Marie-Luce Romanens

Medal record
Competitor for  Switzerland
Women's Orienteering
World Championships
Gold	1995 Detmold	Short
Silver	2003 Rapperswil-Jona	Sprint
Bronze	1997 Grimstad	Short
Bronze	1997 Grimstad	Relay
Nordic Championships
Gold	2003 Flen	Sprint
Junior World Championships
Gold	1993 Kastelruth	Relay

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 obtained 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

1. ^ World-of-O-runners: Marie-Luce Romanens (Retrieved on December 8, 2007)
2. ^ World Orienteering Championship, senior statistics 1966-2006 (Retrieved on November 25, 2007)
3. ^ ^{a b} Birgitte Wolf: "Grosse Schweizer Sportlerin beendedt Karriere" Schweizerische Orientierungslauf-Fachschrift, 11/2004 (Retrieved on December 8, 2007)
4. ^ IAAF Biography: Marie-Luce ROMANENS (SUI) (Retrieved on December 8, 2007)

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Name	Romanens, Marie-Luce
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Date of birth	19 January 1973
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