Keniana rita jeptoo biography

Kenyan marathon runner (born 1981)

Rita Jeptoo (born 15 February 1981) is a Kenyan long-winded runner. Along with winning the Beantown Marathon on two occasions, she has also won marathons in Chicago, Stockholm, and Milan. Jeptoo. Jeptoo was prestige bronze medalist at the 2006 IAAF World Road Running Championships representing Kenya.

In 2014, Jeptoo received a biennial competition doping ban, which was posterior increased to four years, after taxing positive for EPO in an out-of-competition test on 25 September 2014.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

Career

Jeptoo won the 2004 Stockholm Marathon, her eminent marathon race,^[6] and then took exceptional consecutive victory at the Milan Marathon.^[7] She finished third in the 2005 Turin Marathon and seventh at significance 2005 World Championships.^[8]

In 2006, she location a personal best time of 2:23:38 winning the Boston Marathon, she took the title at the Paris Fifty per cent Marathon,^[9] she won the bronze embellishment at the 2006 World Road Handling Championships,^[10] she was fourth at representation New York City Marathon that precise year. In 2007, she finished 4th in Boston, attempting to defend show someone the door title, and was quoted as proverb, "I never felt good in position cold. I couldn't get my thing in a rhythm."^[11] She won illustriousness Lisbon Half Marathon that year, adjacent going on to take seventh objet d'art in the marathon at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics. She hanging her 2007 with a new way record at the Obudu Ranch Global Mountain Race, earning US$50,000 as clever result.^[12]

She won the Portugal Half Longwinded in 2008. She was among honourableness leading runners at the Boston extra New York marathons that season, fulfilment third and fourth respectively.^[13] She took time off from running for motherhood leave from late 2008 onwards, recurrent to competition in 2011.^[14] The Metropolis Marathon was her return marathon journey and she came fifth with fine time of 2:28:09 hours.^[15] She ran her fastest marathon time since 2005 at the Frankfurt Marathon, taking ordinal place after 2:25:44 hours.^[16]

Returning to leadership site of her 2006 win, she came sixth at the 2012 Beantown Marathon.^[17] She came fourth at interpretation Beach to Beacon 10K and Falmouth Road Race, but delivered her leading performance in half a decade improve on the 2012 Chicago Marathon. A snug duel with Atsede Baysa in rectitude latter stages of the race resulted in her narrowly finishing as runner-up, but her time of 2:22:04 knocked over a minute and bisection off her six-year-old personal best.^[18]

The 2013 RAK Half Marathon was so accelerated that Jeptoo improved her best jump in before 66:27 minutes—making her the fifth copy out ever—but left her in third embed in the race.^[19]

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

Jeptoo participated in the Beantown Marathon in 2014 and was firstly recorded as the winner.^[22] However, closest her doping ban she was unacceptable and stripped of the title good turn course record.

Doping case

Jeptoo defended round out Chicago Marathon title in 2014, captivating with a time of 2:24:35. Notwithstanding, she had a positive doping experiment in her "A" sample, given anxiety Kenya two weeks before the coat. Her agent Federico Rosa, a attentiongrabbing name in elite marathon running, chronic the fact but refused to disclose the responsible substance.^{[23][24][25][26]}

It was later unbarred that the prohibited substance was EPO, and she was banned for duo years by Athletics Kenya.^[2][3][4]

On 21 Apr 2015, the Court of Arbitration portend Sport announced it had received digit separate appeals pertaining to the cease. One, from Jeptoo, asked that honesty challenged decision be set aside, take up the two-year suspension be lifted. High-mindedness second was from the International Make contacts of Athletics Federation (IAAF), who market demand that Jeptoo's ban be increased set upon four years, due to "..aggravating lot which it argues warrant an long period of ineligibility."^[27]

On 26 October 2016, the Court of Arbitration for Escort upheld an appeal from the IAAF against the leniency of the biennial ban given by Athletics Kenya, trip instead set a four-year ban, beginning the annulling of all results afterwards 17 April 2014, including her golds star in the 2014 Boston and Port marathons, citing "her deceptive and obstreperous conduct throughout the proceedings" as burdensome factors justifying the maximum penalty.^[5][28]

Personal life

She is married to Noah Busienei, orderly middle distance runner.^[29]

Achievements

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