João José Pereira
João Pereira | |
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João Pereira at the Triathlon de Paris , 2011
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Personal information | |
Date of birth | 28th December 1987 (age 32) |
place of birth | Alhandra (Vila Franca de Xira) , Portugal |
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Since 2017 | Sport Lisboa e Benfica |
successes | |
2016 | 5th Olympic Games |
2017 | ETU European champion triathlon short distance |
2017 | ETU European champion triathlon sprint distance |
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active |
João José Sales Henriques de Carvalho Pereira (born December 28, 1987 in Alhandra ) is a Portuguese triathlete . He is European triathlon champion on the sprint and short distance (2017) and member of the national team. At the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, he finished fifth.
Career
João Pereira has been running triathlon since 2008. In the national ranking for 2009, Pereira was ranked fourth (U23), but he only took part in two of the four Portuguese competitions. In 2010, Pereira was number six in the elite ranking.
In May 2016 he finished sixth at the European Triathlon Championships. He won the European Championship on the Olympic short distance in Kitzbühel in June 2017.
2016 Summer Olympics
João Pereira qualified for a place at the 2016 Summer Olympics and on August 18, he competed with João Silva and Miguel Arraiolos in Rio de Janeiro for Spain, where he finished fifth as the best Portuguese.
Triathlon European champion sprint and short distance 2017
In May 2017 he was able to win the Challenge Lisboa in the middle distance . In June he became European champion in the Olympic short distance in Kitzbühel - just one second ahead of second and four seconds ahead of third. Only a week later he was also European champion on the sprint distance in Düsseldorf.
In June 2019, the then 31-year-old was runner-up in triathlon European championship on the Olympic short distance (1.5 km swimming, 40 km cycling and 10 km running) in the Netherlands behind Alistair Brownlee .
Awards
- 2017: Nomination as ETU Athlete of the Year
- 2018: ETU athlete of the year
Sporting successes
Date / year | rank | competition | venue | time | comment |
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June 1, 2019 | 2 | ETU Triathlon European Championships | Weert | 01:35:23 | European championship on the Olympic short distance |
Oct 13, 2018 | 3 | ITU Triathlon World Cup | Sarasota | 00:48:25 | |
Oct 6, 2018 | 3 | ETU Triathlon Clubs European Championships | Lisbon | 00:19:59 | with Katie Zaferes , João Pedro Silva and Vera Vilaca |
23rd July 2017 | 1 | ETU Triathlon Clubs European Championships | Banyoles | with "Sport Lisboa e Benfica" | |
June 24, 2017 | 1 | ETU Sprint Distance Triathlon European Championships | Dusseldorf | 00:57:33 | European champion on the sprint distance at the T3 triathlon |
18th June 2017 | 1 | ETU Triathlon European Championships | Kitzbühel | 01:45:31 | European champion on the Olympic short distance |
4th Sep 2016 | 10 | ITU World Championship Series 2016 | Edmonton | 00:52:28 | |
18 Aug 2016 | 5 | 2016 Summer Olympics | Rio de Janeiro | 01:45:52 | |
May 28, 2016 | 6th | ETU Triathlon European Championships | Lisbon | 01:50:39 | European championship on the Olympic short distance |
March 12 2016 | 3 | ITU Triathlon World Cup | Mooloolaba | 00:53:12 | |
Oct 17, 2015 | 1 | ITU Triathlon World Cup | Alanya | 01:45:10 | |
22 Aug 2015 | 2 | ITU Triathlon World Championship Series 2015 | Stockholm | 01:50:18 | |
June 28, 2014 | 2 | ITU Triathlon World Championship Series 2014 | Chicago | 01:47:29 | |
May 31, 2014 | 3 | ITU Triathlon World Championship Series 2014 | London | 00:49:49 | Third on the sprint distance |
June 24, 2011 | 6th | ETU Triathlon European Championships | Pontevedra | 01:50:39 | |
28 Aug 2010 | 20th | ETU Triathlon European Championship U23 | Vila Nova de Gaia (Porto) | 01:57:17 | |
May 8, 2010 | 34 | ITU Triathlon World Championship Series 2010 | Seoul | 01:54:44 | |
June 20, 2009 | 9 | ETU Triathlon European Championship U23 | Tarzo Revine | 01:52:49 | |
6 Sep 2008 | 8th | ETU Triathlon European Championship U23 | Pulpí | 01:59:21 | U23 European Championship |
Aug 30, 2007 | 17th | ITU Triathlon World Championship U23 | Hamburg | 01:51:35 | Triathlon World Championship on the Olympic distance in the U23 class (1.5 km swimming, 40 km cycling and 10 km running) |
June 3, 2007 | 44 | ETU Triathlon European Championships | Copenhagen | 01:56:23 | |
June 23, 2006 | 48 | ETU Triathlon European Championship Junior Men | Autun | 01:05:05 |
Date / year | rank | competition | venue | time | comment |
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May 7, 2017 | 1 | Challenge Lisboa | Lisbon | 03:41:23 |
(DNF - Did Not Finish)
Web links
- Portuguese Triathlon Federation (Portuguese)
- Profile and results of João José Pereira in the ITU database at Triathlon.org , accessed on February 21, 2020 (English).
Individual evidence
- ↑ See archived copy ( Memento of the original from June 5, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved January 15, 2010.
- ↑ See archived copy ( Memento of the original from June 5, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved January 15, 2010.
- ↑ See archived copy ( memento of the original from March 31, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved February 6, 2011.
- ↑ Austria nominated twice at ETU Awards (December 22, 2017)
- ^ Frodeno Sprints to Victory in Seoul
- ↑ http://huubdesign.com/blogs/news/lucy-charles-crushes-challenge-lisboa (link not available)
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Pereira, João José |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Carvalho Pereira, João José Sales Henriques de (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Portuguese triathlete |
DATE OF BIRTH | December 28, 1987 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Alhandra (Vila Franca de Xira) |