Portugal at the 2024 Summer Olympics explained

Portugal competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris from 26 July to 11 August 2024. It was the 26th consecutive participation of the nation in the Summer Olympic Games since their debut at the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm.

These were the most successful Olympic Games for Portugal as the delegation won a total of four medals, including one gold, two silvers and one bronze, improving from their previous best-ever participation in Tokyo 2020 (one gold, one silver and two bronzes). For the first time ever, Portugal won medals in Olympic track cycling in their second participation in the discipline (after Tokyo 2020), first in the men's events. By winning a gold medal in the men's Madison and a silver medal in the men's omnium in his Olympic debut, Iúri Leitão became the first Portuguese Olympic champion in a sport outside of athletics and the first Portuguese Olympian to win two medals in a single edition of the Games. Portuguese judokas won a bronze medal for the third consecutive Games, as Patrícia Sampaio (women's 78 kg) followed the footsteps of Jorge Fonseca (men's 100 kg) in Tokyo 2020 and Telma Monteiro (women's 57 kg) in Rio 2016.

Medalists

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Medals by sport
Sport	bgcolor=#f7f6a8		bgcolor=#dce5e5		bgcolor=#ffdab9		Total
Judo	0	0	1	1
Athletics	0	1	0	1
Cycling	1	1	0	2
Total	1	2	1	4

Medals by gender
Gender				Total
Female	0	0	1	1
Male	1	2	0	3
Mixed	0	0	0	0
Total	style=background:gold	1	style=background:silver	2	style=background:#c96	1	4

Medals by date
Date	bgcolor=#f7f6a8		bgcolor=#dce5e5		bgcolor=#ffdab9		Total
01 August	0	0	1	1
08 August	0	1	0	1
09 August	0	1	0	1
10 August	1	0	0	1
Total	1	2	1	4

Multiple medalists
Name	Sport				Total
		1	1	0	2

Competitors

The competitors taking part in the Games are distributed per sport and per gender as follows:

width=180	Sport	width=55	Men	width=55	Women	width=55	Total
Athletics	9	13	22
Breaking	0	1	1
Canoeing	3	1	4
Cycling	4	3	7
Equestrian	3	2	5
Gymnastics	1	1	2
Judo	2	5	7
Sailing	2	2	4
Shooting	0	1	1
Skateboarding	2	0	2
Surfing	0	2	2
Swimming	3	2	5
Table tennis	3	2	5
Tennis	2	0	2
Triathlon	2	2	4
Total	36	37	73

Athletics

See main article: Athletics at the 2024 Summer Olympics and Athletics at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification. Portuguese track and field athletes achieved the entry standards for Paris 2024, either by passing the direct qualifying mark (or time for track and road races) or by world ranking, in the following events (a maximum of 3 athletes each):^[1]

Track and road events

Athlete	Event	Heat		Repechage		Semifinal		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
João Coelho	Men's 400 m	45.35	4 R	45.64	5	Did not advance
Isaac Nader	Men's 1500 m	3:35.44	6 Q	3:34.75	8	Did not advance
Samuel Barata	Men's marathon	2:13:23	48
align=left rowspan=2	Lorène Bazolo	Women's 100 m	11.38	5	Did not advance
Women's 200 m	23.10	5 R	23.08	4	Did not advance
Cátia Azevedo	Women's 400 m	52.73	8 R	52.04	5	Did not advance
Salomé Afonso	Women's 1500 m	4:04.42	5 Q	3:59.96	12	Did not advance
Mariana Machado	Women's 5000 m	15:23.26	11	Did not advance
Fatoumata Diallo	Women's 400 m hurdles	54.75	2 Q	54.93	6	Did not advance
Ana Cabecinha	align=left rowspan=2	Women's 20 km walk	1:46:30	43
Vitória Oliveira	1:36:22	38
Susana Godinho	Women's marathon	2:35:57	57

Field events

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Pedro Buaró	Men's pole vault	5.40	=25	Did not advance
Francisco Belo	align=left rowspan=2	Men's shot put		–	Did not advance
Tsanko Arnaudov	20.31	16	Did not advance
Pedro Pichardo	align=left rowspan=2	Men's triple jump	17.44	1 Q	17.84
Tiago Pereira	16.36	25	Did not advance
Leandro Ramos	Men's javelin throw	75.73	28	Did not advance
Agate de Sousa	Women's long jump	6.34	24	Did not advance
Jéssica Inchude	align=left rowspan=2	Women's shot put	18.36	9 q	18.41	8
Eliana Bandeira	17.97	15	Did not advance
Irina Rodrigues	align=left rowspan=2	Women's discus throw	62.90	10 q	61.19	9
Liliana Cá	62.43	14	Did not advance

Breaking

See main article: article, Breaking at the 2024 Summer Olympics and Breaking at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification. Portugal competed in the inaugural Olympic breaking tournaments after securing one of the 16 places in the B-Girls event via performance at the 2024 Olympic Qualifier Series.

