Jessica Augusto: “I'm still living a dream”

Portugal’s Jessica Augusto got the biggest cheers of the afternoon and gave everyone a day to remember when she won the senior women’s gold medal on home soil at the SPAR European Cross Country Championships in Albufeira on Sunday.

In a thrilling demonstration of authoritative running from gun-to-tape, she become the first former junior champion, having won a decade ago in 2000, to taste victory in the senior women’s race at the Championships.

She was also the first Portuguese senior runner to win an individual title at the Championships since Paolo Guerra won the last of his four men’s gold medals in 2000.

In a question-and-answer session with the Portuguese newspaper O Jogo, Augusto, she reflected on the race and her feelings afterwards.

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