Portugal at the 1972 Summer Olympics explained

Noc:	POR
Nocname:	Olympic Committee of Portugal
Games:	Summer Olympics
Year:	1972
Website:
Location:	Munich
Competitors:	28
Sports:	8
Flagbearer:	Armando Aldegalega (athletics)
Gold:	0
Silver:	0
Bronze:	0
Officials:	20
Appearances:	auto
App Begin Year:	1912

Portugal competed at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany. 29 competitors, all men, took part in 28 events in 8 sports.^[1]

Athletics

See main article: Athletics at the 1972 Summer Olympics. Men's 110m Hurdles:

• Alberto Filipe Matos — 1st round: 7th (heat 3)

Men's 400m:

• Fernando Silva — 1st round: 6th (heat 5)

Men's 400m Hurdles:

• José de Jesus Carvalho — 1st round: 6th (heat 5)

Men's 800m:

• Fernando Pacheco Mamede — 1st round: 4th (heat 4)

Men's 1500m:

• Fernando Pacheco Mamede — 1st round: 6th (heat 7)

Men's 5000m:

• Carlos Lopes — 1st round: 9th (heat 1)

Men's 10000m:

• Carlos Lopes — 1st round: 9th (heat 3)

Men's Marathon:

• Armando Aldegalega — 41st (2:28.24,6)

Men's 4 × 400 m:

• Alberto Filipe Matos, Fernando Silva, Fernando Pacheco Mamede and José de Jesus Carvalho — 1st round: 7th (heat 1)

Equestrian

See main article: Equestrian at the 1972 Summer Olympics. Individual Jumping:

• Carlos Campos — 13th
• Francisco Caldeira — eliminated
• Vasco Ramires Sr. — eliminated

Team Jumping:

• Carlos Campos, Francisco Caldeira and Vasco Ramires Sr. — 13th (107,5 points)

Judo

See main article: Judo at the 1972 Summer Olympics. Men's Half-Middleweight (–70 kg):

• António Roquete Andrade — qualifiers (poule A)

Men's Middleweight (–80 kg):

• Orlando Ferreira — qualifiers (poule B)

Rowing

See main article: Rowing at the 1972 Summer Olympics. Men's Single Sculls

• José Lopes Marques

• Heat - 8:39.73

• Repechage - 8:54.27 (→ did not advance)

Double Sculls:

• Carlos Almeida Oliveira and Manuel Silva Barroso — repechage: 4th (heat 2)

Sailing

See main article: Sailing at the 1972 Summer Olympics. Dragon:

• Mário Quina, Fernando Pinto Coelho Bello and Francisco Quina — 21st (120 points)

Finn:

• José Quina — 11th (190,7 points)

Star:

• António Mardel Correia and Ulrich Henrique Anjos — 6th (68,4 points)

Shooting

See main article: Shooting at the 1972 Summer Olympics. Five male shooters represented Portugal in 1972.

25 m pistol

• André Antunes — 36th (578 marks)

50 m pistol

• André Antunes — 55th (510 marks)

50 m rifle, prone

• César Batista — 90th (578 marks)
• Mário Ribeiro — 92nd (575 marks)

50 m rifle, three positions

• César Batista — 61st (1057 marks)
• Mário Ribeiro — 63rd (1051 marks)

Skeet

• José de Matos — 49th (179 marks)

Trap

• Armando Silva Marques — 19th (187 marks)

Weightlifting

See main article: Weightlifting at the 1972 Summer Olympics. Men's Bantamweight (–56 kg):

• Raul Diniz — 21st (285 points)

Wrestling

See main article: Wrestling at the 1972 Summer Olympics. Men's Freestyle Featherweight (–62 kg):

• Orlando Gonçalves — 2nd round: eliminated

Men's Greco-Roman Flyweight (–52 kg):

• Leonel Duarte — 2nd round: eliminated

Men's Greco-Roman Bantamweight (–57 kg):

• Luís Grilo — 4th round: eliminated

Officials

• Fernando Machado (chief of mission)
• Dido Fonseca Aguiar
• Francisco Ferreira Alves
• Fernando Sommer Andrade
• Francisco Augusto
• Luis V. Caldas
• José Carvalhosa
• António Castanheira
• António Madeira Correia
• Domingos A. Souse Coutinho
• Carlos F. Dias Silva
• João Esteves
• Francisco Ferreira
• Manuel Forão
• Francisco Graça Gordo
• Carlos M. Loureiro
• Fernando M. C. Costa Matos
• António M. M. Moreira
• Mário Alberto Pereira
• Lélio Almeida Ribeiro
• Manuel Silva Pereira

External links

• Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXth Olympiad Munich 1972 (1974). Official Report of the Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXth Olympiad Munich 1972, Volume 1: The organization (Retrieved on 7 November 2006).
• Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXth Olympiad Munich 1972 (1974). Official Report of the Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXth Olympiad Munich 1972, Volume 3: The competitions (Retrieved on 7 November 2006).

Notes and References

1. Web site: Portugal at the 1972 Munich Summer Games . https://web.archive.org/web/20200417093238/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/countries/POR/summer/1972/ . dead . 17 April 2020 . 31 January 2016 . SportsReference.