C’est avec une immense tristesse que nous avons appris le d\u00e9c\u00e8s de Robert ARMAND \u00e0 l’age de 93 ans, figure incontournable et embl\u00e9matique du sport gardois. \u00c0 travers son parcours exceptionnel, c’est toute une vie de d\u00e9vouement, de transmission et de passion qui s’\u00e9teint.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
N\u00e9 pour le sport, Robert avait explor\u00e9 de multiples disciplines \u2014 du football \u00e0 la natation, avant de trouver sa v\u00e9ritable vocation dans l’athl\u00e9tisme. Athl\u00e8te accompli d\u00e8s sa jeunesse, couronn\u00e9 de titres r\u00e9gionaux et m\u00e9daill\u00e9 aux championnats de France cadets, il n’avait jamais cess\u00e9 de courir, de s’engager et de faire grandir les autres.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sa carri\u00e8re professionnelle l’avait men\u00e9 \u00e0 \u0153uvrer plus de vingt ans chez Adidas, aux c\u00f4t\u00e9s de l\u00e9gendes telles que Michel Jazy, ancrant encore un peu plus son destin dans l’univers du sport. Convaincu que la course et l’effort devaient \u00eatre accessibles \u00e0 tous, il fut un b\u00e2tisseur infatigable dans le Gard. On lui doit notamment la cr\u00e9ation des c\u00e9l\u00e8bres 50 kilom\u00e8tres de la Vaunage<\/em>, ainsi que l’impulsion de clubs majeurs de la r\u00e9gion : l’Entente n\u00eemoise d’athl\u00e9tisme, l’US Calvisson \u2014 o\u00f9 il croisa le chemin de Monique, qui allait devenir son \u00e9pouse et sa complice de toujours \u2014 et l’ASSP Verg\u00e8ze.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Pr\u00e9sident du comit\u00e9 du Gard d’athl\u00e9tisme, puis de la ligue du Languedoc-Roussillon de 2000 \u00e0 2004, Robert a marqu\u00e9 des g\u00e9n\u00e9rations de sportifs. Nombreux sont ceux qui se souviennent de sa silhouette famili\u00e8re au bord des pistes, pistolet en main, perp\u00e9tuant ce r\u00f4le de starter qu’il a exerc\u00e9 avec rigueur et bienveillance pendant un demi-si\u00e8cle, tirant des milliers de cartouches pour lib\u00e9rer l’\u00e9nergie de tant de coureurs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n R\u00e9compens\u00e9 par la m\u00e9daille d’or de la Jeunesse, des sports et de l’engagement associatif, ainsi que par la prestigieuse m\u00e9daille de platine de la F\u00e9d\u00e9ration fran\u00e7aise d’athl\u00e9tisme, il incarnait les plus belles valeurs du b\u00e9n\u00e9volat et du sport partag\u00e9.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Aujourd’hui, le sport gardois perd l’un de ses plus grands serviteurs. Nos pens\u00e9es \u00e9mues vont vers son \u00e9pouse Monique, sa famille, ses proches et tous les acteurs de l’athl\u00e9tisme qui ont eu la chance de croiser sa route.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" C’est avec une immense tristesse que nous avons appris le d\u00e9c\u00e8s de Robert ARMAND \u00e0 l’age de 93 ans, figure incontournable et embl\u00e9matique du sport gardois. \u00c0 travers son parcours […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15450,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-la_ligue"],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/athle-occitanie.fr\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Robert_ARMAND-e1793182669331.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/athle-occitanie.fr\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/athle-occitanie.fr\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/athle-occitanie.fr\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/athle-occitanie.fr\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/athle-occitanie.fr\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15449"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/athle-occitanie.fr\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15451,"href":"https:\/\/athle-occitanie.fr\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15449\/revisions\/15451"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/athle-occitanie.fr\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/athle-occitanie.fr\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/athle-occitanie.fr\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/athle-occitanie.fr\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}