Portugal at the Paralympics

Portugal at the
Paralympics
Portugal at the; Paralympics
IPC code	POR
NPC	Portuguese Paralympic Committee
Website	www.comiteparalimpicoportugal.pt (in Portuguese and English)
Medals	Gold 27 Silver 31 Bronze 43 Total 101
Summer appearances
	1972; 1976–1980; 1984; 1988; 1992; 1996; 2000; 2004; 2008; 2012; 2016; 2020; 2024;

Portugal made its Paralympic Games début at the 1972 Summer Paralympics (two years before the Carnation Revolution), where it was represented solely by a men's team in wheelchair basketball. They were eliminated at the preliminary stage of the competition, with one victory (over Switzerland) and three defeats. Portugal was then absent from the Paralympic Games until the 1984 Summer Games, where its athletes won the country's first fourteen medals, including three gold in track and field and one in boccia. Portugal has competed at every subsequent edition of the Summer Paralympics, but -almost uniquely among Western European countries^[1]- has never taken part in the Winter Games.^[2]

Portuguese athletes have won a total of 101 Paralympic medals, of which 27 gold, 31 silver and 43 bronze. The country's best performance came in 2000, when it won 15 medals (of which 6 gold) and ranked 26th.^[3]

Medal tallies

Summer Paralympics

Total		27	31	43	101
Games	Athletes	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total	Rank
1972 Heidelberg	11	0	0	0	0	–
1984 New York / Stoke Mandeville	17	4	3	7	14	26
1988 Seoul	13	3	5	6	14	29
1992 Barcelona	30	3	3	3	9	29
1996 Atlanta	35	6	4	4	14	26
2000 Sydney	52	6	5	4	15	26
2004 Athens	29	2	5	5	12	41
2008 Beijing	35	1	4	2	7	42
2012 London	30	0	1	2	3	63
2016 Rio de Janeiro	37	0	0	4	4	73
2020 Tokyo	37	0	0	2	2	77
2024 Paris	27	2	1	4	7	43

Medals by Summer sport

Row in gold background is a sport in which they are leading in i.e. won most world championship titles.


Sport	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
Athletics	18	16	23	57
Boccia	9	10	8	27
Swimming	0	3	7	10
Cycling	0	1	2	3
Football 7-a-side	0	1	0	1
Judo	0	0	1	1
Paracanoe	0	0	1	1
Table tennis	0	0	1	1
Totals (8 entries)	27	31	43	101

