Olivier Marceau

0 Olivier Marceau
Personal information
Date of birth	30th January 1973 (age 47)
place of birth	Fontenay-aux-Roses , France
size	183 cm
Weight	73 kg
societies
successes
2000	ITU world champion triathlon Olympic distance
2004, 2006, 2007	3 × Vice World Champion Cross-Triathlon Xterra
2007, 2008, 2011	3 × European Cross Triathlon Xterra champion
2011	ETU Vice European Champion Cross Triathlon
status
Resigned in 2014

Olivier Marceau (born January 30, 1973 in Fontenay-aux-Roses , Département Hauts-de-Seine ) is a former French - Swiss triathlete , three-time Olympic athlete (2000, 2004, 2008), triathlon world champion on the Olympic distance (2000) , Xterra European Cross Triathlon Champion (2007, 2008, 2011) and Xterra Vice World Champion (2004, 2006, 2007).

Career

The son of a French sports teacher and a Swiss woman grew up in the Drôme department in southern France and became a professional triathlon in 1993.

Triathlon World Champion 2000

After becoming world champion in April 2000, he was one of the most popular favorites in the run-up to the 2000 Summer Olympics . At the Olympic race in Sydney (1.5 km swimming, 40 km cycling and 10 km running) he was in the lead after two sub-disciplines, but then fell back to seventh place on the running track. Four years later he finished eighth.

Until 2003 he started for France and since then for Switzerland.

European Cross Triathlon Champion 2007

He later competed in the XTerra category (with a mountain bike instead of a racing bike) and won the silver medal in cross triathlon at the 2004, 2006 and 2007 World Championships.

In 2008 he started the triathlon at the Olympic Games for the third time and finished 19th for Switzerland in Beijing. In August 2011 Marceau became Xterra European Champion for the third time. After the 2014 season he retired from active racing and is now a coach.

Olivier Marceau is married with a daughter and lives with his family in Vallauris ( Alpes-Maritimes department ).

Sporting successes

(DNF - Did Not Finish )

Web links

• Olivier Marceau's website
• Profile for Olivier Marceau at the Institute for Applied Training Science , accessed on May 13, 2014
• Profile and results of Olivier Marceau in the ITU database at Triathlon.org , accessed on March 16, 2019 (English).
• Olivier Marceau in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Olivier Marceau (ex-FRA) wants to go to Athens for Switzerland ( Memento of the original from March 9, 2016 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. (July 12, 2002) 
2. ↑ Ironman France: Zamora's winning streak holds .
3. ↑ Ironman 70.3 Switzerland: Michael Raelert wins the next victory
4. ↑ TRISTAR111 MONACO: MARCEAU AND ROBIN PREMIERE WINNERS .
5. ↑ Triathlon SM / European Cup Geneva (VW-circuit) ( Memento of the original from December 6, 2016 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. 
6. ↑ Kai Baumgartner: Tagaman Triathlon 2004 . In: 3athlon.de . April 27, 2004. Archived from the original on July 6, 2004.
7. ↑ Xterra Maui: Nicky Samuels and Ruben Ruzafa win the world title (October 2013)
8. ^ Wasle second in XTERRA France mud battle
9. ↑ Three German starters, three gold medals at the Triathlon Cross-EM in Visegrad
10. ↑ Cross-EM: Renata Bucher takes the title
11. ↑ Wasle co-favorite at Triathlon Cross World Championship premiere ( Memento from May 2, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
12. ↑ Felix Schumann third of the XTERRA-EM  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.