Sports in East Timor
The sport in East Timor is suffering especially on a permanent shortage of money. Athletes sometimes lack the simplest sports equipment to practice their discipline. In 2011, East Timorese athletes celebrated international success for the first time at the Southeast Asian Games.
sports
The most popular sport in East Timor is soccer . Furthermore, East Timorese athletes are regularly active in marathons and boxing. Many young people practice martial arts, of which there is also a traditional form in East Timor. The tradition of cockfighting , which also involves betting for money, is widespread .
basketball
The Federação Nacional de Basquetebol de Timor-Leste (FNBTL) has represented East Timor in FIBA since 2016 .
Soccer
The U23 team was the first East Timorese national football team to win an international match against the Brunei selection 2-1 on November 5, 2011 . The East Timorese national football team has not been successful in international matches for a long time. It was not until 2012 that the first victories against Cambodia and Laos at the 2012 Southeast Asian Cup were achieved . East Timor has been a member of FIFA since September 2005 . The national league is the Liga Futebol Timor-Leste (successor to the Liga Futebol Amadora ). The women's league is the league Futebol Feto Timor-Leste .
From April 29 to May 2, 2010 the Timor Sea Cup took place in Dili , in which teams from Dili, Kupang ( Indonesia ) and Darwin ( Australia ) participated.
In 2018, the men's U-21 team won the ASEAN youth football's Hassanal Bolkiah Trophy (HBT).
Handball
The Federsaun Handball Timor-Leste (FHTL, Portuguese Federação de Andebol de Timor-Leste ) became a member of the International Handball Federation (IHF) in 2017 .
Martial arts
Some East Timorese youth gangs act as martial arts clubs. A study from 2006 indicates the number of members for the 15 to 20 large martial arts groups alone as 20,000, an estimated 90,000 more are said to be unregistered members. That would mean that 70% of young Timorese men practice martial arts. Due to the high level of violence between the youth gangs, a law was passed in 2008 that heavily regulates the practice of martial arts. The national martial arts association is called the Association for Martial Arts Timor-Leste (FESTIL).
Thomas Americo was the first East Timorese (officially the first Indonesian) to fight for the belt of a world boxing champion in 1981, but lost the fight. He had previously won the Oriental and Pacific Boxing Federation (OPBF) championship in 1980 .
marathon
In addition to boxing and weightlifting, the marathon was the discipline in which East Timor, still as an independent , took part in the Olympic Games with its own athletes. On 20 June 2010 took the Dili Marathon an international competition run in East Timor for the first time instead of the the men of Kenyans Philemon Rotich among women who won, Australian Lucie Hardiman . East Timorese athletes also took top positions. In 2011 an East Timorese woman won the women's Dili marathon.
horse race
Horse races are held annually in Tasitolu .
To go biking
The Tour de Timor takes place annually and is considered to be one of the toughest mountain bike races in the world. The first race ran from August 24th to 28th, 2009, on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the independence referendum in 1999 and ran over 450 kilometers. Almost 300 cyclists from 15 countries competed, including 25 from East Timor and two Germans . In 2010 there were 340 drivers from 16 nations.
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The Federação Natação de Timor-Leste ( Federação Natação de Timor-Leste in Portuguese ) is the national swimming federation of East Timor. She sent the three athletes Imelda Felicyta Ximenes Belo , Domingos Remedio da Silva and José João Viegas da Silva to the 2019 World Swimming Championships .
tennis
Kerry Galhos, born in 1995, was considered a tennis hope from East Timor in 2016. She received a scholarship to the University of Texas to play on the tennis team.
Winter sports
Because of the climatic location of East Timor near the equator , winter sports are not practiced there. In 2012, however, the Federação de Ski de Timor-Leste was founded in France . One member, the Timor-French Yohan Goutt Goncalves , started as the first representative of East Timor at the Olympic Winter Games in 2014. In 2017, the first open, national ski championships of East Timor took place on Ravna planina in Pale , Bosnia , in Santa Caterina Valfurva , Italy , the second followed in 2018 and the third followed in 2019 .
International competitions
Olympic Games and Paralympic Games
At the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing, Domingos Sarmento Soares was one of eleven athletes in wheelchair tennis. To do this, the 29-year-old had to borrow a wheelchair in Beijing. Three athletes participated in weightlifting. Other disciplines with East Timorese athletes were marathons and table tennis.
