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	BBC News \| AFRICA \| The Maputo express
		The world's fastest woman over 800 metres is Maria Mutola - and she has overcome remarkable odds to reach the top.
		Until the beginning of her teens, Mutola played football with men in the Chamanculo neighbourhood until Mozambican writer, Jose Craveirinha, noticed a possible athletics talent when she was 14.
		Mutola would love to inspire fellow Mozambicans, particularly youngsters, to take part in sports and said she hoped her victory in Sydney would help people forget about the evil things that have ravaged Mozambique, including poverty, the war, the floods and other natural disasters.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/africa/1011499.stm (601 words)

	Maria Mutola - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mutola was born in the Chamanculo district of Maputo.
		Mutola lost out on a medal becaushe she was severely impeded in the final few metres by falling athletes and an unsuccessful protest was lodged.
		Mutola was unbeaten throughout 2003 and grabbed the headlines again that year, at the Memorial van Damme race in Belgium.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Maria_Mutola (1472 words)

	Maria Mutola (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Mutola won all seven of the races she contested outdoors in 1994, which included setting a new personal best and African record of 1min 55.19sec at the Weltklasse meet in Zurich on 17 August.
		Mutola sped through 200m in 26.67sec, and 400m in 56.18sec, but her pace proved to be too ambitious, and she faded to finish in 1min 57.62sec, which was still over two seconds faster than the second-place getter.
		However, Mutola's long wining streak came to an unfortunate end in the next day's semi-final, where she was disqualified for stepping outside her lane at the start of the race.
	www.sporting-heroes.net /athletics-heroes/displayhero.asp?HeroID=1715 (333 words)

	Long Run
		Maria Mutola can stretch across the plush carpet in the living room of her immaculate ranch house in Eugene, Ore., surrounded by trophies and ribbons and gifts from no less than the president of her native Mozambique, and she can laugh about the journey that brought her to the U.S. more than five years ago.
		Mutola is only 23, yet she sits on the cusp of greatness, unbeaten in the 800 meters for almost four years.
		Mutola lived with Doug Abramson, a supervisor with the Lane County Highway Department; his wife, Judy; and their children, Melissa (who was 14 when Mutola arrived) and Josh (who was 10).
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /events/1996/olympics/daily/july27/muto.html (1749 words)

	Active.com - Mutola wins first gold medal for Mozambique (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Mutola, 27, held back in the first lap and won the race with a strong finish, powering home on the final stretch to hold off Austria's Steffi Graf.
		Mutola's career includes many near-misses and just one major title — the gold she won at the 1993 World Championship in Stuttgart, Germany.
		Mutola had 50 successive wins in 800 finals between 1992 and 1996 — excluding her disqualification for stepping out of her lane when she won her semifinal heat at the 1995 worlds in Goteborg, Sweden.
	www.active.com /story.cfm?story_id=4973&sidebar=491&category=olympics_2000_track_field&CFID=22773634&CFTOKEN=53665533 (455 words)

	Telegraph \| Sport \| Friendship pays as Mutola leads Holmes to a silver
		But not to Maria Mutola, who kindly took the time during her utterly predictable victory in the 800 metres to escort her friend and training partner, Kelly Holmes, to Britain's first silver medal of the World Championships.
		Maria's seen me as a miserable cow all season and now this silver's up there with the bronze I won at the Olympics in Sydney," Holmes said after the race, radiant with happiness, a Union Jack draped over her shoulder.
		Olympic, world and Commonwealth champion, Mutola makes a recurring point of winning and arrived in Paris with an unbeaten run of 16 successive 800m victories stretching behind her like a vapour trail spelling 'Don't Even Think About It' to the hapless athletes permanently in her wake.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /sport/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/sport/2003/08/27/somott27.xml (813 words)

