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Rosa Mota
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Portoguese athletics competitor
OverviewAI-generated
Rosa Mota, born Rosa Maria Correia dos Santos Mota in 1958 in Porto, is a Portuguese marathon runner and long-distance runner. She competed in athletics for Portugal, participating in the women's marathon at the 1984 and 1988 Summer Olympics, as well as the 1982 European Athletics Championships and the 1987 World Championships in Athletics. She also worked as a politician.
Mota is 157 cm tall and weighs 45 kg. She speaks Portuguese. In addition to her athletic career, she is an author. Her work count includes one entry in the Open Library, titled "A ourivesaria popular no norte de Portugal e a sua vivência em Viana do Castelo," and five works listed in Crossref.
Synthesized by Vinony from 26 facts across 5 sources: Wikidata, Open Library, Crossref, Last.fm, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1959
- Works
- 1
Top works
- A ourivesaria popular no norte de Portugal e a sua vivência em Viana do Castelo
via Open Library + Wikidata
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 1,202
- Total plays
- 11,258
Tags
Rosa Mota were formed in 1992 by Ian Bishop (vocals/guitar) - formerly of Atom Bomb Babies, Bright Young Things and Ultra Vivid Scene, Julie Rumsey (vocals/guitar), Sacha Galvagna (guitar), Michelle Marti (bass) and Justin Chapman (drums) and after two singles on indie label Placebo they signed to Mute imprint, Thirteenth Hour Recordings. Robin Proper-Sheppard of God Machine produced their debut album "Wishful Sinking" released in 1995. The following <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Rosa+Mota
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- [14] Analysis of total phenols and other oxidation substrates and antioxidants by means of folin-ciocalteu reagent
· 1999 · cited 14,041x
- Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger
· 2016 · cited 11,691x
- <i>Planck</i>2015 results
· 2016 · cited 9,861x
- GW170817: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Neutron Star Inspiral
· 2017 · cited 8,250x
- Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC
· 2012 · cited 6,794x
via Crossref · CC0
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
via Wikipedia infobox
~4 min read
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
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Rosa Mota” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.