This Saturday, the Portuguese Samuel Barata (Benfica) and Mariana Machado (SC Braga) won the 14th edition of the São Silvestre de Lisboa (10 km), and the men won the traditional 'war of the sexes', since the athlete incarnate was the strongest in the fight of men against women (the latter always leave four minutes early).
For 2022, Samuel Barata's main goal is the 10,000 meters in the open-air Europeans, but first he hopes to help Benfica in the cross-country European Champions Cup and fight for the 10,000 meters National.
Mariana Machado, passed by Samuel Barata on Marquês de Pombal's descent to Restauradores, where the goal was, won the race in 33.09 minutes, 38 seconds less than Lia Lemos (Sporting) and 1.04 than Jessica Augusto (Sporting), winner in 2019.
"Winning on my debut, at age 21, is also very good, it's a reward for my work. Winning a competition like this, with this history and with world-class athletes, makes me very happy. Unfortunately, we couldn't win the 'War of the Sexes', but the males did very well and ran very fast, congratulations are due," he said.
The medical student considers that she finishes "on a high" a 2021 "very challenging and with many obstacles", with the bronze in the European under-23 cross country and the victory in São Silvestre.
"I leave here much more motivated for what lies ahead, because these results require a lot of discipline and I leave more motivated for the goals of the next season: to improve all my personal records, have more international appearances and continue to win many more medals for the Our country. of great inspiration and I hope one day to have a career like that too," he said.
For Mariana Machado, "having a mother [Albertina Machado] an Olympic athlete three times is a great motivation, because it is a daily example"
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