The Federação de Triatlo de Portugal (FTP port. For: Triathlon Federation of Portugal) is the governing body for triathlon (port .: Triatlo) in Portugal . The FTP is based in the municipality of Caxias , in the Oeiras district near Lisbon .
After the modern triathlon was reinvented in the USA in the mid-1970s, the sport found its way to Europe in the early 1980s. In 1981 the first official competitions on the continent took place in the Netherlands . In 1984 triathlon competitions took place in Portugal for the first time, in the seaside resort of Peniche . In the same year the European triathlon umbrella organization European Triathlon Union was founded .
With the Associação Portuguesa de Triatlo (APT, German: Portuguese Triathlon Association), the first triathlon association was established in Portugal in 1987. In 1989 the International Triathlon Union was founded in Avignon , and in the same year the ATP was transferred to the newly founded Federação de Triatlo de Portugal (FTP) as a direct successor.
With the Delegados Regionais , the FTP maintains a regional association structure, which is, however, only being set up. Due to the now financially limited scope of the association as a result of the euro crisis and the various public austerity measures, the plans have so far only been partially implemented. So far there is a regional sub-organization, the Delegação Regional Norte for Northern Portugal. The planned delegations Delegação Regional Centro (Central Portugal) and Delegação Regional Sul (South Portugal) have so far been temporarily supervised by the FTP, as has the Autonomous Region of Azores , where there has not yet been any regional triathlon structure. The delegation of the Autonomous Region of Madeira is led by the local triathlon association Associação Regional da Madeira with the support of FTP.
organs
The president is Carlos Henriques Feijão . In addition to the Presidium (Portuguese: Direcção ) and the General Assembly ( Mesa Assembleia-Geral ), the FTP has four other organs:
Conselho de Disciplina (German: Disciplinary Council)
Conselho de Justiça (German: Judicial Council)
Conselho Fiscal (German: Supervisory Board or Control Council)
Conselho de Arbitragem (German: rule committee)
activities
The FTP organizes a variety of competitions across the country, in the areas of triathlon, duathlon, aquabike, aquathlon, etc. a. It also organizes international championships. a. ETU short distance European championships ( Cascais 1989, Funchal 1999 and Lisbon 2008), a U23 European championship ( Vila Nova de Gaia 2010), and duathlon European championships ( Mafra 1996 and 2001). An important event of the FTP is the Triatlo Internacional de Quarteira , the international triathlon competition of Quarteira . The Triatlo Internacional de Lisboa (Lisbon) and the Triatlo Internacional de Aveiro ( Aveiro ) should also be mentioned.
The national competitions organized by the FTP include in particular:
Campeonatos Nacionais Individuais , the national championships for individual athletes
Campeonato Nacional por Clubes , the national championship of clubs
Taça de Portugal PORterra , the national cup in cross triathlon
Further training, advertising measures (e.g. at schools), and both popular and competitive sports promotion are among the various tasks of the FTP. It maintains two performance centers (Port .: Centro de Alto Rendimento , CAR), the CAR Montemor-o-Velho and the CAR Jamor ( Oeiras ), and it organizes and supervises the national teams of Portugal in the various triathlon disciplines.
↑ Accountability and activity plan of the association (under A Federação / Planos Actividade / PDF-Abruf Plano de Actividades e Orçamento 2013 ), accessed on September 20, 2013.
