title: Renée Trente-Ganault
text: # Renée Trente-Ganault
  
  Renée Trent-Ganault was a French cross country and middle distance athlete. She was a pioneer in women's distance running.
  
  ## Career
  
  Trent-Ganault ran for AS Philotechnique in 1925, and Alsace Lorraine from Paris in 1926. She was French Cross Country Champion in 1929, 1941 and 1942. She was selected for five international French teams before the war in cross country. Renee was ninth in the 1938 International Cross Country Championships.
  
  Trent-Ganault was elected Cross Country woman of the century by the French Athletics Federation, because of her many victories between 1925 and 1946.
  
  