This Sunday, in the Valencia Marathon, Samuel Barata and Susana Godinho became the last Portuguese to achieve the minimum for the athletics events of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, raising the number of Portuguese athletes in that sport to six.
Samuel Barata finished the Spanish race in 02:07.35 hours, which earned him 22nd place, while Susana Godinho was 24th in the women’s elite, with 02:25.35, achieving her personal best.
In this way, there are now 23 qualifying places for the Portuguese colors, although, in athletics, with the ranking giving 50% of the places and the rest to be occupied by athletes with minimum qualifications, it will not be known until June 30, 2024. that the final determination list will be known.
However, Auriol Dongmo, in the shot put, Isaac Nader, in the 1,500 meters, João Coelho, in the 400 meters, and Ana Cabecinha, in the 20 kilometer walk, have already reached the qualification mark required by World Athletics.
The last discipline that guaranteed its presence in Paris 2024 was trampoline gymnastics, after Pedro Ferreira and Gabriel Albuquerque reached the men’s individual trampoline final of the World Gymnastics Championships.
Despite being represented by two gymnasts in the final in Birmingham, England, Portugal was only entitled to a place for the Paris 2024 Games, as the eight finalists in the men’s and women’s competitions guaranteed a place for the country, with the limitation of one vacancy per nation.
With sixth place in the time trial of the last World Championship, Nelson Oliveira had already secured himself for the Portuguese colors in this specialty, with the ranking giving two places in the distance race and one more in the ‘chrono’, with the two The cyclists will have to be the same in both tests.
Portugal, 12th in the men’s ranking, thus repeats the two cyclists from Tokyo2020, still to be defined by the coach, once again having a cyclist in the women’s long-distance race, something that has not happened since Atlanta1996.
In artistic gymnastics, Filipa Martins also achieved a place thanks to 27th place in the classification and qualification for the All-Around final of the World Championships in Antwerp, Belgium.
The gymnast won one of the 14 individual places for the All-Around after taking into account the team quotas.
Portugal already has a certain presence in athletics, canoeing, swimming, surfing, sailing and hunting weapons shooting.
At the end of September, Maria Inês Barros ‘sealed’ a place for the Portuguese team by becoming European champion in clay pigeon shooting, in Osijek, Croatia.
Teresa Portela got one of the three places in canoeing, in K1 500 meters, after eighth place in the final of the World Championships in Duisburg, Germany.
The K1 500 was the third boat qualified for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, after the K1 1,000, with the silver of Fernando Pimenta in the same competition, and the K2 500, of the world champions João Ribeiro and Messias Baptista.
In swimming, four swimmers are guaranteed in Paris, highlighting Diogo Ribeiro, world runner-up in the 50-meter butterfly, who has already reached minimums in the 50 and 100-meter freestyle and in the 100-meter butterfly.
For the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, which will be held between July 26 and August 11 next year, João Costa (100 meters backstroke), Camila Rebelo (200 meters backstroke) and Miguel Nascimento (50 meters freestyle) also have minima.
Thanks to the World Surf League ranking, Teresa Bonvalot knows that she will compete for the second consecutive year in the surfing competition at the Olympic Games, which will be held in French Polynesia.
In sailing, Diogo Costa and Carolina João were the first to get a place for Portugal, in 470, at the World Championships in The Hague, where Eduardo Marques also got a place in the ILCA 7.
Vasileia Karachilou, a Greek competing for Portugal with a special World Sailing license, also secured a place in ILCA 6, but must have Portuguese nationality by March 2024, otherwise the place will be awarded to another nation.
The Greek Olympic Committee has already said that it did not authorize the participation of the sailor with Portugal, although the Portuguese Sailing Federation maintains hope in the presence of Vasileia Karachilou.
Source: TSF
