Portugal at the 2016 Summer Olympics explained

Noc:	POR
Nocname:	Olympic Committee of Portugal
Games:	Summer Olympics
Year:	2016
Website:
Location:	Rio de Janeiro
Competitors:	92
Sports:	16
Flagbearer:	João Rodrigues (opening)^[1] Telma Monteiro (closing)^[2]
Rank:	78
Gold:	0
Silver:	0
Bronze:	1
Appearances:	auto
App Begin Year:	1912

Portugal competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 5 to 21 August 2016. Portuguese athletes had appeared in every edition of the Summer Olympic Games since the nation's debut in 1912.

The Olympic Committee of Portugal fielded a team of 92 athletes, 62 men and 30 women, across 16 sports at the Games.^[3] It was the nation's second-largest ever delegation sent to the Olympics, falling short of the record for the most athletes (107) achieved in Atlanta 1996 by nearly 20 percent. Men's football was the only team-based sport in which Portugal had representatives at these Games, returning to the Olympic scene after being absent from the previous two editions.^[4] Portugal also marked its Olympic debut in golf (new to the 2016 Games), as well as its return to taekwondo after 8 years, and slalom canoeing and tennis after 16 years.

The Portuguese roster featured 31 returning Olympians, including three past medalists: triple jumper and Beijing 2008 champion Nelson Évora and sprint canoeing duo Fernando Pimenta and Emanuel Silva, who brought home the nation's only medal, a silver, at London 2012. Windsurfer and multiple-time European champion João Rodrigues, who was selected as the nation's flag bearer in the opening ceremony, set a historic milestone as the first Portuguese athlete to participate in his seventh and final Olympics.^{[1] [5]} Pistol shooter João Costa, the oldest of the team (aged 52), and Laser sailor Gustavo Lima joined the list of the nation's athletes who attended their fifth Games. Other notable competitors on the Portuguese roster included world-ranked judoka and four-time Olympian Telma Monteiro, road cycling pro Rui Costa, European Games taekwondo champion Rui Bragança, and sprinter Lorène Bazolo, who ran for her native Congo in London four years earlier.

Portugal left Rio de Janeiro with only a bronze medal won by Monteiro in the women's 57 kg, saving its pride from the humiliation of returning empty-handed for the first time since Barcelona 1992.^[6] Several Portuguese athletes advanced further to the finals of their respective sporting events, but came closest to the nation's medal haul, including Évora (sixth, men's triple jump), Pimenta (fifth, men's K-1 1000 m), Silva and his new partner João Ribeiro (fourth, men's K-2 1000 m), and João José Pereira, who finished fifth in the men's triathlon.^[7]

Competitors

| width=78% align=left valign=top |The following is the list of number of competitors participating in the Games. Note that reserves in fencing, field hockey, football, and handball are not counted as athletes:

width=180	Sport	width=55	Men	width=55	Women	width=55	Total
Athletics	8	16	24
Badminton	1	1	2
Canoeing	6	2	8
Cycling	6	0	6
Equestrian	0	1	1
Football	18	0	18
Golf	2	0	2
Gymnastics	1	2	3
Judo	4	2	6
Sailing	4	1	5
Shooting	1	0	1
Swimming	2	3	5
Table tennis	3	2	5
Taekwondo	1	0	1
Tennis	2	0	2
Triathlon	3	0	3
Total	62	30	92

Athletics

See main article: article, Athletics at the 2016 Summer Olympics and Athletics at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Qualification. Portuguese athletes achieved qualifying standards in several events (maximum of three athletes per event).^{[8] [9]} On May 31, 2016, the Portuguese Athletics Federation (FPA) named the first batch of track and road athletes, all competing in both marathon and race walking, to the Olympic roster, with João Vieira remarkably going to his fourth Games.^[10] The final roster of 25 athletes (9 men and 16 women) was officially announced on July 12, 2016.^[11] Eight days later, the Portuguese federation announced that Yazaldes Nascimento would be unable to participate in the men's 100 metres due to injury, which had already left him out of the delegation for the 2016 European Athletics Championships.^{[12] [13]}

