page_title: Rosa Mota
section_title: After retirement
hierarchical_section_title: Rosa Mota / After retirement
caption_attribution_description: World Athletics Championships 2007 in Osaka - The IAAF flag carried by (in foreground) Frankie Fredericks, Rosa Mota, Heike Drechsler
context_page_description: Rosa Maria Correia dos Santos Mota, GCIH, GCM 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 she was distinguished as the greatest female marathon runner of all time.
context_section_description: Considered an Ambassador of Sport, in 1998 she won the Abebe Bikila Award for contributions to the development of long-distance race training. The trophy was awarded at the end of the International Race for Friendship, sponsored by the United Nations, taking place in the morning before the New York City Marathon.
  Rosa Mota was one of the most popular personalities of Portuguese sport in the late 20th century, alongside Eusébio, Carlos Lopes and Luís Figo.
  Rosa Mota carried the Olympic Flame along the roads of Athens before the 2004 Summer Olympics in Greece.
caption: Mota carrying the IAAF flag at the World Athletics Championships 2007 in Osaka
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