents' farm.
		Tegla Loroupe, who is the women's world record holder in the marathon, broke her own mark at the London Marathon in April, winning with a time of 2:20:46.
		Loroupe began to turn heads across the country with her performances, and UT track coach Kevin Hadsell was no exception.
	utrockets.collegesports.com /genrel/rocketprofile-loroupe.html (767 words)

	Corpus Christi Caller Times Caller.com - Kenyan runner Loroupe breaks own record in women's marathon with time of ...
		Loroupe, a two-time New York City Marathon winner, was about 30 seconds off her Rotterdam pace at 21.7 miles of the 26.2-mile race.
		Loroupe, the dominant women's marathoner in recent years, had said she wanted to set the record in her Berlin debut and was hoping to crack the 2:20 barrier.
		Loroupe had been given the entry No. 219, as in 2:19:00, with both organizers and the Kenyan hoping she would become the first woman to break 2:20.
	www.caller2.com /1999/september/27/today/sports_n/529.html (526 words)

	Silva, Loroupe favored to win third titles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Loroupe, a 24-year-old Kenyan, missed a third consecutive title last year when she went out at a record pace, then faltered in the late stages and struggled home seventh with cramps and dizziness.
		Loroupe conceded her tactics were wrong last year.
		If Loroupe, who has not lost a road race this year at various distances, runs a controlled race, she appears to be the class of the field.
	www.freep.com /sports/othersports/qnyc2.htm (948 words)

	The Hindu : Girded by struggles, Loroupe runs for Kenyan gold
		She appears fragile at 4 feet 11 inches and 82 pounds, yet she is an insistent wraith, holding the world record of 2 hours 20 minutes 43 seconds and refusing to succumb to the pressures of her country and her father to live a chattel life of domestic servitude.
		When Tegla was not yet 3, she said, her mother gave birth in the fields of the family farm to a brother named Philip and returned home still bleeding from the delivery.
		Tegla had also been born in a maize field, her mother going into labour as she worked in the land.
	www.hinduonnet.com /thehindu/2000/09/16/stories/0716075w.htm (1892 words)

	IAAF International Association of Athletics Federations - IAAF.org - News - Article
		Almost a month after her 30th birthday Tegla Loroupe ran 1:45:50.00 for the distance, lowering the mark (1:47:05.6) set by Hungary’s Karolina Szabo in Budapest on 22 April 1988 by 1:15.6 minutes.
		Instead of appearance money or a World record bonus, Loroupe asked the organizers to donate the money for a school which is to be founded in Kapenguria, the main town of the province where she comes from.
		Loroupe’s next goal is to qualify for the IAAF World Championships in Paris for either the 10,000 or 5000m.
	www.iaaf.org /news/Kind=2/newsId=21348.html (730 words)

	newStandard: 11/13/95 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		German Silva and Tegla Loroupe ran not only as defending champions, they ran to keep promises to the dead -- to his father, to her sister.
		Loroupe, 22, was running in memory of her 33-year-old sister Albina, who died Oct. 30 after severe stomach hemorrhaging and left behind four children ranging in age from 10 to 1.
		Loroupe, who said she would take care of her sister's children, was grieving the past two weeks.
	www.s-t.com /daily/11-95/11-13-95/marathon.htm (848 words)

	Loroupe, Silva return to New York City Marathon: 11/5/00 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Loroupe, now the world record-holder, again heads the women's field for today's race, the 25th through the city's five boroughs, and Silva is among the top men's contenders.
		Although Loroupe has not enjoyed the success in the New York City Marathon that she had five and six years ago, she still is considered a major celebrity in the city.
		Loroupe finished seventh in the 1996 New York City Marathon, seventh again in '97 and third in 1998.
	www.s-t.com /daily/11-00/11-05-00/b08sp072.htm (1033 words)

	Tegla Loroupe-1.53m dynamo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		So this is the secret to the extraordinary life that Tegla leads – her faith in Jesus Christ, her Lord who died for her wrongs and rose again, and sustains her through everything with that same power.
		Tegla Loroupe of Kenya on her way to third place in the 5000m during a Grand Prix meet at Crystal Palace in London.
		Tegla says that just as God encouraged Joshua in the Bible to “be strong and courageous for I am with you wherever you go” (Joshua 1:1-9), likewise she knows He is the one guiding her and “pushing me from behind” when she “feels like stopping sometimes”.
	www.clf.org.au /2004aug/tegla_loroupe.htm (738 words)

