Paris2024: Who are the Portuguese athletes competing at the Olympics?
Seventy-three athletes will be representing Portugal at the 2024 Olympics in Paris.
They will be competing in 15 different sports. Track and field will the most represented, with 22 athletes.
Some of the names to watch for are Pedro Pichardo, who won the triple jump title at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, canoeist Fernando Pimenta and track athlete Ana Cabecinha.
Pimental and Cabecinha will be Portugal's flag-bearers at the opening ceremony on Friday, July 26. The ceremony is expected to begin at 7:30 p.m. in Paris, so 1.30 p.m. EST.
More: Olympics opening ceremony 2024: Everything to know
Here’s a breakdown of the Portuguese athletes who will be competing in the 2024 Summer Olympics:
TRACK AND FIELD
Females
Agate Sousa – long jump
Ana Cabecinha – 20km race walk
Cátia Azevedo - 400 meters
Eliana Bandeira - weight throw
Fatoumata Diallo - 400 meters with hurdles
Irina Rodrigues – discus throw
Jéssica Inchude – weight throw
Liliana Cá – discus throw
Lorene Bazolo - 100 meters e 200 meters
Mariana Machado - 5.000 meters
Salomé Afonso - 1.500 meters
Susana Godinho – marathon
Vitória Oliveira - 20 km walk
Males
Francisco Belo - weight throw
Isaac Nader – 1500 meters
João Coelho – 400 meters
Leandro Ramos - javelin throw
Pedro Buaró – pole vaulting
Pedro Pichardo – triple jump
Samuel Barata – marathon
Tiago Pereira – triple jump
Tsanko Arnaudov - weight throw
BREAKING
Vanessa Marina Cartaxo Farinha
CANOEING
Females
Teresa Portela - K1 500m
Males
Fernando Pimenta - K1 1000m
João Ribeiro and Messias Baptista - K2 500m
CYCLING
Females
Daniela Campos – road cycling
Maria Martins – track cycling
Raquel Queirós - mountain bike
Males
Iúri Leitão - track cycling
Nélson Oliveira - road cycling
Rui Costa - road cycling
Rui Oliveira - track cycling
EQUESTRIAN
Females
Maria Caetano (Dressage)
Rita Ralão (Dressage)
Males
Duarte Seabra (Jumping)
João Moreira (Dressage)
Manuel Grave (CCE)
ARTISTIC GYMNASTICS
Filipa Martins
TRAMPOLINE
Gabriel Albuquerque
JUDO
Females
Bárbara Timo (-63 kg)
Catarina Costa (-48 kg)
Patrícia Sampaio (-78 kg)
Rochele Nunes (+78 kg)
Taís Pina (-70 kg)
Males
João Fernando (-81kg)
Jorge Fonseca (+100kg)
SWIMMING
Females
Angélica André – marathon swimming
Camila Rebelo – 200 meters backstroke
Males
Diogo Ribeiro – 50 meters freestyle, 100 meters freestyle, 100 meters butterfly
João Costa – 100 meters backstroke
Miguel Nascimento – 50 meters freestyle
SKATING
Gustavo Ribeiro (street)
Thomas Augusto (park)
SURFING
Teresa Bonvalot
Yolanda Hopkins
TENNIS
Nuno Borges
Francisco Cabral
TABLE TENNIS
Females
Fu Yu
Jieni Shao
Males
João Geraldo
Marcos Freitas
Tiago Apolónia
SHOOTING
Maria Inês Barros
TRIATHLON
Females
Maria Tomé
Melanie Santos
Males
Ricardo Batista
Vasco Vilaça
SAILING
Females
Mafalda Pires
Carolina João
Males
Diogo Costa
Eduardo Marques
This article originally appeared on The Herald News: Who's representing Portugal at the 2024 Olympics in Paris?