Medalists

Medal	Name	Games	Sport	Event
Gold	Reinaldo José Pereira	1984 Stoke Mandeville/New York	Athletics	Men's 100m C8
Gold	António Carlos Martins	1984 Stoke Mandeville/New York	Athletics	Men's 200m C8
Gold	António Carlos Martins	1984 Stoke Mandeville/New York	Athletics	Men's 1500m cross country C8
Gold	António Baltazar Maria Helena Martins António José Mateus	1984 Stoke Mandeville/New York	Boccia	Mixed team
Silver	António Carlos Martins	1984 Stoke Mandeville/New York	Athletics	Men's 100m C8
Silver	Men's relay team	1984 Stoke Mandeville/New York	Athletics	Men's 4 × 100 m relay C7-8
Silver	António José Silva	1984 Stoke Mandeville/New York	Cycling	Men's bicycle 5000m CP div 4
Bronze	Reinaldo José Pereira	1984 Stoke Mandeville/New York	Athletics	Men's 200m C8
Bronze	António Carlos Martins	1984 Stoke Mandeville/New York	Athletics	Men's 800m C8
Bronze	António Carlos Martins	1984 Stoke Mandeville/New York	Athletics	Men's long jump C8
Bronze	Maria Helena Martins	1984 Stoke Mandeville/New York	Athletics	Women's 60m C2
Bronze	Maria Albertina Cabral	1984 Stoke Mandeville/New York	Athletics	Women's 1000m cross country C7
Bronze	Cândido Leite	1984 Stoke Mandeville/New York	Cycling	Men's bicycle 1500m CP div 4
Bronze	Paulo Jorge Santos	1984 Stoke Mandeville/New York	Table tennis	Men's singles C4
Gold	Olga Pinto	1988 Seoul	Athletics	Women's distance throw C1
Gold	Olga Pinto	1988 Seoul	Athletics	Women's precision throw C1
Gold	João Alves António Marques Maria Melo	1988 Seoul	Boccia	Mixed team C1-C2
Silver	José Rebelo	1988 Seoul	Athletics	Men's 100m C8
Silver	José Rebelo	1988 Seoul	Athletics	Men's 200m C8
Silver	Manuel Baltazar	1988 Seoul	Athletics	Men's kick ball C2
Silver	Maria Albertina Cabral	1988 Seoul	Athletics	Women's 200m C7
Silver	Maria Albertina Cabral	1988 Seoul	Athletics	Women's 400m C7
Bronze	José Rebelo	1988 Seoul	Athletics	Men's 400m C8
Bronze	António Marques	1988 Seoul	Athletics	Men's precision throw C1
Bronze	João Alves	1988 Seoul	Athletics	Men's precision throw C1
Bronze	Emilia Costa	1988 Seoul	Athletics	Women's precision throw C1
Bronze	João Alves	1988 Seoul	Boccia	Mixed individual C1
Bronze	Fernando Ferreira	1988 Seoul	Boccia	Mixed individual C2
Gold	Carlos Conceição Lopes	1992 Barcelona	Athletics	Men's 200m B1
Gold	Carlos Conceição Lopes	1992 Barcelona	Athletics	Men's 400m B1
Gold	Paulo de Almeida Coelho	1992 Barcelona	Athletics	Men's 1500m B1
Silver	Paulo de Almeida Coelho	1992 Barcelona	Athletics	Men's 5000m B1
Silver	Fernando Costa	1992 Barcelona	Boccia	Mixed individual C2
Silver	Jerônimo Pereira José Couto Helder Teixeira Carlos Amaral Ferreira Rui Santos Correia Arlindo Silva Mário Santos Candido Machado José Dias João Cardoso Fernando Bento	1992 Barcelona	Football 7-a-side	Men's team
Bronze	Paulo de Almeida Coelho	1992 Barcelona	Athletics	Men's 800m B1
Bronze	Santos Correia José Dias Mário Santos António Jose Silva	1992 Barcelona	Athletics	Men's 4 × 100 m relay C5-8
Bronze	Susana Carvalheira	1992 Barcelona	Swimming	Women's 50m backstroke S3-4
Gold	Domingos Ramião Gomes	1996 Atlanta	Athletics	Men's 400m T10
Gold	Domingos Ramião Gomes	1996 Atlanta	Athletics	Men's 800m T10
Gold	Paulo de Almeida Coelho	1996 Atlanta	Athletics	Men's 1500m T10
Gold	Paulo de Almeida Coelho	1996 Atlanta	Athletics	Men's 5000m T10
Gold	José Macedo	1996 Atlanta	Boccia	Men's individual C1 wad
Gold	Armando Costa José Macedo	1996 Atlanta	Boccia	Mixed pairs C1 wad
Silver	Paulo de Almeida Coelho	1996 Atlanta	Athletics	Men's 800m T10
Silver	João Alves Fernando Ferreira António Marques Pedro Silva	1996 Atlanta	Boccia	Mixed team C1-2
Silver	Susana Barroso	1996 Atlanta	Swimming	Women's 50m backstroke S3
Silver	Susana Barroso	1996 Atlanta	Swimming	Women's 50m freestyle S3
Bronze	Carlos Conceição Lopes	1996 Atlanta	Athletics	Men's 400m T10
Bronze	Carlos Amaral Ferreira	1996 Atlanta	Athletics	Men's 10000m T10
Bronze	J. Onofre da Costa	1996 Atlanta	Athletics	Men's marathon T12
Bronze	Susana Barroso	1996 Atlanta	Swimming	Women's 100m freestyle S3
Gold	Gabriel Potra	2000 Sydney	Athletics	Men's 200m T12
Gold	Carlos Conceição Lopes	2000 Sydney	Athletics	Men's 400m T11
Gold	Paulo de Almeida Coelho	2000 Sydney	Athletics	Men's 1500m T11
