Roger Quemener (17 June 1941 – 18 July 2021) was a French racewalker, who was a legend of the

Ultramarathon An ultramarathon is a footrace longer than the traditional marathon distance of . The sport of running ultramarathons is called ultra running or ultra distance running. Various distances, surfaces, and formats are raced competitively, from the ...

race

Paris-Colmar Paris-Colmar is an annual racewalking competition covering about 445 kilometers for men, and 300 kilometers for women and for men who participate for the first time. The competition began in 1926 as race from Strasbourg to Paris. The contest fo ...

winning seven times. He thus had the record number of wins, until Polish racewalker

Grzegorz Adam Urbanowski Grzegorz Adam Urbanowski (born 24 December 1959 in Pultusk), Polish ultramarathon racewalker. Sports career started as a cyclist, then for a short period competed in long-distance running, finally settling on a sporty gait. In 1990, he won the ...

brought it to ten wins.

Career

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descent, Quemener joined the Parisian police in 1963, and later became a member of the ''AS Police Paris''

sporting association A sports club or sporting club, sometimes an athletics club or sports society or sports association, is a group of people formed for the purpose of playing sports. Sports clubs range from organisations whose members play together, unpaid, and ...

. He only started top-level sport at 28 years old. He contested mainly long-distance races, he was French champion in the 100 kilometers in 1971, 1972 and 1975. In 1979 Quemener won the classic Paris-Strasbourg. Subsequently, he won the same race in 1983, known as

since 1981, and five times consecutively from 1985 to 1989. He used to stop to get shaved before the arrival at Colmar to cross the finish line with a clean-shaven face. Later Quemener became deputy director of the competition.www.cybermarcheur.com
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Awards

120px Golden medal of Youth and Sports - 1986

References

External links

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1941 births 2021 deaths French ultramarathon runners French police officers French male race walkers French people of Breton descent Male ultramarathon runners 20th-century French sportsmen {{France-ultradistance-bio-stub