The Most Famous
ATHLETES from Mozambique
This page contains a list of the greatest Mozambican Athletes. The pantheon dataset contains 3,059 Athletes, 1 of which were born in Mozambique. This makes Mozambique the birth place of the 118th most number of Athletes behind Guernsey and Peru.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Mozambican Athletes of all time. This list of famous Mozambican Athletes is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Maria Mutola (1972 - )
With an HPI of 44.38, Maria Mutola is the most famous Mozambican Athlete. Her biography has been translated into 38 different languages on wikipedia.
Maria de Lurdes Mutola ( mə-REE-ə moo-TOH-lə; born 27 October 1972) is a retired female track and field athlete from Mozambique who specialised in the 800 metres running event. She is only the fourth female track and field athlete to compete at six Olympic Games. She is a three-time world champion in this event and a one-time Olympic champion. Although Mutola never broke the world record in her favourite event, she is regarded by many track insiders and fans as one of the greatest 800 metres female runners of all time due to her consistently good results in major championships and her exceptional longevity which saw her compete at the highest level for two decades before retiring from athletics in 2008 at the age of 35. She is also the only athlete ever to have won Olympic, World, World indoor, Commonwealth Games, Continental Games and Continental Championships titles in the same event. She is also the main coach and mentor of Caster Semenya.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as athletes born between 1972 and 1972. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living athletes include Maria Mutola.
