The Marrakech Marathon is an annual marathon held in Marrakech , Morocco . Roughly 5000 runners turn out for the event annually.
4-458: At the inaugural edition of the race in 1987 French runner Jacques Boxberger won the men's race while the women's race was won by a Moroccan 14-year-old Nadia Ouaziz-Colombero – whose win made her one of the youngest ever winners of an international level marathon. Key: Course record This Morocco -related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article about marathons or long-distance running
8-400: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Jacques Boxberger Jacques "Jacky" Boxberger (16 April 1949 – 9 August 2001) was a track and field athlete from France who specialized in long-distance races . He was the great hope of French middle-distance running, breaking the junior world record in the 1500 metres at Stade Charléty in 1968. He represented France at
12-544: The 1968 , 1972 , 1976 and 1984 Summer Olympics , placing sixth in the 1968 1500 metres and 42nd in the 1984 marathon . He also won the Paris Marathon in 1983 and 1985, the 1500 metres title at the 1972 European Athletics Indoor Championships , the Marrakech Marathon in 1987, and French titles in the 1500 metres, 5000 metres , and 10000 metres . He suffered a knee injury during his military service with
16-629: The Joinville battalion. His career was the most brilliant among male French distance runners of his era behind only that of former world mile record-holder Michel Jazy . Boxberger was part of the French team that finished third at the World Cross Country Championships in 1976. In 2001, Boxberger was on vacation with his family in Kenya . While he was trying to film an elephant on a safari ,
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