Roman Kejžar

Roman Kejžar
Personal information
Nationality	Slovenia
Born	11 February 1966 (age 58); Kranj, SR Slovenia, SFR Yugoslavia
Height	1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Weight	62 kg (137 lb)
Sport
Sport	Athletics
Event	Marathon
Club	AK Velenje
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)	Half-marathon: 1:02:49 (2000); Marathon: 2:11:50 (2000)

Roman Kejžar (born 11 February 1966 in Kranj) is a Slovenian long-distance and marathon runner.^[1] He is a three-time Olympian, and a 2004 national marathon champion. He also set both a national record and a personal best time of 2:11:50 at the 2000 Turin Marathon, earning him a spot on the Slovenian team for the Olympics.^[2]

At age thirty-four, Kejzar made his official debut for the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, where he placed sixty-second out of a hundred runners in the men's marathon, with a time of 2:26:38, fourteen seconds behind Tanzania's Zebedayo Bayo. He displayed a stellar performance at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, when he finished fifty-fourth in the marathon for the second time, posting his best Olympic career time of 2:23:34.

Eight years after competing in his first Olympics, Kejzar qualified for his third Slovenian team, as a 42-year-old, at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, by placing nineteenth and reaching an A-standard time of 2:17:26 from the 2007 Berlin Marathon.^[3] He successfully finished the race in sixty-seventh place by nine seconds behind Mexico's Francisco Bautista, with a time of 2:29:37.^[4]

References

^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Roman Kejžar". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 16 January 2013.
^ Ramsak, Bob (23 October 2005). "Njoroge, Grandovec easy winners in Ljubljana Marathon". IAAF. Retrieved 16 January 2013.
^ "Kejžar z olimpijsko normo" [Kejžar reached an Olympic norm] (in Slovenian). Atletska Zveza Slovenije. 30 September 2007. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 16 January 2013.
^ "Men's Marathon". NBC Olympics. Archived from the original on 16 August 2012. Retrieved 16 January 2013.