Canoeing

See main article: Canoeing at the 2024 Summer Olympics and Canoeing at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification.

Sprint

Portuguese canoeists qualified boats in each of the following distances for the Games through the 2023 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Duisburg, Germany.^{[2] [3]} On 18 April 2024, after a national trial competition, the Portuguese Canoe Federation officially selected the canoeists that had originally secured the quotas at the World Championships.^[4]

Athlete	Event	Heats		Quarterfinals		Semifinals		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Fernando Pimenta	Men's K-1 1000 m	3:29.76	1	3:29.14	2 FA	3:29.59	6
Messias Baptista João Ribeiro	Men's K-2 500 m	1:28.10	2	1:27.64	3 FA	1:27.82	6
Teresa Portela	Women's K-1 500 m	1:51.03	3	1:52.40	4	1:50.28	3 FB	1:52.38	10

Qualification Legend: FA = Qualify to final (medal); FB = Qualify to final B (non-medal); FC = Qualify to final C (non-medal)

Cycling

See main article: article, Cycling at the 2024 Summer Olympics and Cycling at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification.

Road

Portugal qualified three riders – two men and one woman – to compete in the Olympic road events, by virtue of the nation's UCI World Ranking. ^[5]

Men

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
align=left rowspan=2	Rui Costa	Road race	6:26:57	46
Time trial	39:00.07	25
align=left rowspan=2	Nelson Oliveira	Road race	6:23:16	33
Time trial	37:43.15	7

Women

Track

Portugal entered three riders for men's omnium, madison, and women's omnium events, based on the nations performances, through the final UCI Olympic rankings.

Omnium

Athlete	Event	Scratch race		Tempo race		Elimination race		Points race		Total
		Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points
Iúri Leitão	Men's omnium	7	28	2	38	7	28	2	59		153
Maria Martins	Women's omnium	13	16	8	26	15	12	15	7	14	61

Madison

Mountain biking

Portugal mountain bikers secured one female quota place for the Olympic through the release of the final Olympic mountain biking rankings.

Equestrian

See main article: Equestrian events at the 2024 Summer Olympics and Equestrian events at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification. Portugal entered a squad of four equestrians. Portuguese equestrians qualified for the team dressage events and individual jumping events, through the establishments of final olympics ranking.

Dressage

Athlete	Horse	Event	Grand Prix		Grand Prix Special		Grand Prix Freestyle
			Score	Rank	Score	Rank	Score	Rank
Maria Caetano	Hit Plus	Individual	66.630	50	Did not advance
Rita Ralão Duarte	Irao	68.261	44	Did not advance
António do Vale	Fine Fellow	66.910	48	Did not advance
Maria Caetano Rita Ralão Duarte António do Vale	See above	Team	201.801	12	Did not advance

Qualification Legend: Q = Qualified for the final based on position in group; q = Qualified for the final based on overall position

Jumping

Gymnastics

See main article: Gymnastics at the 2024 Summer Olympics and Gymnastics at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification.

Artistic

Portuguese artistic gymnasts secured athlete quota places for the following events in Paris 2024. Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020 Olympian Ana Filipa Martins booked a spot in the Olympic women's individual all-around event for the third consecutive Games by being one of the top 14 all-arounders from a NOC that did not qualify a team at the 2023 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Antwerp, Belgium.^[6]

Women

Trampoline

Portugal secured one athlete quota place for the men's Olympic event, after placing two gymnasts in the top eight of the men's individual event at the 2023 World Championships in Birmingham, Great Britain.^[7]

Judo

See main article: article, Judo at the 2024 Summer Olympics and Judo at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification. Portugal qualified seven judoka (two men and five women) for the following weight classes at the Games:

Men

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage	Final /
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
João Fernando	−81 kg	L 00–10	Did not advance
Jorge Fonseca	−100 kg	L 00–10	Did not advance

Women

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage	Final /
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Catarina Costa	−48 kg	W 01–00	L 00–10	Did not advance
Bárbara Timo	−63 kg	L 00–10	Did not advance
Taís Pina	−70 kg	L 00–01	Did not advance
Patrícia Sampaio	−78 kg	W 10–00	W 11–00	W 10–00	L 00–01		W 10–00
Rochele Nunes	+78 kg	W 10–00	L 00–10	Did not advance

Sailing

See main article: Sailing at the 2024 Summer Olympics and Sailing at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification. Portuguese sailors qualified one boat in each of the following classes through the 2023 Sailing World Championships, the class-associated World Championships, and the continental regattas.

