Alice Beuns![]() Beuns in 1922 |
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| Nationality | French |
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| Born | (1901-02-05)5 February 1901
Malaunay, France |
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| Died | 7 May 1995(1995-05-07) (aged 94)
Yvetot, France |
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| Sport | Track and field athletics |
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| Event(s) | Sprint, hurdling |
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| Club | Normandia SR |
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Alice Beuns (5 February 1901 — 7 May 1995) was a French sprinter and hurdler, with her main results during the early 1920s. She was a member of Normandia SR.
She was four times national champion. She represented France internationally.
Biography
Beuns was born in 1901 in Malaunay, Normandy, France. She became a member of sports club "Normandia Sports Rouen" (Normandia SR).[1][2][3]
At the French Athleitcs Championships she won her first medals in 1920; the silver medal in the 80 metres and a bronze medal in the 83 metres hurdles. She became national champion at the 1921 and 1922 French Athleitcs Championships in the 80 metres and 83 metres hurdles.[1][2]
She won the 80 metres at the 1921 Belgium–France women's athletics match.[4]
At the 1922 Women's Olympiad, she won the gold medal in the 4 x 75-meter relay together with Alice Gonnet, Lucie Prost and Paulette de Croze. She also won a silver medal in the 4 x 175-meter relay and two bronze medals in the 250 metres and 65 metres hurdles.[3]
At the 1922 France–Belgium women's athletics match she won the 250 metres, the 83 metres hurdles and also the 4 x 200
metres relay event.[4]
Beuns married to Auguste Emmanuel Robert Coquin in Rouen in 1922.[5]
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