Béatrice Reymann

About

Béatrice Reymann (August 5, 1955 – October 7, 2013) was a French ultra-distance runner who competed for AL Échirolles and ranked among the top 100km specialists of the mid-1990s. She won the French national 100km championship at Rognonas in 1994 in a personal-best 8:07:22, then took team silver at the 1994 IAU 100km World Championships in Yubetsu, Japan, and team gold at the 1995 IAU 100km European Championships in Vendée. Her signature result came later in 1995, when she won the Marathon des Sables outright in 21:35:22 — a time that, per Guinness World Records, stood for decades as the fastest ever run by a woman at the race.

Notable Wins

• — French 100km Champion 1994 (Rognonas
• — 8:07:22); IAU 100km World Championships 1994 team silver; IAU 100km European Championships 1995 team gold; Marathon des Sables winner 1995 (21:35:22
• — women's fastest-ever record)