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Rita Jeptoo
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KENYA
BIRTHDATE:
15 February 1981
PERSONAL BEST:
2:22:04 (Chicago, 2012)
WORLD MARATHON MAJOR HIGHLIGHTS:
15Apr13 Boston Marathon 1st 2:26:25
07Oct12 Bank of america Chicago Marathon 2nd 2:22:04
16Apr12 Boston Marathon 6th 2:35:53
02Nov08 ING New York City Marathon 4th 2:27:49
21Apr08 Boston Marathon 3rd 2:26:34
02Sep07 IAAF World Championships Marathon, Osaka 7th 2:32:03
16Apr07 Boston Marathon 4th 2:33:08
05Nov06 ING New York City Marathon 4th 2:26:59
17Apr06 Boston Marathon 1st 2:23:38
14Aug05 IAAF World Championships Marathon, Helsinki 7th 2:24:22
ADDITIONAL CAREER HIGHLIGHTS:
20Nov11 Eldoret Marathon 1st 2:36:15
30Oct11 Frankfurt Marathon 5th 2:25:44
10Apr11 Rotterdam Marathon 5th 2:28:09
17Apr05 Turin Marathon 3rd 2:31:50
28Nov04 Milan City Marathon 1st 2:28:11
05Jun04 Stockholm Marathon 1st 2:35:14
CAREER NOTES:
Jeptoo entered international competition in 2000 racing primarily in Italy on the roads and in cross country meets. Her transition to the marathon was successful. After winning Stockholm in the spring of 2004, she trimmed more than seven minutes off her time to win Milan five months later. She improved her time again with a seventh-place finish at the 2005 World Championships (2:24:22).
She claimed her first international championships medal with a bronze at the 2006 IAAF World Road Running Championships 20-K with a time of 1:03:47, just 21 seconds off the pre-race world record. Jeptoo then had a dramatic finish at the ING New York City Marathon, getting edged into fourth place by just one second to Catherine Ndereba.
Jeptoo found the weather conditions at the 2007 Boston Marathon tough going, but she held on for fourth place and picked up 10 valuable points in the World Marathon Majors series.
In 2008 she was third and fourth and the Boston and New York City Marathons. After returning to WMM competition in April 2012 where she was sixth, Jeptoo knocked her PR down to 2:22:04 with a narrow one second defeat at the 2012 Chicago Marathon.
Jeptoo then claimed her second Boston triumph running 2:26:25 at the 2013 race, winning by 33 seconds.
PERSONAL NOTES:
Rita Sitienei Jeptoo was inspired by the great Kenyan marathoner Tegla Loroupe. She continues to spend a lot of time Italy because of her interest in fashion and her hobbies include knitting clothes for husband Noah Busienei, a 1500 meters runner with the Kenyan Armed Forces.