Sporting CP (athletics) explained

Sporting CP
Fullname:	Sporting Clube de Portugal
Short Name:	Sporting
Ground:	Complexo Alvalade XXI,^[1]
Location:	Lisbon
Leader Title:	Manager
Leader Name:	Carlos Lopes
League(S):	Portuguese Men's Athletics League Portuguese Women's Athletics League
Colors:	Green / White

Sporting CP's athletics department is, along with football's, a department that has been in continuous operation at Sporting Clube de Portugal since the foundation of the sports club in 1906.^{[2] [3]}

Having been the most represented club in the Olympic Games, this section of the sports club, headed many decades by athletics coach Mário Moniz Pereira (1921 – 2016), is one of the most decorated Portuguese athletics teams and is responsible for much of the titles won by the sports club throughout its history. Sporting Portugal's athletics department long-distance runner Carlos Lopes won the marathon at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles for Portugal, becoming Portugal's first Olympic gold medalist ever.^[4] In the 1976 Summer Olympics, he had already won the first Olympic silver medal in the history of Portuguese sports, competing in the men's 10,000 metres.^[5]

The annual Sporting running race, established in 2011, is organized by the club^{[6] [7] [8]} as well as the international athletics meeting Meeting de Atletismo Professor Moniz Pereira.^[9]

Honours (Men's)

Domestic competitions

• Portuguese Outdoor Men's Athletics Championship

• Winners (48): 1941, 1943, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1950, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1981, 1985, 1987, 1988, 1995, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010
• Portuguese Indoor Men's Athletics Championship

• Winners (17): 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2017
• Portuguese Cross Country Championship:

• Winners (49): 1912, 1928, 1930, 1931, 1935, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1952, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1993, 1995, 1997, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021
• Portuguese Cross Country mid-race Championship:

• Winners (8): 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012
• Portuguese Men's Athletics Cup

• Winners (4): 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000

International competitions

• European Champion Clubs Cup

• Winners (1): 2000

• Runners-up (3): 2007, 2009, 2010

Copa Iberica

• Winners (1): 2021
• European Champion Clubs Cup Cross Country
  • Winners (15): 1977, 1979, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 2018

Honours (Women's)

Domestic competitions

• Portuguese Outdoor Women's Athletics Championship

• Winners (49): 1945, 1946, 1947, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1987, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018
• Portuguese Indoor Women's Athletics Championship

• Winners (23): 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018
• Portuguese Cross Country Championship:

• Winners (8): 1972, 1973, 1974, 2014, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021
• Portuguese Cross Country mid-race Championship:

• Winners (7): 2000, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017
• Portuguese Women's Athletics Cup

• Winners (5): 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000

International competitions

• European Champion Clubs Cup

• Winners (2): 2016, 2018
• European Champion Clubs Cup Cross Country
  • Winners (2): 2018, 2019

Technical staff

^[10]

Name	Nat.	Job
Carlos Lopes		Manager
Abreu Matos		Coordinator
Anabela Leite		Coach and Youth Academy Director
Nuno Alpiarça		Coach
Armando Aldegalega		Coach
Prof. Bernardo Manuel		Coach
José Fonseca		Coach
Luís Herédio Costa		Coach

Notable past athletes

• António Stromp
• Salazar Carreira
• Mário Moniz Pereira
• Dália da Cunha-Sammer
• Álvaro Dias
• Manuel Faria
• Manuel de Oliveira
• Lídia Faria
• Armando Aldegalega
• Carlos Lopes
• Fernando Mamede
• Aniceto Simões
• José Carvalho
• Hélder de Jesus
• Domingos Castro
• Dionísio Castro
• Ezequiel Canário
• Manuela Machado
• Carla Sacramento
• Rui Silva
• Carlos Calado
• Paulo Guerra
• Francis Obikwelu
• Naíde Gomes
• Arnaldo Abrantes (father)
• Arnaldo Abrantes (son)
• Carlos Cabral
• Lucrécia Jardim
• Rafael Marques

References

https://www.sporting.pt/pt/clube/historia/palmares Sporting CP Official Website

Notes and References

1. Web site: Complexo Alvalade XXI . wikimapia.org .
2. Web site: Resumo da História do Sporting . 2024-02-11 . Diário de Notícias . en.
3. Web site: 2015-05-11 . Atletismo . 2024-02-11 . www.sporting.pt . pt-pt.
4. Web site: 2012-07-21 . 100 Olympic Tidbits: Portugal's First Gold Medalist . 2023-08-15 . Yahoo News . en-SG.
5. Web site: 2016-07-26 . Visão Há 40 anos: a medalha olímpica que mudou Portugal . 2023-10-31 . Visão . pt-PT.
6. Web site: Corrida Sporting: Jacinto Gaspar e Verónica José vencem em Alvalade . 2023-09-04 . www.record.pt . pt-PT.
7. Web site: Vitórias leoninas na Corrida do Sporting . Atleta-Digital . 14 Oct 2017 . 7 July 2017 . Portuguese.
8. Web site: Consulting . HMS Sports . Corrida Sporting 15 de Outubro, 2023 . 2023-09-04 . Corrida Sporting . pt.
9. Web site: Pombal acolherá Meeting de Atletismo Professor Moniz Pereira até 2025 . 2024-01-31 . Jornal de Leiria . pt.
10. Web site: Team Technical Staff . Sporting.pt . 2010-08-09.