Track & road events

Men

Athlete	Event	Final
		Result	Rank
align=left rowspan=2	João Vieira	20 km walk	1:23:03	31
50 km walk
Sérgio Vieira	20 km walk	1:27:39	53
Miguel Carvalho	align=left rowspan=2	50 km walk	4:08:16	36
Pedro Isidro	4:03:42	32
Ricardo Ribas	align=left rowspan=2	Marathon	2:38:29	134
Rui Pedro Silva	2:30:52	123

Women

Athlete	Event	Heat		Quarterfinal		Semifinal		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
align=left rowspan=2	Lorène Bazolo	100 m	11.43	4	Did not advance
200 m	23.01	4	Did not advance
Cátia Azevedo	400 m	52.38	4	Did not advance
Marta Pen	1500 m	4:18.53	12	Did not advance
Carla Salomé Rocha	10000 m	32:06.05	26
Vera Barbosa	400 m hurdles	57.28	6	Did not advance
Jéssica Augusto	align=left rowspan=3	Marathon
Ana Dulce Félix	2:30:39	16
align=left	Sara Moreira	Did not finish
Ana Cabecinha	align=left rowspan=3	20 km walk	1:29:23	6
Daniela Cardoso	1:36:13	37
Inês Henriques	1:31:28	12

Field events

Men

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Distance	Rank	Distance	Rank
Nelson Évora	Triple jump	16.99	4 Q	17.03	6
Tsanko Arnaudov	Shot put	18.88	29	Did not advance

Women

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Distance	Rank	Distance	Rank
Susana Costa	align=left rowspan=2	Triple jump	14.12	11 q	14.12	9
Patrícia Mamona	14.18	9 q	14.65 NR	6
Marta Onofre	align=left rowspan=2	Pole vault	4.30	=24	Did not advance
Maria Leonor Tavares	4.15	=29	Did not advance
Irina Rodrigues	Discus throw	Withdrew due to injury

Badminton

See main article: article, Badminton at the 2016 Summer Olympics and Badminton at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Qualification. Portugal has qualified two badminton players for each of the following events into the Olympic tournament. London 2012 Olympians Pedro Martins and Telma Santos picked up one of the spare athlete berths each from host nation Brazil and from the Tripartite Commission as the next highest-ranked eligible players in their respective singles events based on the BWF World Rankings as of 5 May 2016.^[14]

Athlete	Event	Group Stage				Elimination	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final /
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Pedro Martins	Men's singles	L (17–21, 18–21)	L (21–14, 22–24, 6–21)		3	Did not advance
Telma Santos	Women's singles	L (12–21, 7–21)	L (21–18, 10–21, 12–21)	L (16–21, 18–21)	4	Did not advance

Canoeing

See main article: article, Canoeing at the 2016 Summer Olympics and Canoeing at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Qualification.

Slalom

Portugal has qualified one boat in the men's slalom C-1 for the Games, as the International Canoe Federation accepted the nation's request to claim a spare berth freed by Great Britain. The slot was awarded to José Carvalho, who finished among the top 20 canoeists at the 2015 World Championships.^[15]

Sprint

Portuguese canoeists initially qualified four boats for the Games through the 2015 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships.^[16] Meanwhile, one additional boat was awarded in the women's K-1 200 m by virtue of a top-two national finish at the 2016 European Qualification Regatta in Duisburg, Germany.^[17]

Men

Athlete	Event	Heats		Semifinals		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Hélder Silva	C-1 200 m	40.578	3 Q	41.162	5 FB	40.388	13
Fernando Pimenta	K-1 1000 m	3:33.140	1 Q	3:33.420	2 FA	3:35.349	5
Emanuel Silva João Ribeiro	K-2 1000 m	3:26.284	4 Q	3:18.099	1 FA	3:12.889	4
David Fernandes Fernando Pimenta João Ribeiro Emanuel Silva	K-4 1000 m	3:01.498	4 Q	2:58.233	2 FA	3:07.482	6

Women

Athlete	Event	Heats		Semifinals		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Francisca Laia	K-1 200 m	41.368	2 Q	41.573	5 FB	42.695	16
Teresa Portela	K-1 500 m	1:56.439	3 Q	1:58.360	4 FB	1:58.058	11

Qualification Legend: FA = Qualify to final (medal); FB = Qualify to final B (non-medal)

Cycling

See main article: article, Cycling at the 2016 Summer Olympics and Cycling at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Qualification.

