Portugal at the 1984 Summer Olympics explained

Noc:	POR
Nocname:	Olympic Committee of Portugal
Games:	Summer Olympics
Year:	1984
Website:
Location:	Los Angeles
Competitors:	38 (29 men and 9 women)
Sports:	11
Flagbearer:	António Roquete (Judo)
Rank:	23
Gold:	1
Silver:	0
Bronze:	2
Officials:	22
Appearances:	auto
App Begin Year:	1912

Portugal competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, United States.

A delegation of thirty eight competitors participated in eleven sports,^[1] bringing home a total of three medals – a feat only repeated 20 years later, in Athens – including Portugal's first ever Olympic gold medal, through Carlos Lopes in the marathon. Rosa Mota, future marathon olympic champion, was the bronze medalist of this event, who appeared for the first time in the Olympics.

Portugal made its debut in the Olympic archery as well as in the diving, with Joana Figueiredo as the first Portuguese Olympic diver. Female competitors were also present at the first rhythmic gymnastics events in an Olympiad.

Medalists

See main article: 1984 Summer Olympics medal table.

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
				12 August
				5 August
				11 August

Archery

See main article: article and Archery at the 1984 Summer Olympics. Men's Competition:

• Rui Santos — 2324 pts (→ 51st)

Distance	90m	70m	50m	30m	Total
Round 1	248	287	304	334	1173
Round 2	240	290	291	330	1151
Total	488	577	595	664	2324

Athletics

See main article: article and Athletics at the 1984 Summer Olympics.

Men's Events100m:

• Luís Barroso

• Round 1 (heat 8) — 10.76 (→ 4th, did not advance)

200m:

• Luís Barroso

• Round 1 (heat 7) — 22.03 (→ 6th, did not advance)

5,000m:

• Ezequiel Canário

• Round 1 (heat 1) — 13:43.28 (→ 1st)

• Semi-final (heat 2) — 13:32.64 (→ 9th, advanced as 3rd fastest loser)

• Final — 13:26.50 (→ 9th)
• João Campos

• Round 1 (heat 3) — 13:46.27 (→ 5th)

• Semi-final (heat 2) — 13:34.46 (→ 10th, did not advance)
• António Leitão

• Round 1 (heat 4) — 13:51.33 (→ 1st)

• Semi-final (heat 1) — 13:39.76 (→ 2nd)

• Final — 13:09.20 (→ Bronze Medal)

10,000m:

• Fernando Mamede

• Round 1 (heat 1) — 28:21.87 (→ 1st)

• Final — did not finish

Marathon:

• Carlos Lopes — 2:09:21 OR (→ Gold Medal)
• Cidálio Caetano — did not finish
• Delfim Moreira — did not finish

20 km Walk:

• José Pinto — 1:30:57 (→ 25th)

50 km Walk:

• José Pinto — 4:04:42 (→ 8th)

Women's Events800m:

• Maria Machado

• Round 1 (heat 4) — 2:05.74 (→ 5th, did not advance)

3000m:

• Aurora Cunha

• Round 1 (heat 1) — 8:46.38 (→ 4th, advanced as 2nd fastest loser)

• Final — 8:46.37 (→ 6th)
• Maria Machado

• Round 1 (heat 2) — 9:01.77 (→ 4th, did not advance)
• Rosa Mota

• Round 1 (heat 3) — did not finish

Marathon:

• Conceição Ferreira — 2:50:58 (→ 39th)
• Rita Borralho — 2:50:58 (→ 38th)
• Rosa Mota — 2:26:57 (→ Bronze Medal)

Diving

See main article: article and Diving at the 1984 Summer Olympics. Women's 3m Springboard:

Preliminary — 374,07 pts (→ 22nd, did not advance)

Dive	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total
Coef.	1.5	1.9	2.0	1.7	2.4	2.4	2.8	2.8	2.1	2.5
Pts	32,40	35,34	40,80	35,15	43,92	46,80	24,36	27,72	41,58	48,00	374,07

Fencing

See main article: article and Fencing at the 1984 Summer Olympics. One fencer represented Portugal in 1984

Men's sabre

• João Marquilhas — 31st

• Round 1 (Pool C) — 5 matches, 0 victories (→ 6th, did not advance)

1. Jorg Stratmann (FRG) (→ lost 5:4)

1. John Zarno (GBR) (→ lost 5:3)

1. Michael Lofton (USA) (→ lost 5:4)

1. Ruiji Wang (CHN) (→ lost 5:2)

1. Jean François Lamour (FRA) (→ lost 5:3)

Gymnastics

See main article: article and Rhythmic gymnastics at the 1984 Summer Olympics.

Individual All-Round Competition:

• Margarida Carmo — 54,575 pts (→ 18th)

Hoop	Ball	Clubs	Ribbon	Results	Prelim.
9,15	9,15	9,15	9,00	36,45	18,125
Total (results + prelim.)				54,575

• Maria João Falcão — 35,90 pts (→ 22nd)

Hoop	Ball	Clubs	Ribbon	Results
9,05	9,00	9,20	8,65	35,90
Total				35,90

Judo

See main article: article and Judo at the 1984 Summer Olympics.

