Albertine Regel
Albertine Rosa Dardier after her first marriage Albertine Boudin and later Albertine Regel (born 29 October 1890) was a French racewalker and cross-country runner during the 1920s, the early era of women's athletics.[1] She was multiple times world record holder and silver medalist at the second Women's World Games in 1926.
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| Birth name | Albertine Rosa Dardier | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 29 October 1890 Albi, France | ||||||||||||||
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| Country | France | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | Track and field athletics | ||||||||||||||
| Event(s) | cross-country running, racewalking | ||||||||||||||
| Club | CA Parisien (Paris) Athletic Club Féminin de France (Paris) Nova Femina (Paris) | ||||||||||||||
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Biography
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changeShe became a member of sports association CA Parisien in Paris. Around 1925 she started competing for Athletic Club Féminin de France (ACFF) in Paris. She mainly competed in race walking but also in cross-country running.[1][2]
In 1922 she won the bronze medal at the France Athletics Championships in the cross country in Chaville. In later years she also competed at the national cross country championshpis but finished sixth in 1925 held in Parc de Saint-Cloud, Paris and she finished 5th at the 1926 Championships in Meudon.[2]
She represented France at the 1924 Women's Olympiad in London. She won the gold medal in the 1000 metres race walk ahead of the British Edith Trickey. Her time of 5:14.0 was a new world record.[3] In September 1924 she broke during the 1924 France–Czechoslovakia women's athletics match in Paris on 14 September, outside competition, the world record in the 880 yards race walk with a time of 4:13.0.[4]
On 12 July 1925 she became the French champion in the 1000 meter race walk at the Stade du Métropolitan in Colombes, and successfully defended her title at the 1926 national championships.[1]
In 1926, she represented Frace at the 1926 Women's World Games in Gothenburg and won the silver medal in the 1000 m walk behind Daisy Crossley who set a new world record. The time of Regel of 5:12.8 was also faster than the previous world record, and so a new national record.[5][6][7] Later in 1926 on 11 November she set the world record in the 10 kilometres at competitions in Paris.[8]
Personal life
changeAlbertine Rosa Dardier was born in Albi on 29 October 1890.[1] She married to Paul Boudin in Albi on 4 August 1913.[9] Paul Boudin died on 1 June 1933 and married on 22 December 1934 to Emeline Lucien Regel.[10] In sports she never used the name Dardier or Boudin. Already from 1921 she was systematically identified as Regel, while Regel became her husband from 1934.
References
change- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "FEMININES (Abderrhamane à Duvivier) | DARDIER vve BOUDIN, ép. REGEL Albertine" (PDF). Commission de la documentation et de l'histoire (in French). Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 June 2024. Retrieved 4 September 2024.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Championnats de France, 6-Finalistes des championnats de France 1888 à 1969, p. 42, 50, 53, 56 (FFA)
- ↑ "World Record set in Britain". British Athletics. Retrieved 4 September 2024.
- ↑ "La rencontre France-Tchécoslovaquie | La France a remporte la victoire". La Dernière Heure (in French). 15 September 1924. p. 3 – via uurl.kbr.be.
- ↑ "Le meeting international féminin de Gothembourg". La Matin (in French). 31 August 1926. p. 4.
- ↑ "Par-ici, par-la". La Wallonie (in French). 2 September 1926. p. 3.
- ↑ "Albertine Dardier". French Athletics (in French).
- ↑ Women, 10 km Road Walk Brinkster.net
- ↑ Albi (Tarn, France) - Decennial Tables (Marriages) | 1913 - 1922
- ↑ F Albertine Rosa DARDIER