Elimination events

Medal race events

Athlete	Event	Race											Net points	Final rank
		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	M*
Eduardo Marques	Men's ILCA7	5	11	31	15	35	1	44	3	Cancelled		EL	101	11
Diogo Costa Carolina João	Mixed 470	20	3	16	14	2	4	2	8	Cancelled		2	53	5

M = Medal race; EL = Eliminated – did not advance into the medal race

Shooting

See main article: Shooting at the 2024 Summer Olympics and Shooting at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification. Portuguese shooters achieved quota places for the following events by virtue of their best finishes at the 2023 European Shotgun Championships:

Skateboarding

See main article: Skateboarding at the 2024 Summer Olympics and Skateboarding at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification. Portugal will enter two skateboarders in the Olympic competition, one more than at the previous Games, after each secured a top 20 place in their respective event's Olympic World Skating Rankings on 23 June 2024. Gustavo Ribeiro will compete for the second consecutive Games in the men's street event, while Thomas Augusto will make his and Portugal's debut in the men's park event.

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Thomas Augusto	Men's park	81.75	13	Did not advance
Gustavo Ribeiro	Men's street	142.14	17	Did not advance

Surfing

See main article: Surfing at the 2024 Summer Olympics and Surfing at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification. Portuguese surfers confirmed two quota places for the women's shortboard event. Tokyo 2020 Olympian Teresa Bonvalot finished among the top eight surfers eligible for qualification in the 2023 World Surf League rankings to secure a spot on the Portuguese roster for her second Games.^{[8] [9]} Meanwhile, the other Tokyo 2020 Olympian, Yolanda Hopkins, also qualified for her second Games after securing one of eight eligible quota places at the 2024 World Surfing Games in Arecibo, Puerto Rico.^[10]

Athlete	Event	Round 1		Round 2	Round 3	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final /
		Score	Rank	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Teresa Bonvalot	align=left rowspan=2	Women's shortboard	10.34	3 R2	L 6.84–9.77	Did not advance
Yolanda Hopkins	7.00	3 R2	W 4.67–1.27	L 12.34–9.90	Did not advance

Qualification legend: R3 - Qualifies to elimination rounds; R2 - Qualifies to repechage round

Swimming

See main article: article, Swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics and Swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification. Portuguese swimmers achieved the entry standards in the following events for Paris 2024 (a maximum of two swimmers under the Olympic Qualifying Time (OQT) and potentially at the Olympic Consideration Time (OCT):^{[11] [12]}

Qualifiers for the latter rounds (Q) of all events were decided on a time only basis, therefore positions shown are overall results versus competitors in all heats.

Men

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
João Costa	100 m backstroke	54.90	32	Did not advance
Miguel Nascimento	50 m freestyle	22.49	36	Did not advance
align=left rowspan=3	Diogo Ribeiro	50 m freestyle	21.91	=13 Q	22.01	16	Did not advance
100 m freestyle	48.88	29	Did not advance
100 m butterfly	51.90	20	Did not advance

Women

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Camila Rebelo	200 m backstroke	2:11.26	19	Did not advance
Angélica André	10 km open water	2:06:17.0	12

Table tennis

See main article: Table tennis at the 2024 Summer Olympics and Table tennis at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification. Portugal qualified a table tennis squad for the men's team event the Games after reaching the quarter-finals of the 2024 World Team Table Tennis Championships in Busan, South Korea. Two of those players will also participate in the men's singles event.^[13] In addition, the country qualified two players for the women's singles event at the Games, after Shao Jieni and Fu Yu secured one of five quota places in offer at the 2024 European Olympic Singles Qualification tournament in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final /
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Marcos Freitas	align=left rowspan=2	Men's singles	L 0–4	Did not advance
Tiago Apolónia	L 1–4	Did not advance
Marcos Freitas Tiago Apolónia João Geraldo	Men's team	L 1–3	Did not advance
Shao Jieni	align=left rowspan=2	Women's singles	W 4–2	L 2–4	Did not advance
Fu Yu	W 4–0	L 3–4	Did not advance

Tennis

See main article: article, Tennis at the 2024 Summer Olympics and Tennis at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification. Portugal entered two tennis players into the Olympic tournament.

