Marie-Luce Romanens Explained

Marie-Luce Romanens (born 19 January 1973) is a Swiss orienteering competitor[1] and long-distance runner. She won the 1995 Short distance World Orienteering Championships.[2] This was the first individual Swiss gold medal in the World Orienteering Championships. She also earned a silver medal in the 2003 Sprint Championships, and a Relay bronze medal from the 1997 World Championships.

In 2001, she won the mountain race Jungfrau Marathon[3] running from Interlaken to Kleine Scheidegg, a full marathon distance and 1823 meter climb, setting record for women (3:21:03). Her personal record on ordinary marathon is 2:35:54.[4]

Marie-Luce Romanens finished her running career in 2003 due to achilles problems,[3] and settled in Villars-sur-Glâne as a biology and chemistry teacher.

References

  1. http://www.runners.worldofo.com/marieluceromanens.html World-of-O-runners: Marie-Luce Romanens
  2. http://old.orientering.no/resultater/vmres.asp World Orienteering Championship, senior statistics 1966-2006
  3. Birgitte Wolf: "Grosse Schweizer Sportlerin beendedt Karriere " Schweizerische Orientierungslauf-Fachschrift, 11/2004 (Retrieved on December 8, 2007)
  4. http://www.iaaf.org/athletes/athlete=71206/BioPopUp.html IAAF Biography: Marie-Luce ROMANENS (SUI)