	The Telegraph - Calcutta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Maputo, July 8 (Reuters): Maria Mutola’s face beams from banners and walls of buildings in her native Mozambique, a beacon of hope in a country known worldwide for war, floods and hunger.
		The dominant figure in the women’s 800 metres for a decade, Mutola became the first athlete to win the $1 million Golden League jackpot outright last year, pushing her to heady heights in this southern African country of 18 million people where per capita income is well below $300 a year.
		Mutola, who will defend her Olympic title in Athens next month, is idolised at home because she ploughs much of her riches into a foundation to help upcoming athletes and fight the rampant poverty in her homeland.
	www.telegraphindia.com /1040709/asp/sports/story_3473109.asp (376 words)

	SABCnews.com - sport/olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Maria Mutola's achievement in winning Mozambique's first ever Olympic gold medal in Sydney yesterday comes in a year that saw her homeland ravaged by floods, undoing much of the progress that had been made in a country that considered itself one of Africa's success stories.
		Mutola (28) secured Mozambique's first ever Olympic gold when she powered to victory in the 800m final in a time of 1:56.15.
		Born in Maputo in October 1972 Mutola is another product of the seemingly endless supply of African middle and long distance runners although until her arrival on the scene Mozambique's chief contribution to world sport had been footballer Eusebio, who played at international level for its former colonial masters Portugal.
	www.sabcnews.com /sport/olympics/0,2172,4979,00.html (611 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Sport \| Olympics 2004 \| Athens 2004: Mutola seeks her place in history
		It is a paradox of Mutola's greatness that more attention is usually paid to her when she does not do as well as expected, such as in the 1995 world championships in Gothenburg when she was disqualified for stepping over the line, or when she was beaten in Atlanta.
		The message Mutola, who was born in Chamanculo, a shanty town in the suburbs of the Mozambican capital Maputo, wants to get across is that if she can make it on the world stage then so can anyone.
		Mutola suffered a setback last month in Lausanne when she suffered her first 800m defeat for two years, to the Russian Svetlana Cherkasova, and she then finished last in a 1500m in Paris.
	sport.guardian.co.uk /olympics2004/story/0,14912,1275524,00.html (1217 words)

	Scotsman.com Sport - Other Sports - Holmes times it to perfection at last
		Mutola, the defending champion, was not only beaten by Holmes, she was also run out of the medals.
		Mutola, who was first to Holmes’ second at last year’s world championships in Paris, was fourth in 1:56.51.
		In Ceplak and Mutola she faced two rivals who have consistently finished above her in big races, and there had to be a question mark over her ability to shrug off any inferiority complex.
	sport.scotsman.com /other.cfm?id=989292004 (1154 words)

	Holmes ends Mutola's dream in the 800m
		Mutola, the dominant force of the event for around a decade and who had helped to breathe new life into Holmes's career, went away empty-handed.
		Mutola, who has also won three world outdoor titles and six indoors, came to Athens with question marks over her form after a rare defeat which she had blamed on a hamstring injury.
		Mutola, who appeared to be trying to unsettle Ceplak before the start by standing close to her, started in lane five, with Ceplak and Holmes immediately inside.
	www.rediff.com /sports/2004/aug/24oly-ath1.htm (605 words)

	ABC Sport - Athletics - Mutola and Averbukh produce year's best performances
		Mozambique's Maria Mutola and Israel's Alex Averbukh produced the best performances of the year, in the women's 800 metres and men's pole vault, at the Super Grand Prix in Madrid on Saturday.
		Mutola said before the meeting that she did not think she would have a problem running well, despite the Spanish capital being located at a lung-busting 700 metres altitude.
		Mutola covered the first lap in 55.97 seconds, and just extended her lead in a phenomenal second lap.
	www.abc.net.au /sport/content/s905993.htm (760 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Sport \| Athletics \| Mutola poised to hit jackpot
		Maria Mutola, in less than two minutes, will attempt to win more prize money in one race than any woman athlete before her when the sixth year of the Golden League concludes in the King Baudouin Stadium in Brussels tonight.
		The 30-year-old Mutola is the only athlete who has remained unbeaten all season throughout the Golden League series which began at the end of June in Oslo and ends with the Memorial Van Damme meeting.
		Mutola is unbeaten in 19 races over 800m this season but she might not have faced a more difficult race.
	sport.guardian.co.uk /athletics/story/0,10082,1035992,00.html (638 words)

