World Athletics Championships: Portugal ranked 22nd in the medal table
Pedro’s victory in the treble was decisive to place him in the medal table of the Worlds Portugal25 of the medal table of the Worlds top25, in a selection of highlights in an unequal selection and in the jump selection of Pichardo by ‘by’.
Portugal is in 22nd on the medal table and 26th on the points table, with 16, an improvement compared to the records of the next few years.
Clearly up against Doha 2019, the Portuguese also scored in the first eight with Patrícia Mamona (eighth in the triple), Liliana Cá (fifth in the disc) and Auriol Dongmo (sixth in the weight).
With 16 points, the Portuguese surpasses 13 points and is in line with the 17 of London 2017, the best record of the last 10 years. Athens 97’s 34 points, which earned it 14th placeby ‘unreachable’ for a team aged to the level of top athletes.
Pedro Pichardo, 29 years old, is the the only one of the ‘aces’ that did not enter the 30s: Mamona is 33, Cá 35 and Dongmo 31.
On the march, Ana Cabecinha, who for the sixth consecutive time entered the top ten, is 38 years old. And the Medals in previous editions, João Vieira and Inês Henriques, are 42 and 46 years old, respectively.
For the first time, Portugal presented itself without an athlete going to marathons. In the 17 previous editions, there were always marathon runners, highlighting the gold medals of Rosa Mota and Manuela Machado.
Even so, in the middle, I need to be sure, with Mariana Machado beat the personal record in the 5,000 meters, national sub-23, and enter the Portuguese top-10 ever. ONE daughter of former Olympic athlete Albertina Machado She was positive in a prominent sector that is no longer the highlight of the selection.
Pichardo equaled Évora’s record and Mamona repeated the position of three years ago. For the first time, Portugal had two men in the final of the triple, with Tiago Pereira in 10th.
no release of discotheque, Liliana Here equaled Teresa Machado’s sixth position, while Auriol Dongmo took Portugal to the shot put final for the first time.
Note also the unusual sequence of participations by João Vieira, who, between 1999 and 2022, totaled 12 World Cups. Better than him, with 13, only another marcher, the Spaniard Jesus Angel Garcia.
The 18th edition of the world athletics championships ended Sunday, in Eugene, in the US state of Oregon, where Portugal once again won a gold walking medal, five years after Inês Henriques triumphed in the 50 km.
In Doha 2019, only João Vieira took the podium, snatching in the now extinct 50 km.
not Saturday, Pichardo the seventh gold medal Portugal, joining Rosa Mota and Manuela Machado (marathon), Fernanda Ribeiro (10,000 meters), Carla Sacramento (1,500 meters), Nelson Évora (triple jump) and Inês Henriques (50 km march), and the 23rd in total – the fifth in the triple, after Nelson Évora’s four.