Marcel Hansenne

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Marcel Hansenne (born January 24, 1917 in Tourcoing , † March 22, 2002 in Fourqueux , today: Saint-Germain-en-Laye ) was a French middle-distance runner who was one of the fastest over 800 m in the years after the Second World War .

As a schoolboy in northern France, Hansenne played basketball until he was 18 years old. In 1939 he started for the French national team for the first time (a total of 22 times by 1950). At the European Athletics Championships in Oslo in 1946 , he won bronze in 1: 51.2 minutes behind the Swede Rune Gustafsson and the Dane Niels Holst-Sørensen . In 1948 he improved the French record to 1: 48.3 minutes, until then only Rudolf Harbig had run faster in his world record in 1939. Hansenne was thus in a favorite position for the Olympic Games in London . Since Hansenne was not a good spurter, he had to bow to the American Mal Whitfield and the Jamaican Arthur Wint in the London final and won the bronze medal in 1: 49.8 minutes. In the 1500 meter final , Hansenne was eleventh. Three weeks after the Olympic Games, on August 27, 1948, Hansenne tried to break the world record in the 1000-meter run in Gothenburg . His compatriot Jean Vernier set the pace, and Hansenne was well below the world record of Rune Gustafsson in transit times. In the last 200 meters, Hansenne could not keep up the pace and only set the world record in 2: 21.4 minutes.

At the Euro 1950 in Brussels, the Norwegian Audun Boysen , Hansenne and the British Roger Bannister won their prelims. In the final, Boysen started at a high pace and on the first lap set himself several meters away from the other runners. After six hundred meters Boysen lost his strength and the two Englishmen Bannister and John Parlett passed him in the final corner. On the home straight Hansenne stormed up from behind, but only reached Bannister. Parlett won with a championship record of 1: 50.5 minutes and 0.2 seconds ahead of Hansenne and Bannister. Boysen ultimately came in fifth.

Hansenne started 22 times internationally for France. He won nine championship titles over 800 meters (1939, 1941–1945, 1947, 1948 and 1950), over 1500 meters he won three times (1943, 1945 and 1946). As an active athlete, Marcel Hansenne was 1.83 m tall and weighed 72 kg.

From 1944 Hansenne worked full-time at the French sports newspaper L'Équipe . From 1970 to 1982 he was editor-in-chief there.

Hansenne trained according to the interval principle of Woldemar Gerschler , which he had previously successfully applied and propagated with Rudolf Harbig .

Best times

  • 800 meters: 1: 48.3 minutes (1948)
  • 1000 meters: 2: 21.4 minutes (1948)
  • 1500 meters: 3: 47.4 minutes (1949)

literature

  • Manfred Holzhausen: world records and world record holder. 800m / 880y run - 1000m run. sn, Grevenbroich 1997.
  • Peter Matthews (Ed.): Athletics 2003. SportsBooks, Cheltenham 2003, ISBN 1-899807-16-0 .
  • Ekkehard zur Megede: Special report in the trade journal: Athletics. from 1950; Reprinted in Klaus Amrhein & Axel Schäfer: 60 years of European Athletics Championships. Groß-Zimmer / Bochum 1998.

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Marcel Hansenne: You sport plein la tête . Peris: Flammarion, 1983.
  2. ↑ http://www.comoria.com/177242/Marcel_Hansenne
  3. ↑ Arnd Krüger : Many roads lead to Olympia. The changes in training systems for medium and long distance runners (1850–1997). In: N. Gissel (Hrsg.): Sporting performance in change . Czwalina, Hamburg 1998, pp. 41-56.

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personal data
SURNAME Hansenne, Marcel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French middle distance runner
DATE OF BIRTH January 24, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Tourcoing
DATE OF DEATH March 22, 2002
Place of death Fourqueux