Renée Trente-Ganault
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 Trente-Ganault after her win in Pavillons-sous-Bois, January 1930 | |
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| Born | 9 October 1907 Paris, France |
| Died | 26 July 2004 (aged 96) Cavaillon, France |
Renée Trent-Ganault (9 October 1907 – 26 July 2004) was a French cross country and middle distance athlete. She was a pioneer in women's distance running.
Career
[edit]Trent-Ganault ran for AS Philotechnique in 1925, and Alsace Lorraine from Paris in 1926.[1] She was French Cross Country Champion in 1929,[2] 1941 and 1942. She was selected for five international French teams before the war in cross country. Renee was ninth in the 1938 International Cross Country Championships.[3]
Trent-Ganault was elected Cross Country woman of the century by the French Athletics Federation, because of her many victories between 1925 and 1946.
References
[edit]- ^ "les Biographies". bases.athle.fr. Retrieved 2022-07-26.
- ^ Paris-soir (in French), 1930-02-10, retrieved 2022-08-10
- ^ "Various Cross Country Events - 1938 SENIOR WOMEN". 2006-05-17. Archived from the original on 17 May 2006. Retrieved 2022-07-26.
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