Road

Portuguese riders qualified for a maximum of four quota places in the men's Olympic road race by virtue of their top 15 final national ranking in the 2015 UCI World Tour.^[18] On 4 July 2016, the Portuguese Cycling Federation announced the selection of former Olympians André Cardoso, Rui Costa and Nelson Oliveira, and of 2016 national road race champion José Mendes, who would take part in his first Olympics.^[19]

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
André Cardoso	align=left rowspan=3	Men's road race	6:22:23	36
Rui Costa	6:12:34	10
José Mendes	6:30:05	53
align=left rowspan=2	Nelson Oliveira	Men's road race	Did not finish
Men's time trial	1:14:15.27	7

Mountain biking

Portuguese mountain bikers qualified for two men's quota places into the Olympic cross-country race, as a result of the nation's eleventh place in the UCI Olympic Ranking List of 25 May 2016.^{[20] [21]} On 9 June 2016, the Portuguese Cycling Federation announced it had selected Tiago Ferreira and London 2012 Olympian David Rosa as the nation's representatives in this event.^[22]

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Tiago Ferreira	Men's cross-country	(5 laps)	39
David Rosa	(2 laps)	44

Equestrian

See main article: article, Equestrian at the 2016 Summer Olympics and Equestrian at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Qualification. Portugal has entered one jumping rider into the Olympic equestrian competition by virtue of a top national finish from South Western Europe in the individual FEI Olympic Rankings.^[23]

Jumping

Football

See main article: article and Football at the 2016 Summer Olympics.

Men's tournament

See main article: article and Football at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament. Portugal qualified a team of 18 players for the Olympic men's football tournament by reaching the semifinals at the 2015 UEFA European Under-21 Championship in the Czech Republic.^[24]

Team roster

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Quarterfinal

Golf

See main article: article, Golf at the 2016 Summer Olympics and Golf at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Qualification. Portugal has entered two golfers into the Olympic tournament. Ricardo Gouveia (world no. 125) and José-Filipe Lima (world no. 392) qualified directly among the top 60 players for the men's event based on the IGF World Rankings as of July 11, 2016.^[25]

Athlete	Event	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Total
		Score	Score	Score	Score	Score	Par	Rank
Ricardo Gouveia	align=left rowspan=2	Men's	73	68	76	80	297	+13	59
José-Filipe Lima	70	70	77	71	288	+4	=48

Gymnastics

See main article: article, Gymnastics at the 2016 Summer Olympics and Gymnastics at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Qualification.

Artistic

Portugal has entered two artistic gymnasts into the Olympic competition. Gustavo Simões and Ana Filipa Martins claimed their Olympic spots respectively in the men's and women's apparatus and individual all-around events at the Olympic Test Event in Rio de Janeiro.^{[26] [27]} On 22 July, however, the Portuguese federation announced that Simões would fail its debut Olympic participation in Rio de Janeiro due to a foot injury in a preparation event.^[28]

Women

Trampoline

Portugal has entered two trampoline gymnasts into the Olympic competition. Diogo Abreu and two-time Olympian Ana Rente claimed their Olympic spots respectively in the men's and women's events at the Olympic Test Event in Rio de Janeiro.^[29]

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Score	Rank	Score	Rank
Diogo Abreu	Men's	55.855	16	Did not advance
Ana Rente	Women's	97.885	11	Did not advance

Judo

See main article: article, Judo at the 2016 Summer Olympics and Judo at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Qualification. Portugal has qualified a total of six judokas for each of the following weight classes at the Games. Five of them (three men and two women), with Telma Monteiro remarkably going to her fourth Olympics, were ranked among the top 22 eligible judokas for men and top 14 for women in the IJF World Ranking List of May 30, 2016, while Nuno Saraiva at men's lightweight (73 kg) earned a continental quota spot from the European region as the highest-ranked Portuguese judoka outside of direct qualifying position.^{[30] [31]}

