Blandine Bitzner-Ducret

Blandine Bitzner-Ducret
Personal information
Nationality Français
Born 1 December 1965 (1965-12) (age 50)
Strasbourg
Sport
Event(s) 5000m,10000m,3000m, cross country

Blandine Bitzner-Ducret (born 1is December 1965 at Strasbourg) is a former athlete French, who specialized in distance races and cross-country.

Blandine distinguished herself at the IAAF World Cross Country Championships winning, under the team classification, the world title 1999 at Belfast in Northern Ireland, along with Yamna Oubouhou-Belkacem, Fatima Maama-Yvelain and Céline Rajot.[1] She also got the team bronze medal in 2000 alongside Fatima Maama-Yvelain, Yamna Oubouhou-Belkacem and Rakiya Maraoui-Quétier.

At the Cross Country European Championships, Blandine Bitzner-Ducret won the silver team medal in 1995 and the bronze team medal in 1996. On track, she placed sixth in the 5 000 m during the 1998 European Championships, at Budapest. She participated in the 1996 Summer Olympics, at Atlanta, where she reached the semi-finals of the 1,500 m.

Nationally, she won the title of champion of France in the 1 500 m in 1993 and 1994, the 5 000 m in 1998, in Cross-country in 1998 and 1999 (long race) and the 3 000 m Indoors in 1996.

In 1994, she set a new France record for the 1 500 m in 4:04.72.

Notes and References

  1. ↑ "Biographie de l'athlète". le site de la Fédération française d'athlétisme. Retrieved 9 April 2014.

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