RUNNING HEROES / Rosa Mota

Martine Bouchonneau à Sierre-Zinal en 1984, portant le maillot Spiridon dans un paysage de montagne suisse.

Martine Oppliger-Bouchonneau, the Franco-Swiss woman who ran "despite the federation"

French champion, four-time winner of Morat-Fribourg, 2nd behind Rosa Mota in São Paulo in 1981 while representing Switzerland, Olympian in Seoul in 1988: the career of Martine Oppliger-Bouchonneau, a French-Swiss runner whom the magazine Spiridon followed from her very first cross-country races.

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