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Marie-José Pérec

French sprinter (born 1968)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 30, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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Marie-José Pérec is a retired French track and field sprinter who specialised in the 200 and 400 metres and is a three-time Olympic gold medalist. She was born in the French overseas department of Guadeloupe and moved to Paris when she was 16 years old.

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“Marie-José Pérec” enters the record as french sprinter (born 1968). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Marie-José, Pérec and French can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Marie-José Pérec” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.