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final /
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Nuno Borges	align=left rowspan=2	Men's singles	L 2–6, 2–6	Did not advance
Francisco Cabral	L 2–6, 2–6	Did not advance
Nuno Borges Francisco Cabral	Men's doubles		W 3–6, 6–3, [12–10]	L 2–6, 2–6	Did not advance

Triathlon

See main article: Triathlon at the 2024 Summer Olympics and Triathlon at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification. Portugal qualified a team of four triathletes (two men and two women) to compete in the mixed relay event at the Olympics, after finishing as one of the six eligible best-placed NOCs in the World Triathlon Mixed Relay Olympic Qualification Ranking of 25 March 2024.

Individual

Athlete	Event	Time						Rank
		Swim (1.5 km)	Trans 1	Bike (40 km)	Trans 2	Run (10 km)	Total
Ricardo Batista	align=left rowspan=2	Men's	21:10	0:46	51:29	0:27	30:06	1:43:58	6
Vasco Vilaça	21:03	0:52	51:30	0:27	30:04	1:43:56	5
Melanie Santos	align=left rowspan=2	Women's	24:20	0:57	1:01:00	0:28	37:03	2:03:48	45
Maria Tomé	24:17	0:56	57:34	0:31	33:55	1:57:13	11

Relay

Athlete	Event	Time						Rank
		Swim (300 m)	Trans 1	Bike (7 km)	Trans 2	Run (2 km)	Total group
Ricardo Batista	align=left rowspan=5	Mixed relay	4:20	1:12	9:22	0:23	4:59	20:16	rowspan=4
Melanie Santos	5:05	1:07	10:27	0:26	5:49	22:54
Vasco Vilaça	4:19	1:01	9:31	0:23	5:02	20:16
Maria Tomé	5:04	1:12	11:02	0:26	5:58	23:42
Total	1:27:08	5

See also

• Portugal at the 2024 Winter Youth Olympics

Notes and References

1. News: Athletics at Paris 2024: The entry standards. International Olympic Committee. 20 December 2022. 27 December 2022.
2. News: First 25 Olympic quotas earned in Duisburg. 25 August 2023. International Canoe Federation. 9 September 2023.
3. News: ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships 2023: All final results, Paris 2024 qualification berths, and medals table - complete list. 28 August 2023. International Olympic Committee. 9 September 2023.
4. Web site: Teresa Portela, Fernando Pimenta, Messias Baptista e João Ribeiro selecionados para os Jogos Olímpicos . Comité Olímpico de Portugal . 20 April 2024 . pt-PT . 18 March 2020.
5. News: Road cycling at París 2024: Quota distribution for next Olympic Games decided following publication of UCI World Ranking by Nations. 18 October 2023. International Olympic Committee. 20 October 2023.
6. News: Rendez-vous Paris 2024: See who qualified to the women's team competition!. FIG. 3 October 2023. 3 October 2023.
7. News: World Trampoline Championships 2023: Bryony Page and Yan Langyu secure second world titles - Results. International Olympic Committee. 29 November 2023.
8. News: Teresa Bonvalot, Johanne Defay, Brisa Hennessy, and Tatiana Weston-Webb Secure Slots for Paris 2024 Olympics via World Surf League Championship Tour. International Surfing Association. 19 April 2023. 23 April 2023.
9. News: Teresa Bonvalot assegura vaga olímpica no surf em Paris 2024. Teresa Bonvalot secures an Olympic surfing spot for Paris 2024. pt. Público. 18 April 2023. 18 April 2023.
10. Web site: World Surfing Games 2024: All results, heat scores, and medals - complete list. Olympics. 4 March 2024. 4 March 2024.
11. Web site: Paris 2024 – Swimming Qualification. World Aquatics. 4 June 2023.
12. News: 30 March 2023. 4 June 2023. Diogo Ribeiro garante presença em Paris 2024 com recorde nacional nos 50 metros livres. Diogo Ribeiro qualifies for Paris 2024 with a national record in the men's 50 m freestyle. pt. Diário de Notícias.
13. Web site: Table tennis: These teams have obtained a Paris 2024 qualifying quota spot. Olympics. 21 February 2024. 23 February 2024.