The Portuguese athletics national team remained today among the elite of the sport in Europe, at the end of the European Championship for national teams in Chorzow, Poland, as part of the program of the Kraków 2023 European Games, finishing in eighth place.
With 315 points, the Portuguese team was well above the 'waterline', in a division in which Norway, 16th, Turkey, 15th, and Belgium, 14th, fell to the second division, with Italy crowned, with 426.50 points, 24.50 more than the hosts, Poland.
Auriol Dongmo Gold Medal
In Chorzow, home of the European Team Championship for two consecutive editions, the best result of the day was fifth place overall by Leandro Ramos, in the javelin throw, with 81.62 meters, the best mark of the season for the Portuguese, which earned him the third place among athletes of the main division.
The 4x400 meters mixed relay, with João Coelho, Cátia Azevedo, Ricardo dos Santos and Fatoumata Diallo, broke the national record today, achieving 3.14.06 minutes, while Rúben Amaral was 16th and last in the 5,000 meters, more than half a minute behind the penultimate.
Marta Pen was seventh in the 1,500 meters, with 4:13.50 minutes, while Cláudia Ferreira set a new personal best in the javelin throw, 55.82 meters, the sixth best record.
In the 200 meters, the sprinter Arialis Martinez achieved the sixth best record, 23.12 seconds, and in weight Francisco Belo was eighth, with 19.64 meters, and Catarina Queirós was a resource solution in the long jump, with 5.53 meters .
Anabela Neto achieved the best mark of the year with 1.84 meters, in the high jump, a discipline in which Gerson Baldé was seventh, with 2.17 meters.
Delvis Santos made the best mark of the season in the 200 meters, with 21.18 seconds.
Portugal leaves Chorzow with three podiums, gold for Auriol Dongmo in the shot put and silver for João Coelho (400 meters) and Isaac Nader (1,500 meters), in addition to ensuring permanence among the elite.
So far, Portugal has nine podiums in Kraków2023, namely three golds, three silvers and three bronzes, the last of which was won today by the padel duo Afonso Fazendeiro/Miguel Oliveira, in addition to two other 'metals' already secured, in muaythai.
The third edition of the European Games runs until July 2 in Krakow and in the Polish region of Malopolska, with 30 sports on the program and 48 participating countries, including Portugal, which has a delegation of more than two hundred athletes.
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