Jacqueline Gareau
Jacqueline Gareau (born March 10, 1953 in L'Annonciation, Rivière-Rouge , Québec ) is a former Canadian marathon runner .
In 1978 she won the Île-d'Orleans Marathon and the Niagara Falls Marathon. The following year she won the Ottawa Marathon , the Montreal Marathon and was third in the New York City Marathon .
In 1980 she won the Boston Marathon . The award was made one week late, as the sports fraudster Rosie Ruiz was initially believed to be the winner. In the fall, she finished second in Montreal and the Tokyo International Women's Marathon .
In 1981 she finished fifth in Boston. In the following season, a second place in Boston followed a win at Freihofer's Run for Women and a third place in Montreal. In 1983 she was again second in Boston, fifth at the World Athletics Championships in Helsinki and second in Chicago.
In 1984 she triumphed in the once held Los Angeles International Marathon, but had to give up at the Olympic Games in Los Angeles . She finished eighth in Chicago.
In 1985 she was second in the Houston Marathon , sixth in the Pittsburgh Marathon , ninth in New York City and Canadian champion over 10,000 m . In 1987 she won again in Montreal, in 1988 she was seventh in the London Marathon .
She won the Mount Washington Road Race three times (1989, 1994, 1996).
Jacqueline Gareau lives as a massage therapist in Sainte-Adèle .
Personal bests
- 10,000 m: 33: 47.94 min, August 4th 1985, Ottawa
- Half marathon : 1:13:08 h, July 29, 1989, Québec
- Marathon: 2:29:28 h, April 18, 1983, Boston
Web links
- Official website
- Jacqueline Gareau in the database of World Athletics (English)
- Jacqueline Gareau - one of Canada's greatest marathoners , article by Noel Paine in Canadian Running Magazine, April 5, 2012
Footnotes
- ↑ Rosie Ruiz Tries to Steal the Boston Marathon ( Memento of the original from April 24, 2009 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: Running Times Magazine (excerpt from a July 1980 article)
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SURNAME | Gareau, Jacqueline |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian marathon runner |
DATE OF BIRTH | March 10, 1953 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | L'Annonciation, Rivière-Rouge , Québec |