Patricia Girard
Patricia Girard (temporarily Girard- Leno, born April 8, 1968 in Pointe -à- Pitre, France ) is a French hurdler with the 100 - meter distance as a special route.
Your athletic career began as a sprinter. At the Olympic Summer Games in Seoul in 1988 she came over 100m semi-finals. In 1990 she has been banned for doping for two years. At the Olympic Summer Games in Barcelona in 1992 it reached about 100 m to the quarterfinals.
In World Athletics Championships she won in each of the 4 x 100 - meter relay in 1997 in Athens, the bronze medal, in 1999 in Seville the silver medal and 2003 in Paris / Saint- Denis the gold medal. In the 100 - meter hurdles she came in Stuttgart in 1993, 1995 in Gothenburg, 1997 and 2001 in Edmonton semi-finals. She was eighth in 2003 and seventh in 1999.
At the Olympic Games in Atlanta in 1996, she won the bronze medal behind the Swede Ludmila Engquist ( gold) and the Slovenian Brigita Bukovec (silver). Four years later she distinguishable at the Olympic Games in Sydney in the quarter- finals. At the European Athletics Championships in Munich in 2002, she finished fourth.
At IAAF World Indoor Championships, she won two bronze medals in the 60 - meter hurdles: in Toronto in 1993 and in Paris in 1997.
In 1997 she won gold at the Mediterranean Games.
Overall, it was seven times French champion in the 100 m hurdles ( 1993, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2001-2003).
Patricia Girard is the ex - wife of the Kickboxers Eddy Leno.