Jacky Boxberger

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Jacky Boxberger (actually: Jacques Boxberger ; born April 16, 1949 in Châtel-sur-Moselle , Département Vosges , Lorraine ; † August 9, 2001 in Tsavo East National Park , Kenya ) was a French medium and long-distance runner .

Career

Jacky Boxberger, who was called "Box" by his friends, was 1.83 m tall and weighed 70 kg. He grew up in a working class family and left school at the age of 12 to work in a textile factory. Discovered by coach Gaston Prétot, he moved from the club in the village of Plainfaing to FC Sochaux . Here in the Jura a mixture of training was practiced, which on the one hand corresponded to the natural school of France, but on the other hand, due to the proximity to Freiburg im Breisgau and Woldemar Gerschler , favored a systematic structure, including many mountain runs, with stopwatch, systematics and controlled interval training .

On July 4, 1968, he set a junior world record in the 1,500 meter run in Paris with 3: 40.8 minutes . Three months later, he finished sixth over the same distance in the Olympic Games in Mexico . After his return he became a sports soldier in the Battalion de Joinville, but suffered a serious motorcycle accident there, which required knee surgery and the long-term consequences of which repeatedly impaired his career.

In 1971 he was over 1500 m fifth at the European Athletics Championships in Helsinki . The following year he won this distance at the European Athletics Indoor Championships in Grenoble in 1972 and reached the semi-finals at the Olympic Games in Munich .

Then he moved to longer distances. In 1976 he was ninth at the World Cross Country Championships and won bronze with the team. At the Olympic Games in Montreal he was eliminated over 5000 m in the run; in the further course of the season, however, he set national records over 3000 m and 5000 m.

At the beginning of the 1980s he switched to road running . In 1981 he finished third in the Paris Marathon , which he won in 2:12:38 h in 1983. In 1984 he finished second there with the French record of 2:11:59 h, but only came 42nd in the marathon of the Olympic Games in Los Angeles . In 1985 he won again in Paris and improved his national record to 2:10:49 h. He also won the Lyon Marathon in 1983 and 1985 and the premiere of the Marrakech Marathon in 1987 .

He won French championship titles over 5000 m (1977 and 1982), over 10,000 m (1977), in the 25 km road run (1985), in cross country (1976 and 1983) and in the indoor arena over 1500 m (1972 and 1973).

His daughter Ophélie Claude-Boxberger is also a successful runner.

death

Boxberger died on a photo safari after leaving his tour group to film a bull elephant . This attacked him and trampled him to death in front of his wife and daughter.

Personal bests

  • 1500 m: 3: 36.8 min, June 28, 1973, Helsinki
  • 1 mile : 3: 57.6 min, September 7, 1971, West Berlin
  • 3000 m: 7: 43.76 min, September 1, 1976, Cologne (former French record)
  • 5000 m: 13: 23.59 min, August 24, 1977, Zurich (former French record)
  • 10,000 m: 28: 30.8 min, June 15, 1977, Lille
  • Hours run : 20,340 m, September 17, 1980 Saint-Maur-des-Fosses (former French record)
  • 25 km road race: 1:15:45 h, September 29, 1985, Divonne-les-Bains (former French record)
  • Marathon: 2:10:49 h, May 11, 1985, Paris (former French record)

literature

  • André Ciccodicola & Gérard Ejnès (eds.): Marathon de Paris: J'ai 30 ans. L'Équipe, 2005, ISBN 2915535167 , p. 50 f.

Web links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Arnd Krüger : Many roads lead to Olympia. The changes in training systems for medium and long distance runners (1850–1997). In: Norbert Gissel (Hrsg.): Sporting performance in change. Czwalina, Hamburg 1998, ISBN 3-88020-322-9 , pp. 41-56
  2. ^ Cyrille Gindre: N'oublie pas d'écrire que courir ce n'est pas rien! Une histoire de la course à Sochaux ( Memento of the original from April 16, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: Volodalen. April 2009  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.volodalen.com
  3. ^ Gbrathletics: French Championships
  4. ↑ gbrathletics: French Indoor Championships
  5. ↑ A very French doping affair
personal data
SURNAME Boxberger, Jacky
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Boxberger, Jacques; box
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French middle and long distance runner
DATE OF BIRTH April 16, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Châtel-sur-Moselle , Vosges department , Lorraine
DATE OF DEATH August 9, 2001
Place of death Tsavo East National Park , Kenya