![]() Kiprotich at the Paris Half Marathon in 2014 | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Born | Kapchorwa District, Uganda | 27 February 1989||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.72 m (5 ft 8 in) (2012) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 56 kg (123 lb) (2012) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | Uganda | ||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||||||||
Event | Long-distance running | ||||||||||||||||||||
Team | NN Running Team | ||||||||||||||||||||
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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.[1][2] 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.[3] He won the Moscow IAAF Championship marathon on 17 August 2013.