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Place of Birth: Nuillé-sur-Vicoin, Pays de la Loire, France
About Nicole Lévêque
- Nicole Lévêque (born January 27, 1951 in Nuillé-sur-Vicoin, France) is a French long distance runner and marathoner.
- She began her International career in her mid-40s, representing her native country in the 10,000 metres at the 1994 European Athletics Championships, coincidentally finishing fourteen seconds and one place ahead of Danish Olympian Gitte Karlshøj.
- Her time of 32:12.07 was a W40 world masters record. Just a month before the championships, she had set the world masters W40 record at 5,000 metres.
- A couple of weeks later she won the Auray-Vannes Half Marathon setting the masters world record at 1:11:35.
- Her record would stand for eight years until it was displaced by Karlshøj.
- She followed just two more weeks later representing France at the 1994 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships.
- She repeated in 1995 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships.
- In 1996, she set the still standing W45 world record in the 5,000, the W45 1500 metres world record and came within 5 seconds of Evy Palm's W45 record in the 10,000, a record that is almost 2 minutes faster than any other athletes have achieved.
- She ran the Marathon at the 1998 European Athletics Championships, at age 47 setting her personal record at 2:36:52.
- Discounting the marathon as an all inclusive final, she is also listed as the oldest finalist in a European Championship event requiring qualification from her appearance in the 10,000 metres in 1994.
- In 2001, at age 50, she again improved the W50 world record in the 5,000, which lasted just over 8 years until it was displaced again by Karlshøj.
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