Comité Olímpico de Portugal

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Comité Olímpico de Portugal
Founded 1909
Place of foundation Lisbon
Homepage www.comiteolimpicoportugal.pt

The Comité Olímpico de Portugal (COP) is the National Olympic Committee in Portugal .

history

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) had been represented in Portugal by D. António de Lencastre since 1906 , but the COP was not founded until October 26, 1909 , and was recognized by the IOC that same year. Portugal was the 13th country that joined the Olympic idea with a NOK.

Jaime Mauperrin Santos became the first president. He was previously chairman of the Sociedade Promotora de Educação Física Nacional (German: National Society for the Promotion of Physical Education), from which the COP emerged.

The COP organized Portugal's official participation in the next Olympic Games, the 1912 Summer Olympic Games in Stockholm. The subsequent preparations for the 1916 Olympic Games in Berlin were canceled as a result of the outbreak of the First World War .

By law of August 14, 1919, the government of the young Republic of Portugal (since 1910) recognized the COP and granted it state subsidies.

Since its inception, the COP has organized Portugal's participation in all Olympic Games.

In 2004 the COP was one of the founding members of ACOLOP , the association of Portuguese-speaking Olympic committees. Since then, Portuguese athletes have taken part in all Jogos da Lusofonia , the games of the Community of Portuguese-Speaking Countries organized by ACOLOP . The athletes of the COP won medals at all games.

Members

In addition, a large number of non-Olympic sports associations (e.g. the chess association Federação Portuguesa de Xadrez , the hiking, camping and mountaineering association Federação de Campismo e Montanhismo de Portugal , or the Portuguese sports dance association) and other organizations are members of the COP, such as the Inatel , the Special Olympics Portugal, or the Society for Sports Medicine Sociedade Portuguesa de Medicina Desportiva , and much more

President

  • 1909–1912: Jaime Mauperrin Santos
  • suspended, acting head: José Pontes
  • 1919–1923: António Prestes Salgueiro
  • 1924–1956: José Pontes
  • 1957–1968: Francisco Nobre Guedes
  • 1969–1972: Alexandre Correia Leal
  • 1973–1976: Gaudêncio Costa
  • 1977–1980: Daniel Sales Grade
  • 1981-1989: Fernando Lima Bello
  • 1990-1992: José Vicente Moura
  • 1993-1996: Vasco Lynce
  • 1997–2012: José Vicente Moura
  • since 2013: José Manuel Constantino

See also

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