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage	Final /
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Sergiu Oleinic	Men's −66 kg	W 001–000	L 000–100	Did not advance
Nuno Saraiva	Men's −73 kg	L 000–011	Did not advance
Célio Dias	Men's −90 kg		L 001–100	Did not advance
Jorge Fonseca	Men's −100 kg	W 100–000	L 001–010	Did not advance
Joana Ramos	Women's −52 kg		W 102–000	L 000–100	Did not advance
Telma Monteiro	Women's −57 kg			W 002–000	L 000–000		W 100–000	W 001–000

Sailing

See main article: article, Sailing at the 2016 Summer Olympics and Sailing at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Qualification. Portuguese sailors have qualified one boat in each of the following classes through the 2014 ISAF Sailing World Championships, the individual fleet Worlds, and European qualifying regattas.^{[32] [33]} On December 17, 2015, three Portuguese sailors had been named to the 2016 Olympic team, including seven-time Olympian João Rodrigues in men's windsurfing.^[34] Meanwhile, single-handed sailors Gustavo Lima (Laser), who confirmed his fifth Olympic appearance, and 2012 Olympian Sara Carmo (Laser Radial) had claimed their Olympic spots at the Princess Sofia Trophy Regatta to round out the selection of the sailing squad.^[35]

Athlete	Event	Race													Net points	Final rank
		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	M*
João Rodrigues	Men's RS:X	21	10	23	15	15	10	15	12	4	4	12	7	EL	148	11
Gustavo Lima	Men's Laser	15	15	20	26	15	8	11	28	38	33	EL	175	22
José Costa Jorge Lima	Men's 49er	4	4	18	6	16	21	11	19	4	9	19	12	EL	122	16
Sara Carmo	Women's Laser Radial	34	31	22	25	18	13	30	30	26	9	EL	235	27

M = Medal race; EL = Eliminated – did not advance into the medal race

Shooting

See main article: article, Shooting at the 2016 Summer Olympics and Shooting at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Qualification. Portugal has qualified one shooter to compete in the men's pistol events by virtue of his best finish at the 2015 ISSF World Cup series and other selection competitions, as long as he obtained a minimum qualifying score (MQS) by March 31, 2016.^{[36] [37]}

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank
align=left rowspan=2	João Costa	Men's 10 m air pistol	578	11	Did not advance
Men's 50 m pistol	554	11	Did not advance

Qualification Legend: Q = Qualify for the next round; q = Qualify for the bronze medal (shotgun)

Swimming

See main article: article, Swimming at the 2016 Summer Olympics and Swimming at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Qualification. Portuguese swimmers have so far achieved qualifying standards in the following events (up to a maximum of two swimmers in each event at the Olympic Qualifying Time (OQT), and potentially one at the Olympic Selection Time (OST)):^{[38] [39]}

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Diogo Carvalho	Men's 200 m individual medley	2:00.17	19	Did not advance
align=left rowspan=2	Alexis Santos	Men's 200 m individual medley	1:59.67	=12 Q	2:00.08	12	Did not advance
Men's 400 m individual medley	4:15.84 NR	14	Did not advance
Tamila Holub	Women's 800 m freestyle	8:45.36	24	Did not advance
align=left rowspan=2	Victoria Kaminskaya	Women's 200 m individual medley	2:16.78	35	Did not advance
Women's 400 m individual medley	4:46.03	28	Did not advance
Vânia Neves	Women's 10 km open water	2:01:39.3	24

Table tennis

See main article: article, Table tennis at the 2016 Summer Olympics and Table tennis at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Qualification. Portugal has entered three athletes into the table tennis competition at the Games. Two-time Olympians Tiago Apolónia and Marcos Freitas, along with Chinese-born Yu Fu, secured Olympic spots each in the men's and women's singles, respectively, by winning their group final matches at the European Qualification Tournament in Halmstad, Sweden.^[40] Meanwhile, Shao Jieni was automatically selected among the top 22 eligible players to join Yu in the women's singles based on the ITTF Olympic Rankings.^[41]