Gold	Carlos Amaral Ferreira	2000 Sydney	Athletics	Men's marathon T11
Gold	José Alves Carlos Conceição Lopes José Gameiro Gabriel Potra	2000 Sydney	Athletics	Men's 4 × 400 m relay T13
Gold	José Macedo	2000 Sydney	Boccia	Mixed individual BC3
Silver	Firmino Baptista	2000 Sydney	Athletics	Men's 200m T11
Silver	José Monteiro	2000 Sydney	Athletics	Men's 800m T46
Silver	Carlos Amaral Ferreira	2000 Sydney	Athletics	Men's 10000m T11
Silver	Armando Costa	2000 Sydney	Boccia	Mixed individual BC3
Silver	Susana Barroso	2000 Sydney	Swimming	Women's 50m backstroke S3
Bronze	Gabriel Potra	2000 Sydney	Athletics	Men's 100m T12
Bronze	José Alves	2000 Sydney	Athletics	Men's 400m T13
Bronze	Maria Fernandes	2000 Sydney	Athletics	Women's 400m T38
Bronze	Luis Belchior Fernando Ferreira António Marques Pedro Silva	2000 Sydney	Boccia	Mixed team BC1-BC2
Gold	João Paulo Fernandes	2004 Athens	Boccia	Mixed individual BC1
Gold	João Paulo Fernandes Fernando Ferreira Cristina Gonçalves António Marques	2004 Athens	Boccia	Mixed team BC1/BC2
Silver	Carlos Amaral Ferreira	2004 Athens	Athletics	Men's 10000m T11
Silver	Carlos Amaral Ferreira	2004 Athens	Athletics	Men's marathon T11
Silver	Pedro Silva	2004 Athens	Boccia	Mixed individual BC2
Silver	Bruno Valentim	2004 Athens	Boccia	Mixed individual BC4
Silver	Fernando de Oliveira Pereira Bruno Valentim	2004 Athens	Boccia	Mixed pairs BC4
Bronze	José Alves	2004 Athens	Athletics	Men's 400m T13
Bronze	Fernando Ferreira	2004 Athens	Boccia	Mixed individual BC2
Bronze	João Martins	2004 Athens	Swimming	Men's 50m freestyle S1
Bronze	João Martins	2004 Athens	Swimming	Men's 50m backstroke S1
Bronze	Susana Barroso	2004 Athens	Swimming	Women's 50m backstroke S3
Gold	João Paulo Fernandes	2008 Beijing	Boccia	Mixed individual BC1
Silver	Luís Gonçalves	2008 Beijing	Athletics	Men's 400m T12
Silver	António Marques	2008 Beijing	Boccia	Mixed individual BC1
Silver	João Paulo Fernandes Fernando Ferreira Cristina Gonçalves António Marques	2008 Beijing	Boccia	Mixed team BC1/2
Silver	Armando Costa Mario Peixoto Eunice Raimundo	2008 Beijing	Boccia	Mixed pairs BC3
Bronze	Fernando Pereira Bruno Valentim	2008 Beijing	Boccia	Mixed pairs BC4
Bronze	João Martins	2008 Beijing	Swimming	Men's 50m backstroke S1
Silver	Armando Costa José Macedo Luis Silva	2012 London	Boccia	Mixed pairs BC3
Bronze	Lenine Cunha	2012 London	Athletics	Men's long jump F20
Bronze	José Macedo	2012 London	Boccia	Mixed individual BC3
Bronze	Luís Gonçalves	2016 Rio de Janeiro	Athletics	Men's 400m T12
Bronze	Manuel Mendes	2016 Rio de Janeiro	Athletics	Men's marathon T46
Bronze	José Macedo	2016 Rio de Janeiro	Boccia	Mixed individual BC3
Bronze	Fernando Ferreira Cristina Gonçalves António Marques Abílio Valente	2016 Rio de Janeiro	Boccia	Mixed team BC1-2
Bronze	Miguel Monteiro	2020 Tokyo	Athletics	Men's shot put F40
Bronze	Norberto Mourão	2020 Tokyo	Paracanoeing	Men's VL2
Gold	Miguel Monteiro	2024 Paris	Athletics	Men's shot put F40
Gold	Cristina Gonçalves	2024 Paris	Boccia	Women's individual BC2
Silver	Sandro Baessa	2024 Paris	Athletics	Men's 1500m T20
Bronze	Diogo Cancela	2024 Paris	Swimming	Men's 200m individual medley SM8
Bronze	Luis Costa	2024 Paris	Cycling	Men's road time trial H5
Bronze	Djibrilo Iafa	2024 Paris	Judo	Men's 73 kg J1
Bronze	Carolina Duarte	2024 Paris	Athletics	Women's 400 metres T13

References

^ Only two other Western European countries have participated in the Summer Games but never in the Winter ones: Ireland and Luxembourg. Additionally, the microstates of Monaco, San Marino and the Vatican have never taken part in the Paralympic Games.
^ Portugal at the Paralympics, International Paralympic Committee
^ Portugal at the Paralympics, International Paralympic Committee

[1] Only two other Western European countries have participated in the Summer Games but never in the Winter ones: Ireland and Luxembourg. Additionally, the microstates of Monaco, San Marino and the Vatican have never taken part in the Paralympic Games.

[2] Portugal at the Paralympics, International Paralympic Committee

[3] Portugal at the Paralympics, International Paralympic Committee

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