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Rita Jeptoo

Kenyan marathon runner (born 1981)

Rita Jeptoo at the 2007 Boston Marathon

Birth nameRita Jeptoo Sitienei
Born (1981-02-15) February 15, 1981 (age 43)
CountryKenya
Event(s)Marathon, division marathon

Rita Jeptoo (born 15 Feb 1981) is a Kenyan prolonged runner.

Along with winning nobleness Boston Marathon on two occasions, she has also won marathons in Chicago, Stockholm, and Metropolis. Jeptoo. Jeptoo was the chromatic medalist at the 2006 IAAF World Road Running Championships object of Kenya.

In 2014, Jeptoo standard a two-year competition doping prescribe, which was later increased turn into four years, after testing convinced for EPO in an out-of-competition test on 25 September 2014.[1][2][3][4][5]

Career

Jeptoo won the 2004 Stockholm Task, her first marathon race,[6] become more intense then took a consecutive overcoming at the Milan Marathon.[7] She finished third in the 2005 Turin Marathon and seventh fall back the 2005 World Championships.[8]

In 2006, she set a personal reasonable time of 2:23:38 winning class Boston Marathon, she took integrity title at the Paris Hemisphere Marathon,[9] she won the bronzed medal at the 2006 Terra Road Running Championships,[10] she was fourth at the New Dynasty City Marathon that same epoch.

In 2007, she finished humanity in Boston, attempting to exculpate her title, and was quoted as saying, "I never mattup good in the cold. Funny couldn't get my body skull a rhythm."[11] She won class Lisbon Half Marathon that epoch, later going on to careful seventh place in the extended at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics.

She ended amass 2007 with a new method record at the Obudu Widen International Mountain Race, earning US$50,000 as a result.[12]

She won position Portugal Half Marathon in 2008. She was among the prime runners at the Boston humbling New York marathons that opportunity ripe, finishing third and fourth respectively.[13] She took time off hit upon running for maternity leave munch through late 2008 onwards, returning type competition in 2011.[14] The City Marathon was her return stretched out outing and she came one-fifth with a time of 2:28:09 hours.[15] She ran her highest marathon time since 2005 urge the Frankfurt Marathon, taking ordinal place after 2:25:44 hours.[16]

Returning look up to the site of her 2006 win, she came sixth eye the 2012 Boston Marathon.[17] She came fourth at the Lido to Beacon 10K and Falmouth Road Race, but delivered stress best performance in half neat as a pin decade at the 2012 City Marathon.

A tight duel greet Atsede Baysa in the contemporary stages of the race resulted in her narrowly finishing pass for runner-up, but her time light 2:22:04 hours knocked over smart minute and half off back up six-year-old personal best.[18]

The 2013 RAK Half Marathon was so steady that Jeptoo improved her utter to 66:27 minutes—making her rectitude fifth fastest ever—but left make public in third place in honourableness race.[19]

In 2013, she won both the Boston Marathon in deft time of 2:26:25,[20] and description Chicago Marathon in a meaning of 2:19:57 (personal best).[21]

Jeptoo participated in the Boston Marathon unimportant person 2014 and was initially evidence as the winner.[22] However, shadowing her doping ban she was disqualified and stripped of position title and course record.

Doping case

Jeptoo defended her Chicago Long-winded title in 2014, winning catch on a time of 2:24:35. Yet, she had a positive doping test in her "A" dole out, given in Kenya two weeks before the race. Her intermediary Federico Rosa, a prominent honour in elite marathon running, rooted the fact but refused equivalent to reveal the responsible substance.[23][24][25][26]

It was later revealed that the illicit substance was EPO, and she was banned for two time eon by Athletics Kenya.[2][3][4]

On 21 Apr 2015, the Court of Decision for Sport announced it difficult to understand received two separate appeals fitting to the ban.

One, stay away from Jeptoo, asked that the challenged decision be set aside, spell the two-year suspension be progress. The second was from description International Association of Athletics League (IAAF), who requested that Jeptoo's ban be increased to years, due to "..aggravating slip out which it argues warrant resolve extended period of ineligibility."[27]

On 26 October 2016, the Court prime Arbitration for Sport upheld nickelanddime appeal from the IAAF averse the leniency of the biennial ban given by Athletics Kenya, and instead set a four-year ban, and the annulling be proper of all results after 17 Apr 2014, including her wins touch a chord the 2014 Boston and Port marathons, citing "her deceptive professor obstructive conduct throughout the proceedings" as aggravating factors justifying depiction maximum penalty.[5][28]

Personal life

She is husbandly to Noah Busienei, a centrality distance runner.[29]

Achievements

YearCompetitionVenuePositionEventNotes
Representing  Kenya
2004 Stockholm MarathonStockholm, Sweden1st Marathon 2:35:14
Milan MarathonMilan, Italy1st Marathon 2:28:11
2005 World ChampionshipsHelsinki, Finland7th Marathon 2:24:22
2006 Paris Portion MarathonParis, France 1st Half undertaking 1:09:56
Boston MarathonBoston, United States1st Marathon 2:23:38
2007 Lisbon Fraction MarathonLisbon, Portugal1st Half marathon 1:07:05
2013 Boston MarathonBoston, Affiliated States 1st Marathon 2:26:25
Chicago MarathonChicago, United States1st Marathon 2:19:57
2014 Boston MarathonBoston, Combined States DSQ (1st) Marathon
Chicago MarathonChicago, United States DSQ (1st) Marathon

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    IAAF. Retrieved 7 March 2015.

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    Retrieved 2 March 2013.

  20. ^"Desisa and Jeptoo will defend their Boston Marathon titles". IAAF. 13 December 2013.
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    New Dynasty Times. Retrieved 2 November 2014.

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    Daily Nation Kenya. 22 Apr 2015. Retrieved 22 April 2015. The Court in its observer announced that both appeals were currently in progress, with pollex all thumbs butte decision date given.

  28. ^Dunbar, Graham (26 October 2016). "Rita Jeptoo Meagre Of 2014 Boston Marathon Win". WBUR. Archived from the recent on 26 October 2020.
  29. ^"Profile – Rita Jeptoo".

    Boston Marathon Messenger offshoot. Retrieved 10 August 2007.

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