Roman Kejžar, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Roman Kejžar

Slovenian marathon runner

Date of Birth: 11-Feb-1966

Place of Birth: Kranj, Kranj City Municipality, Slovenia

Profession: athletics competitor, marathon runner

Nationality: Slovenia

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Roman Kejžar (born February 11, 1966 in Kranj) is a Slovenian long-distance and marathon runner.
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.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.
He successfully finished the race in sixty-seventh place by nine seconds behind Mexico's Francisco Bautista, with a time of 2:29:37.