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| Roman Kejžar | |
| Birth Date: | 11 February 1966 |
| Birth Place: | Kranj, SR Slovenia, SFR Yugoslavia |
| Weight: | 620NaN0 |
| Sport: | Athletics |
| Event: | Marathon |
| Club: | AK Velenje |
| Pb: | Half-marathon: 1:02:49 (2000) Marathon: 2:11:50 (2000) |
Roman Kejžar (born 11 February 1966 in Kranj) is a Slovenian long-distance and marathon runner.[1] He is a three-time Olympian, and a 2004 national marathon champion. He also set both a national record and a personal best time of 2:11:50 at the 2000 Turin Marathon, earning him a spot on the Slovenian team for the Olympics.[2]
At age thirty-four, Kejzar made his official debut for the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, where he placed sixty-second out of a hundred runners in the men's marathon, with a time of 2:26:38, fourteen seconds behind Tanzania's Zebedayo Bayo. He displayed a stellar performance at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, when he finished fifty-fourth in the marathon for the second time, posting his best Olympic career time of 2:23:34.
Eight years after competing in his first Olympics, Kejzar qualified for his third Slovenian team, as a 42-year-old, at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, by placing nineteenth and reaching an A-standard time of 2:17:26 from the 2007 Berlin Marathon.[3] He successfully finished the race in sixty-seventh place by nine seconds behind Mexico's Francisco Bautista, with a time of 2:29:37.[4]