History

Portugal made its first Summer Olympic appearance in 1912 and has competed ever since. The nation sends a large delegation with over 70 athletes competing over the last four Olympics. The athletes compete in a variety of sports including, athletics, canoeing, equestrian, judo, sailing, shooting and swimming.

Portugal won its first medal in 1924 and has won a total of 24 medals across 9 sports. The most successful sports include athletics (9), sailing (4) and equestrian (3). The most successful athletes are long distance runners Carlos Lopes, Rosa Mota and Fernanda Ribeiro and equestrian Luis Mena e Silva whom all won two medals. Lopes won gold in the men’s marathon (1984) and silver in the men’s 10000m (1976), Mota won gold (1988) and bronze (1984) in the women’s marathon, Ribeiro won gold (1996) and bronze (2000) in the women’s 10000m and Mena e Silva won two bronze medals, one in team jumping (1936) and another in team dressage (1948). In 2016 Portugal won a single medal.

Qualified Quotas

Athletics

Men’s Events

Event	Qualifying Athletes	Selected Athletes
Men’s 50km Walk	Joao Vieira
Men’s Triple Jump	Pedro Pichardo
Men’s Shot Put	Francisco Belo

Women’s Events

Event	Qualifying Athletes	Selected Athletes
Women’s 20km Walk	Ana Cabecinha
Women’s Marathon	Salome Rocha
	Sara Ribeiro
	Sara Moreira
Women’s Triple Jump	Patricia Mamona
	Evelise Veiga
Women’s Shot Put	Auriol Dongmo
Women’s Discus Throw	Liliana Ca

Canoeing

Event	Qualifying Athletes	Selected Athletes
Men’s K1 Slalom	Antoine Launay
Women’s K1 200m	Teresa Portela
Men’s K1 1000m	Fernando Pimenta
Women’s K1 500m	Joana Vasconcelos
Men’s K4 500m	Emanuel Silva Joao Ribeiro David Varela Messias Baptista

Cycling

Event	Qualifying Athletes	Selected Athletes
Women’s Cross-Country	Raquel Queiros
Men’s Road Race	Qualified Via Rankings
Men’s Time Trial (1) (2)	Nelson Oliveira
	Qualified Via Rankings
Women’s Omnium	Qualified Via Rankings

Equestrian

Event	Qualifying Athletes	Selected Athletes
Individual Dressage	From Team Quota
	From Team Quota
	From Team Quota
Team Dressage	Duarte Nogueira Horse: Beirao Rodrigo Torres Horse: Fogoso Joao Miguel Torrao Horse: Equador Maria Caetano Horse: Coroado
Individual Jumping	Luciana Diniz Horse: Vertigo du Desert

Gymnastics

Event	Qualifying Athletes	Selected Athletes
Women’s Artistic Individual Events	Filipa Martins
Men’s Trampoline	Diogo Abreu

Handball

Event	Qualifying Athletes	Selected Athletes
Men’s Tournament	Pedro Portela Victor Iturriza Miguel Martins Belone Moreira Manuel Gaspar Rui Silva Daymaro Salina Tiago Rocha Diogo Branquinho Alexandre Cavalcanti Antonio Areia Andre Gomes Leonel Fernandes Diogo Silva Gustavo Capdeville Luis Frade Fabio Magalhaes

Rowing

Event	Qualifying Athletes	Selected Athletes
Men’s Lightweight Double Sculls	Pedro Fraga Afonso Costa

Sailing

Event	Qualifying Athletes	Selected Athletes
Women’s Laser Radial	Carolina Joao
Men’s 470	Diogo Costa Pedro Costa
Men’s 49er	Jorge Lima Jose Costa

Shooting

Event	Qualifying Athletes	Selected Athletes
Men’s Trap	Joao Azevedo

Skateboarding

Event	Qualifying Athletes	Selected Athletes
Men’s Street	Gustavo Ribeiro

Surfing

Event	Qualifying Athletes	Selected Athletes
Men’s Shortboard	Frederico Morais
Women’s Shortboard	Yolanda Sequeira
	Teresa Bonvalot

Swimming

Men’s Events

Event	Qualifying Athletes	Selected Athletes
Men’s 200m Individual Medley	Alexis Santos
	Gabriel Lopes

Women’s Events

Event	Qualifying Athletes	Selected Athletes
Women’s 1500m Freestyle	Tamila Holub
	Diana Duraes
Women’s 200m Butterfly	Ana Monteiro

Table Tennis

Event	Qualifying Athletes	Selected Athletes
Men’s Singles	From Team Quota
	From Team Quota
Women’s Singles (1) (2)	Fu Yu	Fu Yu
	Jieni Shao
Men’s Team	Tiago Apolonia Marcos Freitas Joao Monteiro Diogo Carvalho Joao Geraldo	Tiago Apolonia Marcos Freitas Joao Monteiro

Taekwondo

Event	Qualifying Athletes	Selected Athletes
Men’s -58kg	Rui Braganca

Triathlon

Event	Qualifying Athletes	Selected Athletes
Men’s Individual	Joao Silva
	Joao Pereira
Women’s Individual	Melanie Santos