(1921-01-01)1 January 1921 Telagh, Oran department, French Algeria, France
Died
27 June 2013(2013-06-27) (aged 92) Saint-Mandé, France
Height
1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Weight
56 kg (123 lb)
Sport
Sport
long-distance running
Event(s)
5,000 metres, 10,000 metres, marathon and cross-country running
Medal record
Men's athletics
Representing France
Olympic Games
1956 Melbourne
Marathon
1948 London
10,000 m
1952 Helsinki
5,000 m
1952 Helsinki
10,000 m
International Cross Country Championships
1946 Ayr
Team Race
1947 Paris
Team Race
1949 Dublin
Individual Race
1949 Dublin
Team Race
1950 Brussels
Team Race
1952 Hamilton
Individual Race
1952 Hamilton
Team Race
1954 Birmingham
Individual Race
1956 Belfast
Individual Race
1956 Belfast
Team Race
1950 Brussels
Individual Race
1958 Cardiff
Individual Race
European Athletics Championships
1950 Brussels
5,000 m
1950 Brussels
10,000 m
Mediterranean Games
1951 Alexandria
5,000 m
1951 Alexandria
10,000 m
1955 Barcelona
5,000 m
1955 Barcelona
10,000 m
Alain Mimoun, born Ali Mimoun Ould Kacha (1 January 1921 – 27 June 2013), was a French[1][2][3][4] long-distance runner who competed in track events, cross-country running and the marathon. He was the 1956 Olympic champion in the marathon. He is the most bemedalled French athletics sportsperson in history. In 1999, readers of the French athletics magazine Athlétisme Magazine voted him as the “French Athlete of the 20th Century”.[5]
On the track Mimoun won three Olympic silver medals, finishing second behind Emil Zátopek in the 10,000 metres final in 1948 and again second behind him in both the 5,000 metres and 10,000 metres finals in 1952. He was also the silver medallist in both events behind Zátopek at the 1950 European Athletics Championships. From 1949 to 1958, he won four individual gold medals and two individual silver medals at the International Cross Country Championships. He was a four-time gold medallist at the Mediterranean Games, completing the 5,000 m/10,000 m double in both 1951 and 1955.
Born in Algeria,[6][7][8] Mimoun fought military battles for France and the Western Allies during World War II. He settled in metropolitan France shortly after leaving the French army. Overall, he represented France in four consecutive
Olympic Games from 1948 to 1960. He competed internationally for France on 86 occasions. From 1947 to 1966, he won a total of 29 senior titles in the 5,000 m, 10,000 m, marathon and cross-country events of the French national championships. Mimoun continued to run in his later life and set a number of veteran age-category records.
^"Alain Mimoun". olympic.org – Official website of the Olympic Movement. Retrieved 14 February 2015.
^"Alain Mimoun". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 14 February 2015.
^Goldstein, Richard (30 June 2013). "Alain Mimoun, a Top Runner, Dies at 92". The New York Times. Retrieved 14 February 2015.
^Universalis, Encyclopædia. "ALAIN MIMOUN". Encyclopædia Universalis. Retrieved 23 November 2021.
^"Adieu Mimoun". www.sports.fr. 28 June 2013.
^David E. Martin (2000). The Olympic Marathon. Human Kinetics Publishers. p. 222. ISBN 978-0880119696.
^"Athlétisme : Alain Mimoun est mort". Le Monde (in French). 28 June 2013. Retrieved 14 February 2015.
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