Maria Rebelo (divorced Rebelo-Lelut; born 29 January 1956 in

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) is a retired female

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from

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. She set her personal best of 2:29:04 hours in the

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in 1991. Rebelo rose to prominence in the 1986 season by winning the

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in the time of 2:32:16. Winner of her first national marathon title in 1990, Maria Rebelo took third at the 1990 European Championships at

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, finishing behind the Portuguese

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and the Soviet

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. She ran the best performance of her career on 21 April 1991 by completing the

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in 2:29:04, then she placed fifth at the 1991 World Championships at Tokyo in 2:32:05. Selected to run at the

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, Rebelo did not finish. She won two more French national marathon championships in 1993 and 1994.

International competitions

Road race wins

: 1986 (2:32:16) *

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: 1993 (1:13:02)

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* 1956 births Living people People from Ílhavo French female long-distance runners French female marathon runners Olympic athletes for France Athletes (track and field) at the 1988 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 1992 Summer Olympics European Athletics Championships medalists World Athletics Championships athletes for France Portuguese emigrants to France Paris Marathon female winners French Athletics Championships winners 20th-century French sportswomen {{France-longdistance-athletics-bio-stub