Marie-Luce Romanens
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Marie-Luce Romanens (born 19 January 1973) is a Swiss orienteering
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World-of-O-runners: Marie-Luce Romanens
(Retrieved on December 8, 2007)
and long-distance runner. She won the 1995 Short distance
World Orienteering Championships The World Orienteering Championships (or WOC for short) is an annual orienteering event organized by the International Orienteering Federation. The first World Championships was held in Fiskars, Finland in 1966. They were held biennially up to 2 ...
.World Orienteering Championship, senior statistics 1966-2006
(Retrieved on November 25, 2007)
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 The Jungfrau Marathon is one of the best known mountain marathons in the world, in full view of the famous Eiger, Mönch, and Jungfrau mountains in the Bernese Oberland area of the Swiss Alps. The first Jungfrau Marathon was held in 1993. A ...
Birgitte Wolf:
Grosse Schweizer Sportlerin beendedt Karriere
" ''Schweizerische Orientierungslauf-Fachschrift'', 11/2004 (Retrieved on December 8, 2007)
running from
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to
Kleine Scheidegg The Kleine Scheidegg ( en, Little Scheidegg) is a mountain pass at an elevation of , situated below and between the Eiger and Lauberhorn peaks in the Bernese Oberland region of Switzerland. The name means "minor watershed", as it only divides the ...
, 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.IAAF Biography: Marie-Luce ROMANENS (SUI)
(Retrieved on December 8, 2007)
Marie-Luce Romanens finished her running career in 2003 due to
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problems, and settled in
Villars-sur-Glâne Villars-sur-Glâne (; frp, Velârs-sur-Gllânna ) is a municipality in the district of Sarine in the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland. Geography Villars-sur-Glâne has an area, , of . Of this area, or 29.3% is used for agricultural purpose ...
as a biology and chemistry teacher.


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* 1973 births Living people Swiss female long-distance runners Swiss orienteers Female orienteers Foot orienteers World Orienteering Championships medalists Junior World Orienteering Championships medalists {{Switzerland-orienteering-bio-stub