[Trending News] Rosa Mota hospitalized in the intensive care of Santo António, in Porto

Rosa Mota, one of the most iconic figures ever of Portuguese sport and specifically athletics, gave this afternoon entry into the Intensive Care Unit of the Santo António Hospital in Porto, at a time when she is recovering from surgery to an aneurysm Abdominal, which was discovered to him in December last year.

The 66-year-old athlete, who hit the 10,000-meter record in the 65-69-year-old in São Silvestre in Lisbon, in December, felt bad at the end of the race, with intense pain in the abdominal zone. At that time an aneurysm was diagnosed, in the meantime surgery.

However, Rosa Mota has now entered the Intensive Care Unit of the Santo António Hospital in Porto, and there is no prognosis of the athlete's health state.

Born in 1958, Rosa Mota is one of the most striking figures of Portuguese sports ever, having won the gold medal at the Seoul Olympic Marathon in 1988, four years after being bronze in Los Angeles. He was still world champion in the same distance in Rome (1987) and three times European champion (1982, 1986 and 1990).