An East Timor athlete took part in the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London. Filomeno Soares took part in the 200 and 400 m runs.
The two East Timorese athletes start over 400 m at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro: Domingas da Costa and António Mendonça .
The first chairman of the National Paralympic Federation was Julião Soares da Silva . In 2016 it's Julio Sarmento Lopes .
Asian Games and Para-Asian Games
At the 2018 Asian Games , East Timor competed with a team of 69 athletes. Among other things, the East Timorese took part in competitions in football, taekwondo and, for the first time, swimming with 19-year-old Imelda Felycita Ximenes Belo.
With Teófilo Freitas , an East Timorese won gold at the Para-Asian Games for the first time in the 400-meter race in 2018 . Pascoela dos Santos Pereira had previously won bronze, the first ever medal for East Timor at the Para-Asian Games. Freitas won gold over 1500 meters in the same games (class T37 / 38). Ines Fatima Oliveira Pires won the bronze medal in women's table tennis at the 9th FESPIC Games (Far East and South Pacific Games for the Disabled) .
Southeast Asian Games
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In 2003, East Timor took part in the 22nd Southeast Asian Games in Vietnam , again without winning a medal. The athletes' equipment was loaned to other Timorese participants, such as Malaysia . Among other things, one took part in the karate competitions. At the 2nd ASEAN ParaGames in Hanoi , East Timor won its first bronze medal at a major international sporting event. At the 3rd ASEAN ParaGames in Manila in 2005, East Timor again missed out.
In 2005, Elisabeth Yanti Almeida dos Santos , Francisca Varela and Fortunato Soares won bronze for East Timor at the 23rd Southeast Asian Games in Manila .
In 2007, at the Southeast Asian Games in Thailand , the acute lack of financial resources among the East Timorese athletes was shown again. Thailand funded 15 athletes and three officials to travel to the Games, with East Timor participating in tennis, taekwondo and karate competitions. But, for example, the tennis player José do Jesus did not even have his own racket and therefore no match practice.
In the 25th Southeast Asian Games in Vientiane in 2009 won Oriando dos Santos , Alves Almeida and Soarescorreia Kumite for East Timor bronze.
At the 2011 Southeast Asian Games in Palembang , Luisa Dos Santos won bronze in Taekwondo . After all, there were the first gold and silver medals for East Timor. In Kempō Karate , Julianto Pereira and Dorceyana Borges won gold (Kyu Kenshi) and Fidelia Da Costa and Domingos Savio won silver (Kumi Embu). There were also five other bronze medals in Kempō Karate and one in Taekwondo.
The 2013 Southeast Asian Games were very successful for East Timor. The country's athletes won gold twice, silver three times and bronze five times.
In 2015 the Southeast Asian Games were held in Singapore . Luisa dos Santos Rosa won silver in the “Under 49 kg women” class in the Taekwondo competition. Henrique Martins Borges Pereira won welterweight bronze in boxing. Before the start of the games, the team manager of the U23 soccer team Orlando Marques Henriques Mendes was arrested in Singapore. He is said to have received $ 15,000 so that East Timor would lose the upcoming game against Malaysia. One of the three other suspects in this case is former East Timorese international Moises Natalino de Jesus .
At the 2017 Southeast Asian Games in Kuala Lumpur , East Timor won three bronze medals in taekwondo. The medalists were Sonia Martins Soares , Nilton Gilman Corte-Real de Jesus Lemos and Ana da Costa da Silva Pinto Belo .
In 2019 , East Timor had to wait a long time for a medal. The Filipino spectators, however, were enthusiastic about the sporting spirit of the East Timorese, who nevertheless continued to exert themselves. There was a great wave of sympathy for the East Timorese athletes, who were now cheered on by the Filipino audience. From December 8th, the East Timorese won medals. José Barreto Quintas da Silva and Frederico Soares Sarmento took bronze in boxing. Amorin Imbrolia de Araújo dos Reis , Luisa dos Santos Rosa and Bonifacio da Silva Lobo won bronze in Taekwondo and Ana Da Costa Da Silva Pinto Belo even won silver for East Timor.
