Jacky Boxberger
Jacques "Jacky" Boxberger (16 April 1949 – 9 August 2001) was a
long-distance races
.
He was the great hope of French middle-distance running, breaking the junior world record in the
10000 metres.[1][3][4] He suffered a knee injury during his military service with 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.[citation needed
]
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, the animal picked him up with its trunk, threw him against a tree, and trampled him to death.[1][2]
The middle distance runner Ophélie Claude-Boxberger is his daughter.
References
- ^ a b c "Jacky Boxberger Biography and Olympic Results". Sports Reference LLC. 2012. Archived from the original on 17 December 2012. Retrieved 15 August 2012.
- ^ ISBN 978 1 84513 695 6.
- ^ "Paris Marathon". Association of Road Racing Statisticians. 18 April 2012. Retrieved 15 August 2012.
- ^ "European Indoor Championships (Men)". Athletics Weekly. 2005. Retrieved 15 August 2012.
External links
- Jacky Boxberger at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
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