Portuguese distance runner and former Olympic marathon champion Rosa Mota is 65 and nonetheless setting world data. On Sunday on the San Silvestre de Amadora 10K in Lisbon, Mota broke the W65+ 10K world document, clocking a ridiculous sub-40-minute time in Lisbon and beating her earlier age-group document 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 categorÃa por 2 minutos y el récord mundial de 5 kilómetros de su categorÃa por 10 segundos con 19 minutos y 58 segundos. pic.twitter.com/6hAKmVhtDA
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Mota gained her age class with a document 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 normal classification. Mota used her expertise to her benefit, completely executing a adverse cut up, coming via the primary 5K in 19:58 and shutting in 19:42.
This age-group world document 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 vital dominant marathon runners within the Eighties and Nineties, successful 14 of her 21 marathon races—numbers paying homage to Kipchoge’s dominance. She has held the Portuguese nationwide document of two:23:29 within the marathon for almost 40 years. She ran her private finest in 1985 on the Chicago Marathon, the place she completed third.
With a number of masters world data to her identify, together with the W65+ 15K, 20K and half-marathon data, Mota has been touted as one of many best feminine marathon runners of all time.
