FRANCE: RACKET RACING - FRENCHMAN PHILIPPE BOREL WINS EUROPE'S TOUGHEST ALPINE RACKET RACE

Record ID: 645780

  • Title: FRANCE: RACKET RACING - FRENCHMAN PHILIPPE BOREL WINS EUROPE'S TOUGHEST ALPINE RACKET RACE
  • Date: 12th March 2003
  • Summary: AUSSOIS (SAVOY REGION), FRANCE (MARCH 9, 2003) (REUTERS) WIDE OF FRENCH ALPS CLOSE UP OF RACKET SHOES WIDE OF RACER PUTTING HIS RACKET SHOES ON CLOSE UP OF RACKET SHOES WINNER OF WOMENS RACE ISABELLE MARGUERON SAYING "Everybody has an avalanche victim detector, so we can be found in case of a problem." CLOSE UP OF THE AVALANCHE VICTIM DETECTOR
  • Embargoed: 27th March 2003 12:00
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  • Location: AUSSOIS (SAVOY REGION), FRANCE
  • Country: France
  • Topics: Sports
  • Reuters ID: LVA4RN39QBKFUP97LQUHBKOEHKDO
  • Story Text: Frenchman Philippe Borel won Europe's toughest alpine racket race in Aussois, France on Sunday (March 9).
    Some sixty racers challenged the French Alps for the sixth running of the event.
    Contestants, walking on racket shoes and aided by nothing else than ski poles, reached an elevation of 2076 metres and an altitude of 3100 metres at the Pointe de Bellecote, in the National Park of Vanoise. The racers, all equipped with avalanche victim detectors, covered some 16.5 kilometres.
    Frenchman Philippe Borel took home the title in 3 hours, 4 minutes, 43 seconds, one minute forty seconds faster than Patrick Lambert also of France.
    The women's race was dominated by Frenchwoman Isabelle Margueron, who managed to finish the race despite only having one racket shoe, as the other was broken on the first hill.
    Margueron clocked 4 hours, 25 minutes, 11 seconds.
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