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Marie-Luce Romanens (born 19 January 1973) is a Swiss orienteering competitor and long-distance runner. She won the 1995 Short distance World Orienteering Championships. This was the first individual Swiss gold medal in the World Orienteering Championships. She also earned a silver medal in the 2003 Sprint Championships, and a Relay bronze medal from the 1997 World Championships.
In 2001, she won the mountain race Jungfrau Marathon running from Interlaken to Kleine Scheidegg, a full marathon distance and 1823 meter climb, setting record for women (3:21:03). Her personal record on ordinary marathon is 2:35:54.
Marie-Luce Romanens finished her running career in 2003 due to achilles problems, and settled in Villars-sur-Glâne as a biology and chemistry teacher.