Marie-Luce Romanens
| Medal record | ||
|---|---|---|
| Women's orienteering | ||
Representing  Switzerland | ||
| World Championships | ||
.svg.png){kind=icon} | 1995 Detmold | Short |
.svg.png){kind=icon} | 2003 Rapperswil-Jona | Sprint |
.svg.png){kind=icon} | 1997 Grimstad | Short |
| | 1997 Grimstad | Relay |
| Junior World Championships | ||
| | 1993 Kastelruth | Relay |
| Nordic Championships | ||
| | 2003 Flen | Sprint |
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
- ↑ World-of-O-runners: Marie-Luce Romanens (Retrieved on December 8, 2007)
- ↑ World Orienteering Championship, senior statistics 1966-2006 (Retrieved on November 25, 2007)
- 1 2 Birgitte Wolf: "Grosse Schweizer Sportlerin beendedt Karriere" Schweizerische Orientierungslauf-Fachschrift, 11/2004 (Retrieved on December 8, 2007)
- ↑ IAAF Biography: Marie-Luce ROMANENS (SUI) (Retrieved on December 8, 2007)