Maura Viceconte

Maura Viceconte (3 October 1967 – 10 February 2019) was an Italian long-distance runner who represented her native country twice (1996 and 2000) at the Summer Olympics.

Career Viceconte is best known for winning the bronze medal at the 1998 European Championships in Budapest, Hungary. She won nearly all of the 14 marathons she raced in, including Rome (1999), Vienna (2000), and Prague (2001).

Her personal best time of 2:23:47 hours set at the Vienna City Marathon in 2000 stood as the Italian national record until April 2012, when it was beaten by Valeria Straneo.

In 2018, a documentary film about her life, La Vita è un Maratona (Life is a Marathon) was premiered in Italy. The manner of death was suicide.

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