Roger Quemener

Roger Quemener was a French racewalker, born on 17 June 1941 and died on 18 July 2021, who was a legend of the Paris-Colmar ultramarathon, which he won seven times. Of Breton descent, he joined the Parisian police in 1963 and later belonged to the AS Police Paris sports association. He only started top-level sport at 28 and contested mainly long-distance races, becoming French champion over 100 kilometres in 1971, 1972 and 1975. He won the classic Paris-Strasbourg in 1979, then the same race, known as Paris-Colmar from 1981, in 1983 and five times in a row from 1985 to 1989, and later became deputy director of the competition. He received the Golden medal of Youth and Sports in 1986.