Tegla Loroupe

Kenyan long-distance runner (born 1979)
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Tegla Loroupe

Summary

Tegla Loroupe is a human[1]. Her place of birth was Kapsait[2]. She was born on +1973-05-09T00:00:00Z[3]. She worked as a marathon runner[4], long-distance runner[5], and athletics competitor[6]. She ranks in the top 0.72% of human entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (160 views/month, #7,162 of 1,000,298).[7]

Key Facts

  • Tegla Loroupe's place of birth was Kapsait[2].
  • Tegla Loroupe was born on +1973-05-09T00:00:00Z[3].
  • Tegla Loroupe held citizenship in Kenya[8].
  • Tegla Loroupe's professions included marathon runner[4].
  • Tegla Loroupe's professions included long-distance runner[5].
  • Tegla Loroupe worked as an athletics competitor[6].
  • Tegla Loroupe's image is recorded as Tegla Loroupe Rio2016.jpg[9].
  • Tegla Loroupe is recorded as female[10].
  • Tegla Loroupe's instance of is recorded as human[11].
  • Tegla Loroupe's Commons category is recorded as Tegla Loroupe[12].
  • Tegla Loroupe's sport is recorded as athletics[13].
  • Tegla Loroupe's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/02vph2[14].
  • Tegla Loroupe's family name is recorded as Loroupe[15].
  • Tegla Loroupe's given name is recorded as Tegla[16].
  • Tegla Loroupe's official website is recorded as http://www.tegla-loroupe.de/[17].
  • Tegla Loroupe's World Athletics athlete ID is recorded as 14289238[18].
  • Tegla Loroupe's Munzinger Sport number is recorded as 01000004513[19].
  • Tegla Loroupe's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0263214[20].
  • Tegla Loroupe's participant in is recorded as 2000 Summer Olympics[21].
  • Tegla Loroupe's participant in is recorded as 1996 Summer Olympics[22].
  • Tegla Loroupe's participant in is recorded as 1992 Summer Olympics[23].
  • Tegla Loroupe's languages spoken, written or signed is recorded as English[24].
  • Tegla Loroupe's Sports-Reference.com Olympic athlete ID is recorded as lo/tegla-loroupe-1[25].
  • Tegla Loroupe's country for sport is recorded as Kenya[26].
  • Tegla Loroupe's GTAA ID is recorded as 127374[27].

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Origins and Family

Tegla Loroupe was born in Kapsait[2]. She was born on +1973-05-09T00:00:00Z[3].

Career and Affiliations

Recorded occupations include marathon runner[4], long-distance runner[5], and athletics competitor[6].

Why It Matters

Tegla Loroupe ranks in the top 0.72% of human entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (160 views/month, #7,162 of 1,000,298).[7] She has Wikipedia articles in 16 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] She is known by 11 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

FAQs

Where was Tegla Loroupe born?

Tegla Loroupe was born in Kapsait[2].

What did Tegla Loroupe do for work?

Tegla Loroupe worked as marathon runner[4], long-distance runner[5], and athletics competitor[6].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [9] . wikidata.org.
  2. [2] . wikidata.org.
  3. [10] . wikidata.org.
  4. [8] . wikidata.org.
  5. [11] . wikidata.org.
  6. [4] . wikidata.org.
  7. [5] . wikidata.org.
  8. [6] . wikidata.org.
  9. [12] . wikidata.org.
  10. [3] . World Athletics database. wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . World Athletics database. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [7] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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