Tegla Loroupe donated bodysuit (© IAAF)
Kenya’s Tegla Loroupe who won three consecutive IAAF World Half Marathon Championships titles from 1997 to 1999 has donated her Kenyan bodysuit and running shoes to the IAAF humanitarian project Athletics for a Better World.
An excellent road runner, Loroupe set two World best performances in the Marathon in 1998 and 1999. The IAAF introduced official World records for Marathon in January 2003.
Loroupe’s Marathon best of 2:20:43 set in Berlin (on the same course where Paul Tergat set the men’s Marathon record) still stands as the 12th best performance of all-time!
Throughout her career, Loroupe also set World record times at 20,000m, One Hour, 25,000m and 30,000m.
At the Helsinki World Championships, Loroupe was part of the Kenyan squad that took the World Marathon Cup gold medal.
Loroupe, whose 3rd edition of the Tegla Loroupe Race for Peace is held this coming Saturday 19 November in Eldoret, Kenya, is an outstanding ambassador of our sport and has been extremely proactive in supporting the spread of peace in her native Kenya and around the world.
Loroupe’s autographed bodysuit and running shoes will be auctioned at the end of the year and all profits donated to the United Nations Associations: FAO, UNICEF and WFP.
