João Vieira (athlete)

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João Vieira (2009)

Full name João Paulo Garcia Vieira
nation PortugalPortugal Portugal
birthday 20th February 1976 (age 44)
place of birth Portimão ,  Portugal
Career
discipline 20 km walking , 50 km walking
Best performance 1:20:09 h (20 km walking),
3:45:17 h (50 km walking)
status active
Medal table
World championships 0 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
European championships 2 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
IAAF logo World championships
silver Doha 2019 50 km of walking
EAA logo European championships
bronze 2006 Gothenburg 20 km walking
silver 2010 Barcelona 20 km walking
last change: September 28, 2019

João Paulo Garcia Vieira (born February 20, 1976 in Portimão ) is a Portuguese walker .

At the 2004 Olympic Games , João Vieira finished tenth in the 20 km walk , in Beijing in 2008 he finished 32nd and in 2012 in London he finished eleventh.

At the European Athletics Championships in Budapest in 1998 he finished 20th, in 2002 in Munich he was twelfth and in 2006 in Gothenburg he won the bronze medal with a national record of 1:20:09 h. João Vieira is next to the walker Susana Feitor the only walker in Portugal to win a medal at international championships.

After Vieira had reached tenth place at the 2009 World Athletics Championships in Berlin, he was able to improve his performance at the 2010 European Championships in Barcelona and won the silver medal after the Russian Stanislaw Jemeljanow was convicted for doping .

He finished fourth at the 2013 World Championships in Moscow.

At the 2019 World Championships in Doha , he won the silver medal in the 50 km discipline, making him the oldest medalist in World Cup history.

Over 20 km, Vieira was Portuguese champion thirteen times ( 1996, 1999–2007, 2009, 2011 and 2019), over 50 km three times (2004, 2008 and 2019).

João's twin brother Sérgio Vieira is also an internationally active walker.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Report of July 31, 2014 ( Memento of August 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) from Südtirol Online . Retrieved August 13, 2014.
  2. ↑ 50 km walking in the "oven": Dohmann strong seventh. In: sportschau.de. September 29, 2019, accessed November 1, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Federação Portuguesa de Atletismo: Campeões de Portugal ( Memento from December 19, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Vieira, João
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Garcia Vieira, João Paulo (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Portuguese walker
DATE OF BIRTH February 20, 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Portimão