Vincent Rousseau (born 29 July 1962 in

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, Hainaut) is a former

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from

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, who competed in three consecutive

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for his native country, starting in 1984. In 1993, he had his biggest success by winning the

IAAF World Half Marathon Championships The World Athletics Half Marathon Championships is a biennial international half marathon competition organised by World Athletics. The competition was launched as the IAAF World Half Marathon Championships in 1992 and held annually until 2010. It ...

Brussels Brussels (french: Bruxelles or ; nl, Brussel ), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (french: link=no, Région de Bruxelles-Capitale; nl, link=no, Bruss ...

, the next year followed by the first place in the

Rotterdam Marathon The Rotterdam Marathon, currently branded NN Rotterdam Marathon, is an annual marathon that has been held in Rotterdam, Netherlands since 1981. It has been held in April every year since the third edition in 1984 and attracts many top athletes. ...

. Twice (1985 and 1993) Rousseau was named ''Belgian Sportsman of the Year''. He had much success at the Lotto Cross Cup (Belgium's annual

cross country running Cross country running is a sport in which teams and individuals run a race on open-air courses over natural terrain such as dirt or grass. The course, typically long, may include surfaces of grass and earth, pass through woodlands and open coun ...

series) and was the overall season winner five times consecutively between 1983–88 and he earned a further three consecutive wins between 1990 and 1993. Among his other wins on the circuit were the

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in 1987,

Eurocross Eurocross is an annual international cross country running competition which takes place in Diekirch, Luxembourg in February. It is one of the IAAF permit meetings which serve as qualifying events for the IAAF World Cross Country Championships. ...

in 1990,Civai, Franco & Gasparovic, Juraj (28 February 2009)
Eurocross 10.2 km (men) + 5.3 km (women)

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. Retrieved 2010-03-01. and the 20 km of Brussels in 1995.

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* 1962 births Living people Belgian male long-distance runners Belgian male marathon runners Olympic athletes of Belgium Athletes (track and field) at the 1984 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 1988 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 1992 Summer Olympics World Athletics Championships athletes for Belgium European Athletics Championships medalists World Athletics Half Marathon Championships winners Recipients of the Association of International Marathons and Distance Races Best Marathon Runner Award Sportspeople from Mons {{Belgium-athletics-bio-stub