2008 Summer Olympics / Participant (Portugal)

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Portugal took part in the 2008 Beijing Olympics with a delegation of 129 people, including 78 athletes. For the Portuguese team, it was the 22nd participation in a row sincePortuguese athletes first competed in the Olympic Games in 1912 . The flag bearer at the opening ceremony was the athlete Nelson Évora .

The team of the Comité Olímpico de Portugal won two medals in Beijing: Nelson Évora won gold in the triple jump, Vanessa Fernandes came second in the triathlon.

badminton

Ana Moura and Marco Vasconcelos

Archery

• Men
  • Nuno Pombo (individual)

fencing

Débora Nogueira and Joaquim Videira

Judo

Ana Hormigo , Telma Monteiro , Pedro Dias , João Pina and João Neto

canoe

Teresa Portela , Helena Rodrigues , Joana Sousa and Emanuel Silva

swim

Tiago Venâncio , Diogo Carvalho , Fernando Costa , Diana Gomes , Carlos Almeida , Sara Oliveira , Pedro Oliveira , Simão Morgado , Daniela Inácio , Arseniy Lavrentyev

athletics

Men Francis Obikwelu Arnaldo Abrantes Paulo Gomes Hélder Ornelas Edivaldo Monteiro Rui Pedro Silva Nélson Évora (Gold ) Marco Fortes João Vieira Sérgio Vieira Antonio Pereira Augusto Cardoso

Women Jéssica Augusto Clarisse Cruz Sara Moreira Ana Dias Inês Monteiro Leonor Carneiro Marisa Barros Elisabete Ansel Sandra Tavares Naide Gomes Vânia Silva Sílvia Cruz Ana Cabecinha Inês Henriques Maribel Gonçalves Susana Feitor Vera Santos

Cycling

André Cardoso and Nuno Ribeiro

horse riding

Carlos Pinto , Daniel Pinto and Miguel Ralão Duarte

rowing

Nuno Mendes and Pedro Fraga

shoot

João Costa

sailing

Afonso Domingos , Bernardo Santos , Álvaro Marinho , Miguel Nunes , Jorge Lima , Francisco Andrade , Gustavo Lima and João Rodrigues

Taekwondo

Pedro Póvoa

Table tennis

João Pedro Monteiro , Marcos Freitas and Tiago Apolónia

trampoline

Ana Pension and Diogo Ganchinho

Triathlon

Vanessa Fernandes (silver ), Bruno Pais and Duarte Marques