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Colette Henriette Besson was a French middle-distance runner and sprinter who competed in athletics for France. She participated in the 1968 Summer Olympics. Her birth name was Colette Henriette Besson, and she was born on April 7, 1946, in Saint-Georges-de-Didonne.
Besson died of lung cancer, a natural cause, on August 9, 2005, in Angoulins. She was a female citizen of France who spoke French. Her physical attributes included a height of 169 and a mass of 58. She received the award of Officer of the Legion of Honour.
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- France
- Active from
- 1978-03-23
Discography
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Academic profile · OpenAlex
- Works
- 1
- Cited by
- 0
Research areas
Most cited works
- Le témoignage de la sportive d'élite2002 · 0 cit
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC
· 2012 · cited 6,795x
- Observation of a new boson at a mass of 125 GeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC
· 2012 · cited 6,659x
- Multi-messenger Observations of a Binary Neutron Star Merger<sup>*</sup>
· 2017 · cited 3,669x
- A novel anti-apoptosis gene, survivin, expressed in cancer and lymphoma
· 1997 · cited 2,492x
- Perfluoroalkyl Acids: A Review of Monitoring and Toxicological Findings
· 2007 · cited 2,343x
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Key facts
- Born
- 7 April 1946, Saint-Georges-de-Didonne , France
- Died
- 9 August 2005 (aged 59), Angoulins , France
- Height
- 1.69 m (5 ft 7 in)
- Weight
- 58 kg (128 lb)
- Sport
- Athletics
- Event s
- 200 m, 400 m, 800 m
- Club
- Bordeaux EC
- Personal best s
- 200 m – 23.4 (1969), 400 m – 51.79 (1969), 800 m – 2:03.3 (1971)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- France
- Place of birth
- Saint-Georges-de-Didonne
- Place of death
- Angoulins
- Occupation
- athletics competitor
- Languages spoken
- French
- Participant in
- 1968 Summer Olympics
- Sport
- athletics
- Country for sport
- France
- Mass
- 58
- Image
- Colette Besson 1968.jpg
- Height
- 169
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- Commons category
- Colette Besson
- cause of death
- lung cancer
- date of birth
- 1946-04-07
- date of death
- 2005-08-09
- manner of death
- natural causes
- name in native language
- Colette Besson
- birth name
- Colette Henriette Besson
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Encyclopedic overview
Colette Besson (7 April 1946 – 9 August 2005) was a French athlete, the surprise winner of the 400 m at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City.
Athletic career
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