	SacObserver.com [SPORTS] Mozambican Woman Athlete Wins $1M Prize (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Mozambique's Maria Mutola celebrates as she wins the women's 800 meters during the Golden League meeting at the King Baudouin stadium in Brussels, Belgium, Friday, Sept. 5, 2003.
		When Maria Mutola won the 800 meters, securing her prize - which is paid in gold - the stadium's loud speakers played the song "Maria" from the musical West Side Story.
		Mutola says that she will donate part of the money to her Maria Mutola Foundation which helps poor athletes in Mozambique.
	www.sacobserver.com /sports/091703/maria_mutola.shtml (263 words)

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		Maria Mutola (l) of Mozambique celebrates as she crosses the finish line in front of Stephanie Graf of Austria to win the Olympic women's 800m gold medal in Sydney.
		The 800m Olympic champion, a triple world champion and six-time indoor world champion, Maria Mutola of Mozambique is undoubtedly the star of women's middle distance running, maintaining a place at the top of her sport since 1993.
		The 800m world bronze medallist in 1997, Mutola showed her consistency throughout 1998 with a near-faultless season which saw her first to break the tape 14 times out of 15, in the process breaking her own world indoor 1000m record in 2 minutes and 30.94 seconds in Stockholm.
	abc.net.au /olympics/2004/profiles/mariamutola.htm (518 words)

	MARIA MUTOLA SUPER STAR
		Maria Mutola has never been the type to blow her own trumpet.
		Mutola is now the only athlete left capable of walking away with the million dollar prize awarded to the athletes that win all six Golden League events.
		Mutola hails from a poor family and now intends using that sum, providing she wins the final Golden League race in Brussels, to help children in her country.
	www.paris2003saintdenis.org /en/cmc/competition/200335/cmc_382.html (430 words)

	Mutola wins historic - JAMAICAOBSERVER.COM
		BUDAPEST (AFP) - Maria Mutola of Mozambique became the first athlete in history to win six titles at the World Indoor Championships when she won the women's 800 metres here yesterday.
		Ceplak said she had been jostled by Mutola when the Mozambican overtook her 100m from the line and made her charge for home.
		Mutola won her first World Indoor title in Toronto in 1993 and took the 800m title at the next two championships before Ludmila Formanova inflicted a rare defeat in Maebashi, Japan in 1999.
	www.jamaicaobserver.com /news/html/20040308T010000-0500_56753_OBS_MUTOLA_WINS_HISTORIC.asp (218 words)

	sport.iafrica.com \| today's news Mulaudzi shines, Mutola creates history
		Maria Mutola of Mozambique become the first athlete in history to win six titles at the World Indoor Championships on Sunday.
		Mutola's victory was tarnished by accusations from Ceplak that the Mozambican had jostled her as she overtook 100m from the line and made her charge for home to win in one minute 58.50 seconds to Ceplak's 1:58.72.
		Mutola won her first three World Indoor titles from 1993 to 1997 before Ludmila Formanova inflicted a rare defeat in Maebashi, Japan in 1999.
	sport.iafrica.com /news/308023.htm (757 words)

	Observer \| Mutola running free
		The troubles in Mozambique ended in 1992, and Mutola is now a foot-soldier in the war against drugs, which athletics' governing body, the IAAF, appear to be losing and one that threatens to eclipse the triumphs of athletes.
		By even her high standards, Mutola had an extraordinary run of success on the track, but much more coverage was given to the drugs storm that centred on the Russian athlete Olga Yegorova, who had come from nowhere to win the 5,000m in the world championships in Edmonton.
		Between 1992 and 1995 Mutola did not lose a race over 800 metres, so perhaps it is no surprise that she began to question her motivation.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4470162-102283,00.html (760 words)

	SABCnews.com - sport/athletics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Mutola clocked 1:59.89 but had to dig deep in the final straight to overhaul Briton Holmes, who won silver in 2:00.18 with Russian Natalya Khrushchelyova third (2:00.29).
		Mutola, who has dominated the women's two-lap event for a decade and is unbeaten at the distance since July last year, was given an unexpectedly hard time by Holmes.
		Mutola took her first world title in 1993 and won again in Edmonton in 2001.
	www.sabcnews.com /sport/athletics/0,2172,64694,00.html (339 words)

