Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Kungiyar 'yan wasan motsa jiki ta Kenya, Athletics Kenya, ba ta goyi bayanta ba da farko, tana tunanin Loroupe ya yi karami da kuma siriri. Amma, bayan da ta lashe tseren ƙafar ƙafa a shekara ta 1988, hakan ya canja. Ta fara horarwa don yin gasa a duniya a shekara mai zuwa, ta sami takalmanta na farko a shekara ta 1989, wanda ta sa kawai don tseren tsere. An zabi ta ne don tseren matasa na 1989 IAAF World Cross Country Championships wanda ya kammala na 28. Ta sake fafatawa a gasar tseren tsere ta duniya ta 1990 IAAF
, ya gama na 16 a tseren matasa.