Manuela Machado, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Manuela Machado

Portuguese athletics competitor

Date of Birth: 09-Aug-1963

Place of Birth: Viana do Castelo, Viana do Castelo District, Portugal

Profession: long-distance runner, marathon runner

Nationality: Portugal

Zodiac Sign: Leo


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About Manuela Machado

  • Maria Manuela Machado (born August 9, 1963 in Viana do Castelo) is a former Portuguese long-distance runner, who was particularly successful when running the marathon.
  • Unlike many other marathoners, she did not focus on running city marathons that would have earned her lots of money.
  • Instead, she participated in major competitions (which were less monetarily profitable). Machado participated in the marathon in every major competition between 1990 and 2000.
  • In her first major competition, the 1990 European Championships in Athletics in Split, she placed tenth.
  • She placed seventh in both the 1991 World Championships in Athletics in Tokyo and the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona.
  • Machado won her first medal in a major competition in the 1993 World Championships in Athletics in Stuttgart when she came in second in the marathon.
  • She won the 1994 European Championships in Helsinki and the 1995 World Championships in Gothenburg.
  • In the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, she once again placed seventh. At the 1997 World Championships in Athens, Machado once again won a silver medal.
  • The next year, in Budapest, she won the European Championships again.
  • Although she placed seventh in the 1999 World Championships in Seville, she only managed a 21st place in the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. Machado represented the Sporting Clube de Braga.
  • She ran her personal best (2:25.09) in the London Marathon in 1999 (and was the third woman to cross the finish line).
  • Machado continued Portugal's successful run in the marathon that Rosa Mota had started.
  • The women's marathon has been part of the European Championships since 1982, and the first time that a non-Portuguese marathoner won the European Championships was at the 2002 European Championships in Munich when Maria Guida of Italy won.

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