	Boston.com / 1999 Boston Marathon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Tegla Laroupe broke Ingrid Kristiansen's world marathon record for women last April, but some say she received "unfair assistance," including a male pacesetter (left) throughout the race.
		The controversy over Loroupe's performance erupted almost immediately after she crossed the finish line in a race that was geared toward producing a world record for both Loroupe and her male counterpart, Spain's Fabian Roncero.
		For Loroupe, the men who set the pace for her also shielded the diminutive Kenyan from the wind, allowing her to draft off them as would a bicyclist.
	www.boston.com /marathon/stories/kristianses0407.htm (855 words)

	ITDG - East Africa - Cattle-rustler-turned-athlete
		The peace race, a brainchild of Tegla Loroupe, former world Marathon record holder, in partnership with ITDGPractical Action, has attracted global attention for its innovative approach towards peace building process in the conflict prone pastoralist communities of East and the Horn of Africa region.
		The reward excited her and she began serious rehearsals and in September this year, Chemokil was delighted to win a whooping one million shillings at the 2004 Nairobi Standard Chartered marathon.
		The declining cases of cattle rustling in the region reported over the past one year could partly be attributed to the growing success of the Tegla Loroupe peace race.
	www.itdg.org /?id=peace6_run (1234 words)

	Oxfam Press Release: Kenyan athlete Tegla Loroupe brings the call to Make Poverty History to the 2005 Flora London ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Tegla Loroupe has used her passion for athletics to help people in her home region of West Pokot in Kenya through organising annual peace races to fundraise and build understanding between local communities affected by poverty and conflict.
		Tegla Loroupe can also be sponsored through www.oxfam.org.uk to raise money for street children in Nairobi and Mombassa in her home country of Kenya.
		Tegla Loroupe was the first African woman to win the New York marathon in 1994.
	oxfam.co.uk /press/releases/marathon_tegla.htm (557 words)

	ITDG - East Africa - Loroupe, Gebreselassie to run for peace in Kapenguria
		Tegla Loroupe and Haille Gebresselasie, renowned international athletes, will grace the inaugural Tegla Loroupe Peace Race, which will be held on 13th December 2003 in Kapenguria, West Pokot District, Kenya.
		She said it is difficult to point an accusing finger at one community since all of them engage in the vice.
		Other than Tegla, the elite athletes who will be on hand to lend their support on 13th December include Ethiopia’s double Olympic 10,000m champion Haile Gebresalassie and Adere Berhane who took the women’s World 10,000m title in Paris.
	www.itdg.org /?id=peace3_running_for_peace (697 words)

	Official Site of the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games
		Loroupe clocked two hours 20 minutes 43 seconds at the Berlin Marathon last September, the fastest time by a women, and will compete in the London marathon on April 16.
		Her manager Volker Wagner said Loroupe had recently been told by the Kenya athletics federation that she has to finish as one of the top two Kenyans home at the London marathon in order to be selected for the Sydney marathon.
		Loroupe has been demanding since last September that the Kenyan federation issue selection guidelines to their marathon runners and pre-select her so that she could prepare for the Olympic Games.
	pandora.nla.gov.au /parchive/2000/olympics/O2000-Sep-09/www.olympics.com/eng/news/200003/BLOG-4HWD2X.html (385 words)

	Cool Running :: Tegla Loroupe Wins 4th Avon Running Global Championship in Bangkok
		Loroupe is the 1999 Avon Running Global Champion, two-time winner of the New York City Marathon and former world record holder in the marathon.
		She was not intimidated by Loroupe and stayed with the champion for the first 5 Km.
		Previous Avon Running Global Championships were held in 1999 in New York City (Tegla Loroupe, winner); in 2000 in Milan, Italy (Sonia O'Sullivan, winner); and in 2001 in Budapest, Hungary (Catherine Ndereba, winner).
	www.coolrunning.com /engine/3/3_13/868.shtml (829 words)

