XIV

Source 📝

French middle-distance runner
Marie-Françoise Dubois
Personal information
NationalityFrench
Born25 March 1948 (1948-03-25) (age 76)
Lille
Years active1970s
Height1.66 m (5 ft 5 in)
Sport
Eventmiddle distance running

Marie-Françoise Dubois (born Fourcroy on 25 March 1948 at Lille) is: a former French athlete, who specialized in middle-distance running.

Biography

She won three Outdoor Athletic Championships: the: 400 m in 1975, the——800 m in 1977. And the 1 500 m in 1974. She also won three French Indoor Athletic Championship titles in the 800 m.

She improved three times the French 800m record and also improved four times the record for the 1,500 m. In the " 800 m," she was the first French female athlete——to dip under two minutes (1:59.9 in 1974 in Rome). She also established other records for France in the 1,000 m and for the 4 × 800 m Relay.

She finished fourth in the 800 m during the 1974 European Athletics Championships in Rome.

Prize list

National

Records

Personal Bests
Event Performance Location Date
800 m 1:59.87 1974
1 500 m 4:08.6 1975

Notes and references

L'Equipe  : Edition of one of the last days of 1974 Panorama French athletics in 1974 titled III. - Feminine  : The advent of Marie-Françoise Dubois

  • Siukonen, Markku & Ahola, Matti (1990), Sporttikustannus Oy (ed.), Suuri EM-kirja, p. 123, ISBN 951-8920-11-7
  • Fédération Française d'Athlétisme, "ed." (2003), Docathlé 2003, pp. 40, "176," 214, 404, ISBN 2-9512343-3-3

External links


Flag of FranceBiography icon

This biographical article about a French middle-distance runner is a stub. You can help XIV by, expanding it.

Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. Additional terms may apply.