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Manuela Machado

Personal information
Born	9 August 1963 (1963-08-09) (age 61) Viana do Castelo, Portugal
Medal record Women'sAthletics Representing Portugal World Championships 1995 Gothenburg Marathon 1993 Stuttgart Marathon 1997 Athens Marathon European Championships 1994 Helsinki Marathon 1998 Budapest Marathon

Maria Manuela Machado (born 9 August 1963 inViana do Castelo) is a formerPortugueselong-distance runner, who was particularly successful when running themarathon. Unlike many other marathoners, she did not focus on running lucrative city marathons. 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, the1990 European Championships in Athletics inSplit, she placed tenth. She placed seventh in both the1991 World Championships in Athletics inTokyo and the1992 Summer Olympics inBarcelona. Machado won her first medal in a major competition in the1993 World Championships in Athletics inStuttgart when she came in second in the marathon.^[1][2] She won the1994 European Championships inHelsinki and the1995 World Championships inGothenburg. In the1996 Summer Olympics inAtlanta, she once again placed seventh.

At the1997 World Championships inAthens, Machado once again won a silver medal. The next year, inBudapest, she won theEuropean Championships again. Although she placed seventh in the1999 World Championships inSeville, she only managed a 21st place in the2000 Summer Olympics inSydney.

Machado represented theSporting Clube de Braga. She ran her personal best (2:25.09) in theLondon Marathon in 1999 (and was the third woman to cross the finish line). Machado continued Portugal's successful run in the marathon thatRosa Mota had started. The women's marathon has been part of theEuropean Championships since 1982, and the first time that a non-Portuguese marathoner won the European Championships was at the2002 European Championships inMunich whenMaria Guida ofItaly won.

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Event	Notes
Representing Portugal
1990	European Championships	Split,SFR Yugoslavia	10th	Marathon	2:39:49
1991	World Championships	Tokyo, Japan	7th	Marathon	2:32:33
1992	Olympic Games	Barcelona, Spain	7th	Marathon	2:38:22
1993	World Championships	Stuttgart, Germany	2nd	Marathon	2:30:54
	Lisbon Marathon	Lisbon, Portugal	1st	Marathon	2:31:31
1994	European Championships	Helsinki, Finland	1st	Marathon	2:29.54
1995	World Championships	Gothenburg, Sweden	1st	Marathon	2:25:39
1996	Olympic Games	Atlanta, United States	7th	Marathon	2:31:11
1997	World Championships	Athens, Greece	2nd	Marathon	2:31:12
1998	Ibero-American Championships	Lisbon, Portugal	3rd	10,000 m	33:14.60
	European Championships	Budapest, Hungary	1st	Marathon	2:27:10
1999	World Championships	Seville, Spain	7th	Marathon	2:29:11
2000	Olympic Games	Sydney, Australia	21st	Marathon	2:32:29

• Maria Manuela Machado atWorld Athletics
• Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen;Mallon, Bill; et al."Manuela Machado".Olympics at Sports-Reference.com.Sports Reference LLC. Archived fromthe original on 2020-04-18.

• 1963 births
• Living people
• Portuguese female long-distance runners
• Portuguese female marathon runners
• Athletes (track and field) at the 1992 Summer Olympics
• Athletes (track and field) at the 1996 Summer Olympics
• Athletes (track and field) at the 2000 Summer Olympics
• Olympic athletes for Portugal
• World Athletics Championships medalists
• European Athletics Championships medalists
• World Athletics Championships winners
• Sportspeople from Viana do Castelo

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