Roger Bambuck

Roger Bambuck (born November 22, 1945 in Pointe-à-Pitre , Guadeloupe ) is a former French athlete . With a height of 1.80 m, his competition weight was 70 kg.

Athletic career

At the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo , Bambuck reached the quarter-finals in the 100-meter run and the semi- finals in the 200-meter run .

Roger Bambuck made his breakthrough to the international top at the 1966 European Championships in Budapest . In the 100-meter run he was second in 10.5 s behind the Poland Wiesław Maniak . In the 200-meter run, he won in 20.9 s ahead of Marian Dudziak from Poland . The French 4 x 100 meter relay in the line-up Marc Berger , Jocelyn Delecour , Claude Piquemal and Roger Bambuck won in 39.4 s before the relay from the Soviet Union, after the Poles had already been eliminated in the preliminary run.

1968 Roger Bambuck took part in the championships of the American Amateur Athletic Union in Sacramento. On June 20, 1968 in the fourth heat over 100 meters he was second behind Charles Greene and both runners set the world record of 10.0 seconds. Bambuck was the second European after Armin Hary who had run 10.0 s. After a little over an hour, Bambuck lost his world record when Jim Hines and Ronnie Ray Smith lowered the world record to 9.9 s in the first semifinals. In the second semifinals, Charlie Greene also ran for 9.9 seconds and Roger Bambuck just finished third with 10.0 seconds. In the final, six runners were stopped with 10.0 s, including Bambuck in fourth. Electronic times were also used in Sacramento, Bambuck's times were 10.28 s in the run-up, 10.21 s in the semifinals and 10.18 s in the final.

At the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City , the electronically measured times were evaluated for the first time and were included in the same list of the best with the still customary hand-timed times without additional values. Jim Hines ran 9.95 s in the final, which was for the time being considered to be the setting of the hand-stopped world record of 9.9 s. From January 1, 1977, only electronic times were used and the 9.95 s were the sole world record from 1977 to 1983 . With Roger Bambuck the situation was even more curious, while he was only about an hour world record held by his French record from Sacramento. His electronic time of 10.11 s from the first Olympic semifinals was rated as 10.1 s and only became the only French record in 1977, which was to last for more than ten years. In the final of Mexico City Bambuck was fifth with 10.15 s. The sprinter, born in Guadeloupe, was the only "European" in the final.

He took the same place after 20.51 s in the final of the 200-meter run, where he was even faster in the semifinals with 20.47 s. The French relay team in the line-up Gérard Fenouil , Delecour, Piquemal and Bambuck won bronze in 38.43 s.

Roger Bambuck was French champion in the 100 and 200 meters from 1965 to 1968. After he didn't even start in 1969, he started for the last time in 1970. Then perhaps the best French sprinter of all time ended his sporting career.

politics

From 1988 to 1992 Roger Bambuck was State Secretary for Youth and Family in Michel Rocard's cabinet . Since then Bambuck has been responsible for sport in the Center national de la recherche scientifique . He is one of the representatives of France at UNESCO .

literature

• Manfred Holzhausen: world records and world record holder. 100m run. 200m / 220y run Grevenbroich 2000
• Ekkehard zur Megede: The Modern Olympic Century 1896-1996 Track and Field Athletics , Berlin 1999, published by the German Society for Athletics Documentation eV