Four golds and two silvers on Portugal’s perfect day in Algeria
The Portuguese delegation continues to collect results in the 2022 edition of the Mediterranean Games and, this Saturday, four gold and silver medals were won, with the selection of two women’s handball guaranteeing their presence in the semi-finals of the competition that takes place. in Oran, Algeria.
Leandro Ramos Abdel 8, achieving gold in the dart dart throw 82.23 meters, Felicidade egipcia (78.51m) and the Frenchman Vahai IS, (72.53m).
Still in athletics, glory in the 400 meters came to double: the men’s event was won by João Coelho, who completed the distance in 45.41 seconds, a new record by the Sporting athlete, who surpassed the competition of the Moroccan Hamza Dair (45 .65s) and Algerian Abdennour Bendjemaa (46.06s).
The women’s event also took the Portuguese flag to the highest place on the podium, thanks to Cátia Azevedo who, with the best personal time at the time (51.24s), surpassed Slovenian Anita Horvat and Italian Virginia Troiani.
Swimming gave Portugal the fourth gold of the day, with Camila Rebelo winning the 200 meters and with the right to a new national record: 2.10.41 minutes is the new maximum and arrived to beat the marks of Spain’s Africa Zamorano and Turkey’s Ekaterina Avramova .
After winning gold in the 50 meters mariposa on Friday, Diogo Ribeiro won another medal, this time silver, in the 100 meters freestyle, which he completed in 49.02 seconds, just two seconds from the winner, the Italian Filippo Megli, whose countryman, Alessando Bori, took third.
Daniela Campos secured the silver in the distance race, which was second, the only lost on the podium to the Italian Barbara Guarischi and superior to the Spanish Sandra Alonso.
Meanwhile, the women’s handball team advanced to the semi-finals of the tournament, against North Macedonia by 19-17, Portugal already in the last game beating Group B. goals in disputing the final or the end of the duel for bronze.