Jogos da Lusofonia
At the first Jogos da Lusofonia 2006 in Macau , East Timor took part in the following competitions: basketball, soccer, futsal , 800 meters for men, 3,000 meters for men, 5,000 meters for men and women, taekwondo , volleyball and beach volleyball . The futsal team were defeated 56-0 by Portugal and 76-0 by Brazil. Against Macau, the defeat was less clear with 13: 4. The extreme results led to discussions as to whether stricter selection criteria should be introduced for the next Jogos da Lusofonia. The East Timorese athletes could not claim a single victory in the other competitions either. The women's volleyball team received the bronze medal anyway, as only three teams took part in this competition.
At the Jogos da Lusofonia 2009 , East Timor landed again at the bottom of the nations ranking. Likewise in 2014 , after all with a bronze medal.
International competitions in East Timor
For some time now, various international sports competitions have been held in East Timor with government support. In addition to the Tour de Timor cycling race , these include an international sport fishing competition on Atauro (November 27th to 30th, 2009), the Timor Sea Cup 2010 football tournament (April 29th to May 2nd, 2010), the Dili Marathon and the Darwin sailing regatta Dili Yacht Rally (from July 3rd 2010).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Brunei U23 Vs East Timor U23 Result
- ↑ TVTL, April 28, 2010, TL to host Timor Sea Cup ( Memento from May 6, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Borneo Bulletin: Timor Leste champions of HBT , May 6, 2018 , accessed on May 14, 2018.
- ↑ IHF: New IHF Member Federations look to the future , December 20, 2017 , accessed on March 17, 2019.
- ↑ ETAN, September 15, 2006, A Survey of Gangs and Youth Groups in Dili, Timor-Leste 2006 (PDF; 3.1 MB)
- ↑ Text from 10/2008 (English) ( Memento from October 5, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 38 kB)
- ↑ AFP, June 20, 2010, Kenyan tops first East Timor marathon ( Memento of the original from December 28, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Birdlife IBA Factsheet - Tasitolu Peace Park
- ↑ Global Voices: Conheça a história de Kerry Galhos, a próxima “Serena Williams timorense” do ténis mundial , March 17, 2016 , accessed on March 17, 2019.
- ↑ AFP: Tiny East Timor faces huge hurdles on road to Beijing Olympics, June 2, 2008 , accessed September 14, 2013
- ↑ Comité Paralimpico Nacional de Timor-Leste , accessed on September 7 2016th
- ↑ Channel News Asia: East Timor teen goes from hotel pool to Asian Games , August 17, 2018 , accessed August 22, 2018.
- ↑ Lusa: Timorese athlete wins gold medal and beats Asian record in the 400 m , October 11, 2018 , accessed on October 12, 2018.
- ↑ Asian Para Games 2018: Results Men's 1500M T37 / 38 , accessed October 22, 2018.
- ↑ My Sinchew, December 10th 2007, Thailand: East Timor Money Crisis Hits Southeast Asian Games Efforts
- ^ Government of Timor-Leste: Timor-Leste won gold, silver and bronze medals in the 2011 Sea Games , November 25, 2011
- ↑ Yahoo News: Games-Santos Rosa claims first SEA Games silver for East Timor , June 13, 2015 , accessed June 15, 2015.
- ↑ Lim Yi Han: Singaporean bookie and Timor Leste team manager charged over plotting to fix SEA Games match . The Straits Times , May 30, 2015, accessed May 30, 2015.
- ↑ SEA 2017: Medal Audit , accessed on September 26, 2017.
- ↑ ABS-CBN News: At last, Timor Leste wins first 2019 SEA Games medal, thanks to boxing bronze , December 8, 2019 , accessed on December 8, 2019.
- ↑ Spin.ph: Pinoy fans rooting for Timor Leste to win a medal is the most wholesome thing , December 4, 2019 , accessed December 8, 2019.
- ↑ SEA 2019: Medalist , accessed December 9, 2019.
- ↑ NTnews, October 19, 2009, Timor out to reel in NT fishos for comp
- ↑ Goal.com, April 13, 2010, Indonesia, Australia And East Timor To Vie For Timor Sea Cup 2010
- ↑ Official website of the Dili Marathon ( Memento of the original from April 17, 2010 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. (English)
- ↑ Official website for the sailing regatta Darwin Dili Yacht Rally (English)
