Mónica Pont

Spanish long-distance runner
The basics

Quick Facts

IntroSpanish long-distance runner
A.K.A.Monica Pont
A.K.A.Monica Pont
PlacesSpain
isAthlete Long-distance runner Runner
Work fieldSports
Gender
Female
Birth3 June 1969
Age55 years
Star signGemini
The details

Biography

Mónica Pont Chafer (born 3 June 1969 in Bufali, Valencia) is a former long-distance runner from Spain, who won the Rotterdam Marathon on 13 April 1995, clocking 2:30:34. She represented her native country at the 1996 Summer Olympics in the women's marathon race, where she finished in 14th place.

Pont set her personal best (2:27:53) in the classic distance in the 1996 Osaka International Ladies Marathon. Her time from that event was then the second-best Spanish women's marathon time recorded, and it remains the Valencian record. Pont also set the Valencian record for the half-marathon in an event in Barcelona 1996, at 1:12:27, and held it for 22 years until Marta Esteban broke it in 2017.

Achievements

YearCompetitionVenuePositionEventNotes
Representing  Spain
1995Rotterdam MarathonRotterdam, Netherlands1stMarathon2:30:34
World ChampionshipsGothenburg, Sweden6thMarathon2:31:53
1996Olympic GamesAtlanta, United States14thMarathon2:33:27
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