The Olympic triple jump champion Pedro Pichardo leads the Portuguese call, announced this Tuesday, for the Krakow 2023 European Games, which start on June 21 in Poland and award the European team athletics title.
In total, there are 43 athletes who will be in Poland competing for Portugal between June 23 and 25, in a championship in which the tests count for the final score by teams, in addition to dividing them by divisions for the next tournaments.
Portugal is currently part of the first division, with 16 teams, the main ones in European athletics. Pichardo, Olympic champion in Tokyo 2020, is the main name of the call and had already assumed his desire to participate to win the “missing title” for the country, after the European, world and Olympic gold titles, since in this collective appointment there are also individual medals for each discipline.
In European teams, the 29-year-old ‘triple player’ won the competition in 2019, when Portugal competed in the second division, and in 2021 he was second, with Portugal already promoted to the highest level.
The Portuguese squad includes several top-level athletes, who have participated in the Olympic Games and medaled in European and World Cups, such as Auriol Dongmo, in the shot put, and Liliana Cá, in the discus throw.
Carlos Nascimento, Arialis Martinez, Cátia Azevedo, Evelise Veiga, Francisco Belo, Isaac Nader, Lorene Bazolo and Marta Pen are other prominent players on the list, dominated by Benfica and Sporting.
Portugal will be represented by 210 athletes in 23 sports in the third edition of the European Games, from June 21 to July 2 in Krakow and in the Malopolska region.
Consult the list of 43 summoned:
– Men (23):
André Prazeres (4x100m), Carlos Nascimento (100m and 4x100m), Décio Andrade (hammer throw), Delvis Santos (200m and 4x100m), Emanuel Sousa (discus throw), Etson Barros (3,000m hurdles), Francisco Belo (put shot), Frederico Curvelo (4x100m), Gabriel Maia (4x100m), Gerson Baldé (high jump), Isaac Nader (1,500m), Ivo Tavares (long jump), João Coelho (400m and 4x400m mixed), José Carlos Pinto (800m), Leandro Ramos (javelin throw), Mauro Pereira (4x400m mixed), Pedro Buaró (pole vault), Pedro Pichardo (triple jump), Ricardo dos Santos (4x400m mixed), Rúben Amaral (5000m) , Sisínio Ambriz (110m hurdles and 4x100m), Tiago Luís Pereira (substitute) and Yuben Munary (400m hurdles).
– Woman (20):
Anabela Neto (high jump), Arialis Martinez (100m, 200m and 4x100m), Auriol Dongmo (shot put), Beatriz Andrade (4x100m), Carina Vanessa (4x400m mixed), Catarina Queirós (100m hurdles), Cátia Azevedo (400m 4x400m mixed), Cláudia Ferreira (javelin throw), Evelise Veiga (long jump and triple jump), Fatoumata Diallo (400m hurdles and 4x400m mixed), Íris Silva (4x100m), Laura Taborda (3000m hurdles), Liliana Cá (discus throw), Lorene Bazolo (4x100m), Mariana Machado (5,000m), Mariana Pestana (hammer throw), Marta Onofre (pole vault), Marta Pen (1,500m), Patrícia Silva (800m) and Rosalina Santos (4x100m).
Source: TSF
