Portuguese distance runner and former Olympic marathon champion Rosa Mota is 65 and nonetheless setting world information. On Sunday on the San Silvestre de Amadora 10K in Lisbon, Mota broke the W65+ 10K world file, clocking a ridiculous sub-40-minute time in Lisbon and beating her earlier age-group file by 37 seconds.
Rosa Mota finaliza la San Silvestre de Amadora en un tiempo de 39 minutos y 40 segundos con 65 años de edad, batiendo el récord mundial de 10 kilómetros de su categoría por 2 minutos y el récord mundial de 5 kilómetros de su categoría por 10 segundos con 19 minutos y 58 segundos. pic.twitter.com/6hAKmVhtDA
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Mota gained her age class with a file time of 39 minutes and 40 seconds, surpassing her mark of 40:17 from October 2023. Her time was so excellent that she even completed within the high 15 within the girls’s common classification. Mota used her expertise to her benefit, completely executing a unfavorable break up, coming by way of the primary 5K in 19:58 and shutting in 19:42.
This age-group world file is simply one other accomplishment on Mota’s profession resume, which options two Olympic marathon medals, three Boston Marathon titles and one world championship title. She gained her Olympic medals in 1984 in Los Angeles (bronze) and 1988 in Seoul (gold).
Mota was one of the crucial dominant marathon runners within the Eighties and Nineteen Nineties, profitable 14 of her 21 marathon races—numbers harking back to Kipchoge’s dominance. She has held the Portuguese nationwide file of two:23:29 within the marathon for practically 40 years. She ran her private greatest in 1985 on the Chicago Marathon, the place she completed third.
With a number of masters world information to her title, together with the W65+ 15K, 20K and half-marathon information, Mota has been touted as one of many best feminine marathon runners of all time.
