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}} Alain Mimoun (1 January 1921 – 27 June 2013) was an Algerian-born〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Alain Mimoun )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Alain Mimoun )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Alain Mimoun, a Top Runner, Dies at 92 )〕 French〔(Alain Mimoun Biography, ''universalis.fr'' )〕 long-distance runner who competed in track events, cross-country running and the marathon. He was the 1956 Olympic champion in the marathon. He is the most medalled French athletics sportsperson in history. In 1999, readers of the French athletics magazine Athlétisme voted him as the “French Athlete of the 20th Century”.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Adieu Mimoun )〕 On the track Mimoun won three Olympic silver medals, finishing second behind Emil Zátopek in the 10,000 metres final in 1948 and again second behind him in both the 5,000 metres and 10,000 metres finals in 1952. He was also the silver medallist in both events behind Zátopek at the 1950 European Athletics Championships. Between 1949 and 1958 he won four individual titles at the International Cross Country Championships as well as placing runner-up twice. He was a four-time gold medallist at the Mediterranean Games, completing the 5,000 m/10,000 m double in both 1951 and 1955. Born in Algeria,〔 Mimoun fought military battles for France and the Western Allies during World War II . He settled in metropolitan France shortly after leaving the French army. Overall he represented France at the Olympics on four occasions (1948 to 1960). He competed internationally for France on 86 occasions. From 1947 to 1966, he won a total of 29 senior titles in the 5000 m, 10000 m, marathon and cross-country events of the French national championships. Mimoun continued to run in his later life and set a number of veteran age-category records. ==Early life== Alain Mimoun was born Ali Mimoun Ould Kacha in the arrondissement of Maïder in the town of Telagh, Algeria,〔〔〔〔(Athlétisme - Alain Mimoun, décédé à 92 ans, en bref (ENCADRE) ). Le Matin. Retrieved on 2013-07-02.〕 into a very poor, Arab-Berber family. Ali was the oldest of seven children in the family and his parents were peasants. His mother, Halima, also weaved blankets for a living. He had always been a model pupil in primary school. When he was eleven, he finished his primary school education and obtained a certificate with ''mention bien''. In view of his good academic results, his illiterate mother wanted him to become a primary school teacher. She applied for a scholarship for Ali after being told to do so by some colonists who had come to visit her. Ali was denied the scholarship - it was the only application rejected by the school - that could have enabled him to further his studies. He noted that sons of colonists with worse grades than him obtained their scholarships. When Ali learned of his scholarship rejection, he told his mother that Algeria was not his country and that his country was on the other side of the Mediterranean, even though he was against colonization. He said that as a teenager, he would dream that he was in front of maps and show France to his mother. Ali first worked as a mason, and then in a hardware shop when he was fourteen. He said that hardware shop owner was a Frenchman who came from France, was an admirable man who treated him like his son and with whom he would eat on the same table. Ali started to play association football when he was twelve and practice cycling when he was fifteen.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Disparition d'Alain Mimoun )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=L’athlète Mimoun est mort : portrait d’un converti )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Hommage : Alain Mimoun court toujours )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Alain Mimoun」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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