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Rosa Mota
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Portoguese athletics competitor
Key facts
- Full name
- Rosa Maria Correia dos Santos Mota
- Born
- ( 1958-06-29 ) 29 June 1958 (age 67) , Porto , Portugal
- Height
- 5 ft 2 in (1.57 m)
- Weight
- 99 lb (45 kg)
- Sport
- Track and field athletics
- Event
- Marathon
- Olympic finals
- 1988 – Gold
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Rosa
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Portugal
- Place of birth
- Porto
- Occupation
- politician
- Languages spoken
- Portuguese
- Participant in
- 1990 European Athletics Championships – Women's Marathon
- Sport
- athletics
- Country for sport
- Portugal
- Mass
- 45
- Image
- Rosa Mota na Exponor.JPG
- Height
- 157
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Encyclopedic overview
Rosa Maria Correia dos Santos Mota, GCIH, GCM ( Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈʁɔzɐ ˈmɔtɐ]; born 29 June 1958) is a Portuguese former marathon runner, one of her country's foremost athletes, being the first sportswoman from Portugal to win Olympic gold. Mota was the first woman to win multiple Olympic marathon medals, as well as being the only woman to be the reigning European, World, and Olympic champion at the same time. On the 30th Anniversary Gala of the Association of International Marathons and Distance Races (AIMS), she was distinguished as the greatest female marathon runner of all time.
Biography
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