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Rita Jeptoo (born 15 February 1981) is a Kenyan
marathon runner
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. Originally a winner of the
Boston Marathon
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three times, including setting the then course record at 2:18:57 in
2014
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, she had also won marathons in Chicago, Stockholm, and Milan, as well as having represented Kenya in the event at the
2007 World Championships in Athletics
The 11th World Championships in Athletics, () under the auspices of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), were held at Nagai Stadium in Osaka, Japan from 24 August to 2 September 2007. 200 of the IAAF's 212 member federat ...
. She was the bronze medalist at the
2006 IAAF World Road Running Championships
The 1st IAAF World Road Running Championships were held in Debrecen, Hungary on 8 October 2006, the women's race starting at 11:00 and the men's race at 13:00. This was the first time the title of World Road Running Champion had been competed for ...
.
Jeptoo tested positive for
EPO in an out-of-competition test 25 September 2014. Athletics Kenya handed her a two-year ban from sports for the anti-doping rule violation.
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Marathon champ Rita Jeptoo receives two-year ban for positive drug test
30 January 2015. Retrieved 10 February 2015. On 26 October 2016, the
Court of Arbitration for Sport
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upheld an appeal from the IAAF against the leniency of the two-year ban given by Athletics Kenya, and instead set a four-year ban, and the annulling of all results from 17 April 2014, including her wins in the
2014 Boston and
Chicago
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marathons, citing "her deceptive and obstructive conduct throughout the proceedings" as aggravating factors justifying the maximum penalty
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Career
Jeptoo won the 2004 Stockholm Marathon
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, her first marathon race, and then took a consecutive victory at the Milan Marathon
The Milano City Marathon is a marathon race held every April in Milan, Italy. It was first organised in 2000 by the Milano City Marathon Club and the first nine editions were held in November.
History
The 2009 edition of the race, initially se ...
. She finished third in the 2005 Turin Marathon
The Turin Marathon ( it, Maratona di Torino Gran Premio La Stampa) is an annual marathon race which takes place in Turin, Italy in November.
History
The first edition of the modern race was held in 1987, although other marathon competitions have ...
and seventh at the 2005 World Championships.
In 2006, she set a personal best time of 2:23:38 winning the Boston Marathon
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, she took the title at the Paris Half Marathon
Paris Half Marathon (''French: Semi-marathon de Paris''), known as the Harmonie Mutuelle Semi de Paris for sponsorship reasons, is an annual half marathon held every March in Paris, France since 1993.
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, she won the bronze medal
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at the 2006 World Road Running Championships, she was fourth at the New York City Marathon
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that same year. In 2007, she finished fourth in Boston, attempting to defend her title, and was quoted as saying, "I never felt good in the cold. I couldn't get my body in a rhythm." She won the Lisbon Half Marathon
EDP Lisbon Half Marathon is an annual international half marathon competition which is contested every March in Lisbon, Portugal. It carries IAAF Gold Label Road Race status. The men's course record of 57:31 was set by Jacob Kiplimo in 2021, whi ...
that year, later going on to take seventh place in the marathon at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics
The 11th World Championships in Athletics, () under the auspices of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), were held at Nagai Stadium in Osaka, Japan from 24 August to 2 September 2007. 200 of the IAAF's 212 member federat ...
. She ended her 2007 with a new course record at the Obudu Ranch International Mountain Race
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, earning US$50,000 as a result.
She won the Portugal Half Marathon
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in 2008. She was among the leading runners at the Boston and New York marathons that season, finishing third and fourth respectively. She took time off from running for maternity leave
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from late 2008 onwards, returning to competition in 2011. The Rotterdam Marathon
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was her return marathon outing and she came fifth with a time of 2:28:09 hours. She ran her fastest marathon time since 2005 at the Frankfurt Marathon
The Frankfurt Marathon (official name as of 2016: Mainova Frankfurt Marathon, until 2015: BMW Frankfurt Marathon, until 2010: Commerzbank Frankfurt Marathon) is a marathon which has taken place every year in Frankfurt am Main since its inception i ...
