Maura Viceconte (3 October 1967 â 10 February 2019) was an Italian long-distance runner who represented her native country twice (1996 and 2000) at the Summer Olympics.
Viceconte is best known for winning the bronze medal at the 1998 European Championships in Budapest, Hungary. She won nearly all of the 14 marathons she raced in, including Rome (1999), Vienna (2000), and Prague (2001).
Her personal best time of 2:23:47 hours set at the Vienna City Marathon in 2000 stood as the Italian national record until April 2012, when it was beaten by Valeria Straneo.
In 2018, a documentary film about her life, <span lang="it" dir="ltr">La Vita è un Maratona</span> (Life is a Marathon) was premiered in Italy.
Viceconte had one son in her early 40s.
Viceconte developed breast cancer in her 40s, which was successfully treated. She died on 10 February 2019 at the age of 51. The manner of death was suicide.