Roger Bambuck
Roger Bambuck ( born November 22, 1945 in Pointe -à- Pitre, Guadeloupe ) is a French former track and field athlete. At a height of 1.80 m his competition weight was 70 kg.
Sporting career
At the Olympic Games in Tokyo in 1964 Bambuck reached the quarter-finals and in the 200 - meter race the semi-finals in the 100 -meter run.
His breakthrough to the international elite succeeded Roger Bambuck at the European Championships in Budapest in 1966. In the 100 -meter run, he was s second behind Poland Wieslaw Maniak in 10.5. In the 200 - meter race he won in 20.9 sec ahead of Poland's Marian Dudziak. The French 4 x 100 - meter relay in the lineup Marc Berger, Jocelyn Delecour, Claude Piquemal and Roger Bambuck won in 39.4 seconds before the relay from the Soviet Union after the Poles had been eliminated already in the flow.
In 1968 Roger Bambuck part in the championships of the Amateur Athletic Union American in Sacramento. On 20 June 1968 the fourth pre in the 100 meters, he finished second behind Charles Greene and both runners set the world record of 10.0 s a. Bambuck was thus the second Europeans to Armin Hary, who had run 10.0s. After a little more than an hour Bambuck was his world record going back when Jim Hines and Ronnie Ray Smith in the first semifinal the world record to 9.9 s lowered. In the second semi-final Charlie Greene ran 9.9s and Roger Bambuck came with 10.0 s in third just in the final. In the final six runners where stopped with 10.0, including Bambuck fourth. In Sacramento, electronic times were taken Bambucks times were 10.28 s in the flow, 10.21 s and 10.18 s in the semi-finals in the final.
At the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City, the electronically measured times and counted out without Vorschaltwerte with the still usual handgestoppten times in the same leaderboard for the first time. Jim Hines ran 9.95 s in the final, which was meanwhile seen as setting the handgestoppten world record of 9.9 s, from 1 January 1977 electronic times were only performed and the 9.95 s were then 1977-1983 sole world record. At Roger Bambuck the situation was curiously while he was only about an hour world record holder, held his French record from Sacramento. Its electronic time of 10.11 seconds from the first Olympic semi-finals were counted as 10.1 seconds and until 1977 the sole French record, but then there should be more than ten years. In the finale of Mexico City Bambuck was fifth with 10.15 s. Born in Guadeloupe Sprinter was the only "European" in the final.
He occupied the same place after 20.51 seconds in the finals of the 200-meter run, where he was even faster in the semi-final with 20.47 s. The French squadron in the lineup Gérard Fenouil, Delecour, Piquemal and Bambuck won in 38.43 s bronze.
Roger Bambuck was in the years 1965 to 1968 French champion in the 100 and 200 meters. After 1969 he never took, he started in 1970 for the last time. Then perhaps the best French sprinter of all time ended his athletic career.
Policy
From 1988 to 1992, Roger was Bambuck Secretary of State for Youth and Family in the cabinet of Michel Rocard. Since then Bambuck is responsible for sport at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique. He is one of the representatives of France at UNESCO.