This Sunday, the Portuguese Rosa Mota broke the half marathon world record for athletes between 65 and 69 years old, by completing the distance in 1:26.06 hours, shaving more than six minutes off the previous best mark.
In Riga, in the parallel race to the road World Championships, the 1988 Seoul Olympic marathon champion placed 13th overall and won the race in her age group, surpassing the mark of the Swiss Emmi Luthi, who had run in 1 :32.56 in 2009.
Rosa Mota was more than 22 minutes behind the second, the Finnish Kaarina Back (1:48.41).
Last week, Rosa Mota had won the European cross-country veterans championship, at the same level.
Source: TSF