Remarkably going with Apolonia and Freitas to their third Olympics, João Monteiro was awarded the third spot to build the men's team for the Games by virtue of a top 10 national finish in the ITTF Olympic Rankings.^[42]

Athlete	Event	Preliminary	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final /
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Tiago Apolónia	align=left rowspan=2	Men's singles	L 1–4	Did not advance
Marcos Freitas	W 4–1	W 4–0	L 2–4	Did not advance
Tiago Apolónia Marcos Freitas João Monteiro	Men's team	L 1–3	Did not advance
Shao Jieni	align=left rowspan=2	Women's singles	L 0–4	Did not advance
Yu Fu	L 3–4	Did not advance

Taekwondo

See main article: article, Taekwondo at the 2016 Summer Olympics and Taekwondo at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Qualification. Portugal entered one athlete into the taekwondo competition for the first time at the Olympics since 2008. European Games champion Rui Bragança qualified automatically for the men's flyweight category (58 kg) by finishing in the top 6 WTF Olympic rankings.^[43]

Tennis

See main article: article, Tennis at the 2016 Summer Olympics and Tennis at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Qualification. Portugal has entered two tennis players into the Olympic tournament, signifying the nation's return to the sport for the first time since 2000. João Sousa (world no. 30) qualified directly for the men's singles event as one of the top 56 eligible players in the ATP World Rankings as of June 6, 2016, while Gastão Elias (world no. 88) secured an additional Olympic placeas a result of the withdrawal of players with higher ranking.^{[44] [45]} On the second day of the Games, the withdrawal of the German pair from the men's doubles event allowed Elias and Sousa to enter the tournament as alternates.^[46]

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final /
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Gastão Elias	align=left rowspan=2	Men's singles	W 7–6^(7–4), 7–6^(7–3)	L 3–6, 4–6	Did not advance
João Sousa	W 6–1, 7–5	L 3–6, 6–1, 3–6	Did not advance
Gastão Elias João Sousa	Men's doubles		W 6–4, 6–2	L 1–6, 4–6	Did not advance

Triathlon

See main article: article, Triathlon at the 2016 Summer Olympics and Triathlon at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Qualification. Portugal has qualified a total of three triathletes for the Olympics. Miguel Arraiolos, João José Pereira, and João Pedro Silva were ranked among the top 40 eligible triathletes in the men's event based on the ITU Olympic Qualification List as of May 15, 2016.^{[47] [48]}

Athlete	Event	Swim (1.5 km)	Trans 1	Bike (40 km)	Trans 2	Run (10 km)	Total Time	Rank
Miguel Arraiolos	align=left rowspan=3	Men's	18:44	0:50	59:04	0:35	34:57	1:53:35	44
João José Pereira	18:03	0:46	55:52	0:33	30:38	1:45:52	5
João Pedro Silva	18:08	0:49	56:22	0:39	35:35	1:51:33	35

