Aurora Cunha

Aurora Cunha (born 31 May 1959 Ronfe in Guimarães ) is a former Portuguese long-distance runner.

In the early 1980s she was Portugal's best track runner and was sixth in the 3,000 - meter race of the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles with the Portuguese record of 8:46,37. The national records in the 5000m and 10,000 m, they improved to finally 15:06,96 ( July 4, 1985, Helsinki ) and 31:29.41 (July 5, 1986, Oslo).

From the mid- 80s, she focused on the road race and took two gold medals (1985 and 1986) and one bronze (1989 ) at the 15 - km World Cup.

In 1988, she won the Paris Marathon. In 1989, she turned on her marathon best of 2:28:11 as a third of the London Marathon. In the same year she finished second at the Tokyo International Women's Marathon, which she had won the year before.

In 1990 she won the Chicago Marathon, 1991, she was second in the Nagoya Marathon, and in 1992 she won the Rotterdam Marathon.