The confirmation of a team made up of six judokas, four women and two men, raised this Saturday to 54 the number of Portuguese qualified for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
The Portuguese Judo Federation has confirmed the presence in the French capital of Catarina Costa (-48 kg), Rochele Nunes (+78 kg), Patrícia Sampaio (-78 kg), Bárbara Timo (-63 kg) and Jorge Fonseca (+ 100 kg), determined by the classification, and João Fernando (-81 kg), in the continental quota.
The Portuguese team, which does not include Telma Monteiro, bronze medalist in Rio 2016, was defined after the end of the individual competition of the World Championship, which took place in Abu Dhabi and ended on May 23.
With six athletes, judo is the third modality with the most representatives, on a list headed by athletics, which has 10 representatives, and the places will only be officially confirmed after June 30, the date of the agreement between rankings and brands.
The team is “led” by the current Olympic triple jump champion, Pedro Pablo Pichardo, and includes Ágata Sousa (length), with Pedro Buaró (pole vault), Samuel Barata and Susana Godinho (marathon), Isaac Nader (1,500 meters), João Coelho (400 meters), Auriol Dongmo (weight), Ana Cabecinha (20 kilometers of walking) and Irina Rodrigues (discus).
Cycling is in second place in the Portuguese ranking, with already seven representatives, after Raquel Queirós, 27th in Tokyo 2020, achieved a double in XCO.
The name that will represent Portugal in this event will be announced later by the federation – as happens in other disciplines of this sport – but the national mountain bike coach, Pedro Vigário, has already shortlisted Queirós (BH Coloma Team) and Ana Santos (Guilhabreu MTB team).
Portugal has confirmed, for the first time, its representation in the men’s track events of the Olympic Games, in madison and omnium, a discipline in which there will also be a female cyclist in Paris 2024, and there are also three on the road.
Table tennis has five athletes, after Jieni Shao and Fu Yu increased the number of representatives in this sport thanks to their results in the European qualifying tournament, repeating their presence in Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020.
The men’s team was already qualified, in a selection that will be made up of three players – thanks to a quota won by Marcos Freitas, Tiago Apolónia, João Geraldo and Diogo Carvalho during the Team World Cup -, two of whom will still leave for the tournament individual.
With the same number of elements is swimming, led by Diogo Ribeiro, with minimums in the 50 and 100 meter freestyle in addition to the 100 meter butterfly, an event in which he is world champion, with João Costa (100 meter backstroke), Camila Rebelo ( 200 meters backstroke), Miguel Nascimento (50 meters freestyle) and Angélica André (open water).
On April 25, Portugal obtained the third place in sailing, after Mafalda Pires de Lima saved a place in women’s kiting, placing seventh in Hyères, France, obtaining for Portugal the fifth and last place in discussion, behind Switzerland, Poland, Turkey and Austria. .
Taking into account what was stipulated with the Portuguese Sailing Federation, the sailors who in this last qualifying phase obtained a place for the country would also guarantee their presence in the Olympic Games, which is why the Lima native Mafalda Pires will be the Portuguese representative in women’s kitesurfing. . in the French capital.
The Portuguese sailor thus reached the third place in the country in sailing and will be the fourth national representative, after Eduardo Marques (in ILCA 7) and Diogo Costa and Carolina João (470 mixed) also completed their classifications in their respective categories.
In horse riding, dressage guarantees a collective quota, so, in addition to the presence in the obstacle course (place secured for the country by Duarte Seabra), Portugal will take three other riders to Paris 2024, who will both participate in the team . competition and individual test.
There are also four guaranteed places in the triathlon, as the mixed relay is classified, with two women and two men, who will participate in the individual events.
In canoeing, Teresa Portela got a place in the K1 500 meters, Fernando Pimenta in the K1 1,000 meters, an event in which he won a bronze medal in Tokyo 2020, and João Ribeiro and Messias Baptista in the K2 500. The four selected.
The surfers Teresa Bonvalot and Yolanda Hopkins, fifth in Tokyo 2020, the gymnasts Filipa Martins, in all-around competition, and Gabriel Albuquerque, in trampolines, and the shooter Maria Inês Barros, in shooting with hunting weapons (trap), complete the Portuguese team.
2024-06-01 19:47:36
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