See also

• Portugal at the 2016 Summer Paralympics

Notes and References

1. News: João Rodrigues é o Porta-Estandarte da Missão Rio 2016. João Rodrigues will be the flag bearer for Rio 2016. pt. Olympic Committee of Portugal. 15 June 2016. 16 June 2016.
2. News: Telma Monteiro vai ser a Porta-Estandarte na Cerimónia de Encerramento. Telma Monteiro will be the flagbearer in the closing ceremony. pt. Olympic Committee of Portugal. 20 August 2016. 20 August 2016.
3. News: Mário. Aleixo. Portugal já garantiu 92 atletas para o Rio2016. Portugal has already selected 92 athletes for Rio 2016. pt. Rádio e Televisão de Portugal. 12 July 2016. 10 January 2017.
4. News: Nick. Zaccardi. Four European nations qualify for 2016 Olympic men's soccer tournament. Rádio e Televisão de Portugal. 25 June 2015. 10 January 2017.
5. News: Rio 2016, more flag bearers for sailing than Beijing and London combined. International Sailing Federation. 5 August 2016. 12 September 2016.
6. News: Telma Monteiro conquista o bronze no Rio 2016. Telma Monteiro wins bronze in Rio 2016. pt. Olympic Committee of Portugal. 8 August 2016. 10 January 2017.
7. News: Portugal brings home one medal from Rio as athletes slam lack of support from government. Portugal Resident. 22 August 2016. 10 January 2017.
8. Web site: iaaf.org – Top Lists. IAAF. 18 April 2015.
9. Web site: IAAF Games of the XXX Olympiad – Rio 2016 Entry Standards. IAAF. 18 April 2015.
10. News: Pré-selecção para os Jogos Olímpicos: marcha e maratona. Pre-selection for the Olympic Games: walk and marathon. 31 May 2016. Federação Portuguesa de Atletismo. 31 May 2016. pt. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20160610163638/http://www.fpatletismo.pt/pt/pre-selecao-para-os-jogos-olimpicos-marcha-e-maratona. 10 June 2016. dmy-all.
11. News: Atletismo apresenta seleção para os Jogos. Athletics presents its Olympic team. 12 July 2016. Portuguese Athletics Federation. 12 July 2016. pt. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20160715043936/http://www.fpatletismo.pt/pt/atletismo-apresenta-selecao-para-os-jogos. 15 July 2016. dmy-all.
12. News: Yazaldes é baixa na equipa para o Rio de Janeiro. Yazaldes is a casualty in the team for Rio de Janeiro. 22 July 2016. Portuguese Athletics Federation. 20 July 2016. pt. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20160724034139/http://www.fpatletismo.pt/pt/yazaldes-nascimento-e-baixa-na-equipa-para-o-rio-de-janeiro. 24 July 2016. dmy-all.
13. News: Gustavo Simões e Yazaldes Nascimento falham Rio 2016 por lesão. Gustavo Simões and Yazaldes Nascimento miss Rio 2016 due to injury. 22 July 2016. Olympic Committee of Portugal. 22 July 2016. pt.
14. News: Dev. Sukumar. Provisional List of Olympic Qualifiers Published. Badminton World Federation. 5 May 2016. 5 May 2016. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20160508130917/http://bwfbadminton.com/2016/05/05/provisional-list-of-olympic-qualifiers-published/. 8 May 2016. dmy-all.
15. News: Canoísta José Carvalho repescado para os Jogos Olímpicos. Canoeist José Carvalho paddles his way to the Olympics. Observador.pt. 14 July 2016. 18 July 2016. pt.
16. News: Olympic Canoe Sprint Qualification spots confirmed. International Canoe Federation. 6 September 2015. 8 September 2015.
17. News: Euro Olympic quotas secured. International Canoe Federation. 19 May 2016. 20 May 2016.
18. News: UCI announces men's road Olympic quotas. Cyclingnews.com. 18 January 2016. 20 January 2016.
19. News: Equipa experiente em torno de Rui Costa nos Jogos Olímpicos. Experienced team around Rui Costa for the Olympic Games. 4 July 2016. Portuguese Cycling Federation. 4 July 2016. pt.
20. News: BTT com apuramento inédito de dois corredores para o Rio 2016. BTT with unprecedented qualification of two riders for Rio 2016. Olympic Committee of Portugal. 25 May 2016. 25 May 2016. pt.
21. Web site: Mountain Bike Rankings  - Men Elite  - UCI Olympic Qualification Ranking. Union Cycliste Internationale. 25 May 2016.
22. News: David Rosa e Tiago Ferreira convocados para os Jogos Olímpicos. David Rosa and Tiago Ferreira selected for the Olympic Games. 9 June 2016. Portuguese Cycling Federation. 9 June 2016. pt.
