Olympic champions Rosa Mota of Portugal and Ethiopian Haile Gebrselassie will become ambassadors for the 23rd Madrid Half Marathon, which takes place next Sunday, the organization announced.
The event, which will take place alongside a five-kilometre charity run, is expected to attract around 23,000 participants.
Rosa Mota, 65, bettered the half marathon world record for athletes aged 65 to 69 last February by running 21.097 kilometers in 01:24.27 hours in Barcelona.
Considered the greatest Portuguese marathon runner of all time, the Porto athlete was an Olympic champion in the 1988 Seoul Marathon in South Korea and a bronze medalist in the 1984 Los Angeles Marathon in the United States.
Rosa Mota was also World Marathon Champion in Rome (1987) and European Marathon Champion in Athens (1982), Stuttgart (1986) and Split (1990), and her history includes marathon triumphs in Rotterdam (1983), Chicago (1983 and 1984), Tokyo (1986), Boston (1987, 1988 and 1990), Osaka (1990) and London (1991).
Ethiopian Haile Gebrselassie, 50, has two Olympic titles in the 10,000 meters and four world championships in the same distance.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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