Summer Paralympics 2008 / Participant (Portugal)

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Portugal took the 52 athletes 2008 Summer Paralympics in China's Beijing in part.

The flag bearer at the opening ceremony was the rower Filomena Franco , the most successful athlete of the boccia team Joao Paulo Fernandes with a gold and a silver medal.

Participants by sport

Boccia

Women

Men

Emilio Conceicao
Armando Costa *
Joao Paulo Fernandes , 1 × (Mixed Individual, Class BC1) *
Fernando Ferreira *
Luis Ferreira
Antonio Marques , 1 × (Mixed Individual, Class BC1) *
Paulo Morais
Luis Pacheco
Mario Peixoto *
Fernando Pereira *
Bruno Valentim *

| * Team competitions

Mixed team class BC1-2 (silver )	Mixed pair class BC3 (bronze )	Mixed pair class BC4 (silver )
Joao Paulo Fernandes Fernando Ferreira Cristina Goncalves Antonio Marques	Armando Costa Mario Peixoto Eunice Raimundo	Fernando Pereira Bruno Valentim

athletics

Women

Men

Nuno Alpiarca
Nuno Alves
Firmino Baptista
João Campos
Antonio Catarino
Luis Costa
Carlos Ferreira
Luis Goncalves , 1 × (400 meters, class T12)
Amilcar Leal
Carlos Lopes
Gabriel Macchi
José Monteiro
Martim Nunes
Jorge Pina
Antonio Pinheiro
Gabriel Potra
Paulo Ramos
Vitor Rego
Henrique Santos
Alexandrino Silva
Miguel Silva
Ricardo Vale
David Verissimo

Cycling

Men

Augusto Pereira

horse riding

Women

Sara Duarte

rowing

Women

Filomena Franco

swim

Women

Men

David Grachat
Nelson Lopes
Joao Martins , 1 × (50 meters back, class S1)

sailing

Women

Luisa Silvano

Men

Bento Amaral

Individual evidence

↑ Summer Paralympic Participant List ( Memento from March 16, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Query at paralympic.org (as of September 28, 2008)
↑ Paralympic.org, September 28, 2008, list of standard bearers ( memento of March 26, 2009 in the Internet Archive )