Mónica Pont Chafer (born 3 June 1969 in Bufali, Valencia) is a former long-distance runner from

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, 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.

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1969 births Living people Spanish female long-distance runners Olympic athletes for Spain Athletes (track and field) at the 1996 Summer Olympics Spanish female marathon runners Spanish Athletics Championships winners 20th-century Spanish sportswomen {{spain-athletics-bio-stub