Franziska Rochat-Moser

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Franziska Rochat-Moser athletics
nation SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
birthday 17th August 1966
place of birth Herzogenbuchsee , Switzerland
size 175 cm
Weight 54 kg
Career
Best performance 2:27:44 h (marathon)
last change: October 2nd, 2018

Franziska Rochat-Moser (born as Franziska Moser ; born August 17, 1966 in Herzogenbuchsee ; † March 7, 2002 in Lausanne ) was a Swiss long-distance runner who specialized in marathons .

Athletic career

Rochat-Moser began her career as an orienteer. In 1989, under her coach Richard Umberg , who looked after her until 2001, she became the first Swiss marathon champion at the Ticino Marathon in 2:42:10 h . Other national titles followed in the 25 km road race (1991) and the half marathon (1992 and 1995).

In the following years Rochat-Moser succeeded in advancing to the top of the world. In 1993 she won the Lausanne Marathon , in 1994 the Frankfurt Marathon , in 1995 the Greifensee run and in 1997 the Murten Run and the Jungfrau Marathon . In the same year she was the only Swiss woman to win the New York City Marathon .

In the marathon of the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta , she finished 15th. In the 1997 World Athletics Championships marathon , she was eighth.

In 1998 she won the Grand Prix of Bern . In 1999 she set her personal best over 10,000 meters in Barakaldo with 31: 56.78 and her best time in the half marathon in Lisbon with 1:10:54 h . At the Boston Marathon she came second in 2:25:51 h, the fastest time ever run by a Swiss woman. In 2015, after a rule change, the record was canceled, the run at that time went too far downhill. The gradient was 136 meters; according to the new international rules, only 42 (one meter per kilometer run) are allowed. In addition, the start and finish are further apart than the permitted 21.1 km (50 percent of the route length). Nevertheless, she holds the Swiss record: with her second-best time run in Frankfurt 1994 in 2:27:44 h, around two minutes slower than her previous record run. Franziska Rochat-Moser was 1.75 m tall and weighed 54 kg. After an operation on her hip, which she had to undergo in October 2000, she announced that she would retire from competitive sports in autumn 2001. The qualified lawyer had been married to the Swiss chef Philippe Rochat since 1995 .

On March 6, 2002, she suffered serious injuries in an avalanche below Les Diablerets , to which she succumbed the next day in the University Hospital of Lausanne . She was buried in Obergesteln .

Shortly before her death, she founded the Fondation Franziska Rochat-Moser, a foundation to promote young talent in long-distance running.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Women's marathon: Swiss record is corrected. ( Memento of the original from July 9, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. swiss-athletics.ch from March 17th, 2015  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.swiss-athletics.ch
  2. ↑ Thomas Rickenbach: Rule change long after her death. Will Rochat-Moser lose her record? In: Blick.ch from March 18, 2015
  3. ^ All-Time Performances - Marathon Road on arrs.run, accessed on July 8, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Rochat-Moser, Franziska
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Moser, Franziska (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss long-distance runner
DATE OF BIRTH 17th August 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Herzogenbuchsee
DATE OF DEATH March 7, 2002
Place of death Lausanne