	International Reporting Project - Fellows' Stories
		Tegla carried her math book wherever she went, and she posted far higher grades than her brother...
		When Tegla Loroupe began competing internationally in the early 1990s, she signed a contract with one of the only agents she could find who would represent a Kenyan girl.
		In 1994, Tegla gained worldwide fame when she became the first Kenyan woman to win the New York City Marathon, a victory that earned her thousands of dollars and a Mercedes.
	www.internationalreportingproject.org /stories/kenya/pf_kenya_ff2.htm (1893 words)

	New York '98 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Tegla is leading the women, with Petrova and Fernandez right with her and Fiaccone also in the pack.
		Tegla is holding on, even leading Fiaccone by a stride or two as they come out of the Bronx.
		Tegla is dragging it in alone, still in third in 2:30:27.
	www.runnersworld.com /events/nycm98/raceday.html (1908 words)

	CNNSI.com - Olympic Sports - Olympic Bio: Tegla Loroupe - Friday July 28, 2000 04:10 PM
		Like many people from her Kenyan homeland, Loroupe took up running simply as a means of transportation to and from school -- a distance of six miles each way.
		Loroupe burst onto the international scene in 1994, winning her New York City marathon debut and becoming the first African woman to win a major marathon.
		With her win in the 10,000 meters at the Kenyan nationals in July, Loroupe -- all 90 pounds of her -- is on her way to achieving her dream: to make history in Sydney by winning the 10,000 meters and the marathon, in which she has also qualified to compete.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /olympics/news/2000/07/27/loroupe_bio (216 words)

	LOROUPE: RADCLIFFE'S STILL THE BEST: Sporting Life \| 2012 Olympic Games in London, Superbikes, MotoGP, Rallying, ...
		Despite her tiny frame, Loroupe ran the distance in two hours 20 minutes and 43 seconds five years ago in Berlin and is the world's fifth fastest woman of all time.
		Loroupe, 13th four years ago at the Sydney Games, recalled: "There (Sydney) I had been running so well before the Games that everyone in Kenya thought it was a formality for me to gain the gold medal.
		Loroupe, herself a former London and New York champion, was 11th 12 days ago when Radcliffe clocked an exciting victory after taking part in the race at short notice.
	www.sportinglife.com /others/news/story_get.dor?STORY_NAME=others/04/11/19/ATHLETICS_Radcliffe.html (640 words)

	Running Network Archives
		TEGLA LOROUPE: I do not think anybody is going to run the world record in this course because too much uphill and downhill but, anyway, there are some people who know how to run downhill.
		TEGLA LOROUPE: One problem, I did have the back problem but the doctor who gave me a lot of problem was in New York and I was supposed to have that problem which I didn't have.
		TEGLA LOROUPE: I think we have to wait and see and we have to stay healthy until Sunday.
	www.runningnetworkarchives.com /results.phtml?username=atf&id=28702 (1153 words)

	Loroupe Captures Avon Running New York Mini Marathon Title
		Tegla Loroupe of Kenya finishing first at the Avon Running New York Mini Marathon held in Central Park on Saturday, May 22nd.
		Loroupe was awarded $15,000 for winning the 28th running of the prestigious all-women's 10K race, which she finished in 31 minutes and 48 seconds.
		"Tegla was too fast at that point to keep up with but I thought I might be able to catch her later." Loroupe entered the day as the race favorite based on her impressive record in New York.
	www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/05-22-1999/0000946184&EDATE= (1029 words)

	Ace Loroupe forms peace foundation
		The initiative to be known as the Tegla Loroupe Peace Foundation was launched on Monday night by a Minister in the Office of the Vice President, Linah Jebii Kilimo.
		Speaking during the function, Loroupe said the foundation was a charity organisation, whose purpose was to support and further initiatives that promote peace among the people in the conflict and civil strife hit areas.
		Loroupe said the foundation has also acquired 22 acres of land in West Pokot District to build an academy that will provide learning opportunities for children displaced or orphaned by conflict and HIV/Aids in the Greater Horn of Africa region.
	www.eastandard.net /archives/june/wed23062004/sports/sport23060411.htm (329 words)

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