Maura Viceconte
Maura Viceconte was an Italian long-distance runner who represented her native country twice at the Summer Olympics.
Career
Viceconte is best known for winning the bronze medal at the 1998 [European Championships in Athletics|1998 European Championships] in Budapest, Hungary. She won nearly all of the 14 marathons she raced in, including Rome, Vienna, and Prague.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 was premiered in Italy.
Personal life
Viceconte had one son in her early 40s.Viceconte developed breast cancer in her 40s, which was successfully treated. She died on 10 February 2019 at the age of 51. The manner of death was suicide.