	Athletics at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Women's 800 metres - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Women's 800 metres at the Athens 2004 Summer Olympics was won by Briton Kelly Holmes, who ran a tactical race, coming from the back of the field.
		The final started with a fast first 200 metres, but Kelly Holmes and Maria Mutola were last at this stage.
		This feat made her one of the UK's most successful ever athletes ;; the olympic 800/1500 metres double was never accomplished by any of their great 1980s middle distance trio, Sebastian Coe, Steve Ovett or Steve Cram.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Athletics_at_the_2004_Summer_Olympics_-_Women's_800_metres (408 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Sport \| Athletics \| Generosity and pace put Mutola out on her own
		Maria Mutola has been the dominant force in women's 800 metres running for the past 10 years but never has her star been more in the ascendancy than it is now at the start of a year when she will seek to become the first woman in her event to defend the Olympic title successfully.
		Hence she has set up the Maria Mutola Foundation in Mozambique to provide scholarships, kit and coaching to promising young athletes.
		Mutola will race the 800m on Saturday, Holmes the 1500m, although the two are destined to meet at some point during the indoor season.
	sport.guardian.co.uk /athletics/story/0,10082,1127679,00.html (911 words)

	Holmes takes 800 metres gold
		Mutola, who has also won three world outdoor titles and six indoors, came to Athens with question marks over her form after a rare defeat in the lead-up to the Games which she blamed on a hamstring injury.
		Mutola started in lane five, with Ceplak and Holmes immediately inside her.
		Mutola overtook the Slovenian at the bell, shadowed by Holmes, and the defending champion looked perfectly placed in third with 200 to go.
	www.rediff.com /sports/2004/aug/24oly-ath.htm (388 words)

	Telegraph \| Sport \| Athletics: Mutola on right track
		The centre of attention will be Maria Mutola, the world and Olympic 800 metres champion from Mozambique, who needs to triumph here and in Brussels on Sept 5 to become the first outright winner of the Golden League's $1 million jackpot.
		Mutola has already notched up 10 successive victories in Zurich on a track where, in 1994, she set her personal best of 1min 55.19sec.
		Among those cheering Mutola on from trackside will be her training partner, Kelly Holmes, one of the few Britons using Zurich as a last staging post before the World Championships.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /sport/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/sport/2003/08/15/sonite15.xml (277 words)

	Day 4 Tues 26th August - Paris 2003 - The Track World Championships - Time-to-Run - runner's track information
		Maria Mutola confirmed her status as the World's Premier WOmen's 800m runner at present by winning her event.
		Maria Mutola of Mozambique, captured the Women's title with minimal fuss, 'going away' to a controlled win in 1:59.89, after an opening lap of 61.20.
		Mutola captured a well deserved title, for the definite form athlete of the season, and she can now concentrate on her next Million Dollar challenge in Brussels..
	www.time-to-run.com /track/worldchamps/paris2003/day4.htm (1518 words)

	CNN/SI - IAAF World Championships - Maria Mutola (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		At one time, Maria Mutola had not lost in the 800-meter for almost four years ('92-'95).
		She was a strong favorite for gold in both the 800 and 1,500 in Atlanta last year, but only came away with a bronze in the 800.
		Having clocked the third fastest 800 of the year so far, Mutola is eager to win back the world title that she lost to Ana Quirot of Cuba in 1995.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /athletics/events/1997/wca/bios/mutola.html (176 words)

	Keep friends close and your rivals even closer, Maria - Athletics -
		Photo: AP When Mozambique's Maria Mutola, the defending 800 metres champion, was halfway down the home straight in Monday's Olympic final she turned to the runner on her inside, oblivious to the looming figure on the outside.
		Finally, it was too late for Mutola to join Holmes, who had started her victory lap, and the nine-time world champion walked inside.
		Mutola told Portuguese radio that she was suffering a hamstring injury and that Holmes alone knew about it.
	www.theage.com.au /olympics/articles/2004/08/24/1093246532219.html (482 words)

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