, taking fifth place after 2:25:44 hours.
Returning to the site of her 2006 win, she came sixth at the 2012 Boston Marathon
The 2012 Boston Marathon took place in Boston, Massachusetts on Monday April 16, 2012. It was the 116th edition of the mass-participation marathon. Organized by the Boston Athletic Association, it was the first of the World Marathon Majors seri ...
. She came fourth at the Beach to Beacon 10K
The Toronto-Dominion Bank Beach to Beacon 10K is a road running event that takes place along the coastline of Cape Elizabeth, Maine. It begins at Crescent Beach State Park and ends at the Portland Head Light in Fort Williams Park.
Starting out ...
and Falmouth Road Race
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The race organizer is Falmouth Road Race, Inc., a 501(c)(3) organization that puts on the race e ...
, but delivered her best performance in half a decade at the 2012 Chicago Marathon
The 2012 Chicago Marathon was the 35th edition of the annual marathon race in Chicago, Illinois and was held on Sunday, October 7. An IAAF Gold Label Road Race, it was the fourth and final World Marathon Majors event to be held that year. Tsega ...
. A tight duel with Atsede Baysa
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in the latter stages of the race resulted in her narrowly finishing as runner-up, but her time of 2:22:04 hours knocked over a minute and half off her six-year-old personal best.
The 2013 RAK Half Marathon
Ras Al Khaimah Half Marathon is an annual half marathon held in Ras Al Khaimah, United Arab Emirates.
History
The first event, in 2007, saw Samuel Wanjiru breaking the world record, but Wanjiru himself set a new world record only a month later in ...
was so fast that Jeptoo improved her best to 66:27 minutes—making her the fifth fastest ever—but left her in third place in the race.
In 2013, she won both the Boston Marathon
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in a time of 2:26:25, and the Chicago Marathon
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in a time of 2:19:57 (personal best).
Jeptoo defended her Boston Marathon title in 2014, winning with a time of 2:18:57 and setting a new course record.
Doping case
Jeptoo defended her Chicago Marathon title in 2014, winning with a time of 2:24:35. However, she had a positive doping test in her "A" sample, given in Kenya two weeks before the race. Her agent Federico Rosa Federico (; ) is a given name and surname. It is a form of Frederick, most commonly found in Spanish, Portuguese and Italian.
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, a prominent name in elite marathon running, confirmed the fact but refused to reveal the responsible substance.
It was later revealed that the prohibited substance was EPO, and she was banned for two years by Athletics Kenya
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.
On 21 April 2015, the Court of Arbitration for Sport
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announced it had received two separate appeals pertaining to the ban. One, from Jeptoo, asked that the challenged decision be set aside, and the two-year suspension be lifted. The second was from the International Association of Athletics Federation (IAAF), who requested that Jeptoo's ban be increased to four years, due to "..aggravating circumstances which it argues warrant an extended period of ineligibility."[ The Court in its statement announced that both appeals were currently in progress, with no decision date given.]
On 26 October 2016, the Court of Arbitration for Sport
The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS; french: Tribunal arbitral du sport, ''TAS'') is an international body established in 1984 to settle disputes related to sport through arbitration. Its headquarters are in Lausanne, Switzerland and its co ...
upheld an appeal from the IAAF against the leniency of the two-year ban given by Athletics Kenya, and instead set a four-year ban, and the annulling of all results from 17 April 2016, including her wins in the 2014 Boston and Chicago
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marathons, citing "her deceptive and obstructive conduct throughout the proceedings" as aggravating factors justifying the maximum penalty.
Personal life
She is married to Noah Busienei, a middle distance runner.Boston Marathon Runner Profile – Rita Jeptoo
Retrieved 10 August 2007
Achievements
References
External links
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1981 births
Living people
Kenyan female long-distance runners
Kenyan female marathon runners
People from Uasin Gishu County
World Athletics Championships athletes for Kenya
Boston Marathon female winners
Doping cases in athletics
Kenyan sportspeople in doping cases
Chicago Marathon female winners
21st-century Kenyan women
20th-century Kenyan women