Men's Extra Lightweight (–60 kg):

• João Neves

Pool B

• Round 1 — Shinji Hosokawa (JPN) (→ lost by ippon)

• Repêchage — Luís Shinoara (BRA) (→ lost by default, did not advance)

Men's Half Lightweight (–65 kg):

• Rui Rosa

Pool A

• Round 1 — Bye

• Round 2 — Stephen Gawthorpe (GBR) (→ lost by ippon, did not advance)

Men's Lightweight (–71 kg):

• Hugo d'Assunção

Pool B

• Round 1 — Federico Vixcarra (MEX) (→ lost by waza-ari, did not advance)

Men's Half Middleweight (–76 kg):

• António Roquete Andrade

Pool A

• Round 1 — Javier Condor (CRC) (→ won by ippon)

• Round 2 — Abdoulaye Diallo (GUI) (→ won by ippon)

• Round 3 — Suheyl Yesilnur (TUR) (→ lost by koka, did not advance)

Modern pentathlon

See main article: article and Modern pentathlon at the 1984 Summer Olympics.

Men's Individual Competition:

• Luís Monteiro — 4332 pts (→ 43rd)

• Manuel Barroso — 4085 pts (→ 49th)

• Roberto Durão — 4321 pts (→ 44th)

Men's Team Competition:

• Luís Monteiro, Manuel Barroso and Roberto Durão — 12738 pts (→ 16th)

Sailing

See main article: article and Sailing at the 1984 Summer Olympics.

Star:

• António Correia and Henrique Anjos — 128 pts (→ 17th)

Race	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	Total	Net
Place	13th	19th	15th	18th	14th	17th	16th
Pts	19	25	21	24	20	23	22	153	128

Windglider:

• José Monteiro — 152 pts (→ 22nd)

Race	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	Total	Net
Place	18th	23rd	25th	26th	17th	23rd	13th
Pts	24	29	31	32	23	29	19	184	152

Shooting

See main article: article and Shooting at the 1984 Summer Olympics.

Men's 25m Rapid Fire Pistol:

• Francisco Neto — 586 hits (→ 20th)

Time (secs)	Stage 1				Stage 2				Total
	1	2	1+2	Sum (1+2)	1	2	1+2	Sum (1+2)
8	49	49	98	294	49	49	98	292	586
6	50	50	100		49	49	98
4	47	49	96		47	49	96

• José Pena — 571 hits (→ 42nd)

Time (secs)	Stage 1				Stage 2				Total
	1	2	1+2	Sum (1+2)	1	2	1+2	Sum (1+2)
8	50	49	99	287	50	49	99	284	571
6	49	49	98		47	48	95
4	46	44	90		46	44	90

Men's 50m Pistol:

• José Pena — 533 hits (→ 39th)

Men's Trap:

• José Faria — 179 hits (→ 28th)

Women's 25m Pistol:

• Maria Chitas — 572 hits (→ 15th)

Swimming

See main article: article and Swimming at the 1984 Summer Olympics.

Men's 100m Breaststroke:

• Alexandre Yokochi

• Heats (heat 4) — 1:07.80 (→ 5th, did not advance)

Men's 200m Breaststroke:

• Alexandre Yokochi

• Heats (heat 2) — 2:19.76 (→ 2nd)

• Final A — 2:20.69 (→ 7th)

Men's 100m Butterfly:

• João Santos

• Heats (heat 4) — 58.17 (→ 6th, did not advance)

Men's 200m Butterfly:

• João Santos

• Heats (heat 5) — 2:04.72 (→ 5th, did not advance)

Weightlifting

See main article: article and Weightlifting at the 1984 Summer Olympics.

Men's Flyweight (–52 kg):

Group B — 0,0 kg (→ no classification)

Event	Attempt			Result
	1	2	3
Snatch	82,5	87,5	87,5	82,5
Clean & Jerk	115,0	115,0	115,0	0,0
Total				0,0

Men's Middleweight (–75 kg):

• Jorge Soares

Group B — withdraw

Men's Middle Heavyweight (–90 kg):

• Francisco Coelho

Group B — 340,0 kg (→ 13th)

Event	Attempt			Result
	1	2	3
Snatch	150,0	150,0	160,0	160,0
Clean & Jerk	190,0	190,0	195,0	190,0
Total				340,0

Officials

• José Vicente de Moura (chief of mission)

Notes

• Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee (1985). Official Report of the Games of the XXIII Olympiad Los Angeles, 1984 - Volume 1: Organization and planning (Retrieved on November 9, 2006)
• Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee (1985). Official Report of the Games of the XXIII Olympiad Los Angeles, 1984 - Volume 2: Competition summary and results (Retrieved on November 9–10, 2006)
• International Olympic Committee – Olympic medal winners database

Notes and References

1. Web site: Portugal at the 1984 Summer Games . https://web.archive.org/web/20200417043101/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/countries/POR/summer/1984/ . dead . 2020-04-17 . 2011-05-12 . sports-reference.com.