23. News: Six nations make Olympic and Paralympic débuts at Rio 2016 equestrian events. FEI. 24 March 2016. 26 March 2016.
24. News: European foursome bound for Brazil. https://web.archive.org/web/20150626135750/http://www.fifa.com/mensolympic/news/y=2015/m=6/news=european-foursome-bound-for-brazil-2652963.html?intcmp=fifacom_hp_module_news. dead. 26 June 2015. FIFA. 24 June 2015. 24 June 2015.
25. News: Olympic Rankings – Men. International Golf Federation. 11 July 2016. 12 July 2016. 24 August 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160824190021/http://www.igfgolf.org/olympic-games/qualification-system/ogr-men/. dead.
26. News: Gustavo Simões é o 60º atleta português apurado para o Rio 2016. Gustavo Simões is the 60th Portuguese athlete qualified for Rio 2016. 16 April 2016. Olympic Committee of Portugal. 16 April 2016. pt.
27. News: Filipa Martins apurada para os Jogos Olímpicos. Filipa Martins qualified for the Olympics. 18 April 2016. Olympic Committee of Portugal. 18 April 2016. pt.
28. News: Gustavo Simões  - JO 2016. 22 July 2016. Portuguese Gymnastics Federation. 22 July 2016. pt.
29. News: Ana Rente e Diogo Abreu apurados para o Rio 2016. Ana Rente and Diogo Abreu qualified for Rio 2016. 19 April 2016. Olympic Committee of Portugal. 19 April 2016. pt.
30. News: IJF Officially Announces Qualified Athletes for Rio 2016 Olympic Games. 23 June 2016. International Judo Federation. 24 June 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160804171231/http://www.intjudo.eu/News/cikk3913. 4 August 2016. dead. dmy-all.
31. News: Judo português com duas "repetentes" e três ou quatro estreantes. Portuguese judo will be represented by two "repeaters" and three or four rookies. 2 June 2016. Observador.pt. 31 May 2016. pt.
32. News: Rio 2016 Olympic Laser Spots Snapped Up At Santander 2014 ISAF Worlds . . 14 September 2014 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140914023558/http://www.sailing.org/news/38590.php . 14 September 2014 .
33. News: 49er, 49erFX, Finn And Nacra 17 Rio 2016 Olympic Spots Taken At Santander 2014 ISAF Worlds . . 21 September 2014 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140921155601/http://www.sailing.org/news/38633.php . 21 September 2014 .
34. News: Jorge Lima, José Costa e João Rodrigues confirmados nos Jogos Olímpicos Rio 2016. Jorge Lima, José Costa, and João Rodrigues are confirmed for the 2016 Rio Olympics. 19 December 2015. Olympic Committee of Portugal. 18 May 2015. pt.
35. News: Sara Carmo sobre para 56 os atletas apurados para o Rio 2016. Sara Carmos raises to 56 the number of atletas qualified for Rio 2016. 1 April 2016. Olympic Committee of Portugal. 1 April 2016. pt.
36. Web site: Quota Places by Nation and Number. 30 May 2016. www.issf-sports.org/. ISSF. 30 May 2016.
37. News: João Costa apura Portugal para o Rio 2016 no tiro. João Costa qualifies Portugal for Rio 2016 in shooting. 24 June 2015. Olympic Committee of Portugal. 18 May 2015. pt. Devido a este resultado, João Costa garantiu por inerência quota olímpica para Portugal na prova de Pistola Livre a 50 metros. (Due to this result, João Costa inherently assured an Olympic quota in the 50 metres air pistol event.).
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40. News: Ténis de mesa apura três atletas para o Rio 2016. Table tennis qualifies three for Rio 2016. Olympic Committee of Portugal. 14 April 2016. pt. 14 April 2016.
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45. News: João Sousa confirmado no Rio 2016. João Sousa is confirmed for Rio 2016. pt. Olympic Committee of Portugal. 6 June 2016. 8 June 2016.
46. News: Sousa e Elias vão participar no torneio de pares. Sousa and Elias will participate in the men's doubles. 7 August 2016. Olympic Committee of Portugal. 7 August 2016. pt.
47. News: Triatlo apura três e sobe para 70 o número de atletas portugueses no Rio 2016. Triathlon qualifies three and raises to 70 the number of Portuguese athletes in Rio 2016. 18 May 2016. Olympic Committee of Portugal. 18 May 2016. pt.
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