Portugal with five cyclists in the track cycling world championship
In addition to ‘Tata’ Martins, ranked seventh in the omnium race of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, the Portuguese debut in Olympic track cycling, and bronze medal in the scratch of the 2020 World Championship, the team will have Ivo Oliveira, silver medal at the 2018 World Cups, in individual pursuit.
Ivo is the twin brother of Rui Oliveira, another called up with several medals in European championships, in a list that is complete with Daniela Campos and João Matias.
The squad was announced today by the coach, Gabriel Mendes, at a ceremony at the National Velodrome, in Sangalhos, in the municipality of Anadia, district of Aveiro.
The coach will announce next week as a runner that each will participate, with Portugal qualified, men, for the omnium, madison, elimination and scratch points, mad also participate in and in the individual pursuit.
Maria Martin and Daniela Campos are temporary for races, elimination, and zero points.
Ivo Oliveira 26 years old, adds results at the highest level in the individual pursuit, a discipline in which he was the first European in 2020 and 2 other second silver in 2017 and 2 second silver in 2017 and 2020, also adding second silver in the 2020 Europeans, at madison, there next to his brother.
For his part, Rui Oliveira was European scratch champion in 2021, having also two silvers and two continental bronzes, alongside several podiums, like his brother, in world championships for juniors.
A Portuguese pioneer in the Olympic Games, Maria Martins, 23, has already won two bronzes in Europeans, in addition to the ‘metal’ she won at the 2020 world championship in Berlin, with Daniela Campos, 20, arriving as the youngest of the quintet, although he already has several medals in European under-23 championships.
João Matias, the oldest of the cyclists called up, at 31, brings silver as his main track in the elimination race of the Europeans in Grenchen, in 2021, adding, moreover, to several participations in World Cups.
From outside the forums Iúri Leitão, European scratch champion, won this year in Munich, during the European multisports that took place in that German city.