Marie Jose Perec
Track and Field
Marie-José Perec (born May 9, 1968) is a French athlete, specialised in the 200 and 400 m, and a triple Olympic champion. Perec experienced her first major international success in 1991, when she became World Champion in the 400 m in Tokyo. She then became the favourite for the Olympic 400 m title in 1992 in Barcelona which she went on to win, becoming the first Frenchwoman to win an athletics Olympic gold medal since 1968 when Colette Besson won the same event in Mexico City.
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