Sporting CP (athletics)

Sporting CP
Full nameSporting Clube de Portugal
Founded1910 (1910)
GroundComplexo Alvalade XXI,[1]
LocationLisbon
Track(s)Estádio Universitário de Lisboa
League(s)Portuguese Men's Athletics League
Portuguese Women's Athletics League
Manager
Carlos Lopes
ColorsGreen / White
WebsiteAthleticsSporting

Sporting CP's athletics department is, along with football's, a department that has been in continuous operation at Sporting Clube de Portugal since the foundation of the sports club in 1906.[2][3]

Having been the most represented club in the Olympic Games, this section of the sports club, headed many decades by athletics coach Mário Moniz Pereira (1921 – 2016), is one of the most decorated Portuguese athletics teams and is responsible for much of the titles won by the sports club throughout its history. Sporting Portugal's athletics department long-distance runner Carlos Lopes won the marathon at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles for Portugal, becoming Portugal's first Olympic gold medalist ever.[4] In the 1976 Summer Olympics, he had already won the first Olympic silver medal in the history of Portuguese sports, competing in the men's 10,000 metres.[5]

The annual Sporting running race, established in 2011, is organized by the club[6][7][8] as well as the international athletics meeting Meeting de Atletismo Professor Moniz Pereira.[9]

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  2. ^ "Resumo da História do Sporting". Diário de Notícias. Retrieved 2024-02-11.
  3. ^ "Atletismo". www.sporting.pt (in European Portuguese). 2015-05-11. Retrieved 2024-02-11.
  4. ^ "100 Olympic Tidbits: Portugal's First Gold Medalist". Yahoo News. 2012-07-21. Retrieved 2023-08-15.
  5. ^ "Visão | Há 40 anos: a medalha olímpica que mudou Portugal". Visão (in European Portuguese). 2016-07-26. Retrieved 2023-10-31.
  6. ^ "Corrida Sporting: Jacinto Gaspar e Verónica José vencem em Alvalade". www.record.pt (in European Portuguese). Retrieved 2023-09-04.
  7. ^ "Vitórias leoninas na Corrida do Sporting" (in Portuguese). Atleta-Digital. 14 Oct 2017. Retrieved 7 July 2017.
  8. ^ Consulting, HMS Sports. "Corrida Sporting | 15 de Outubro, 2023". Corrida Sporting (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2023-09-04.
  9. ^ "Pombal acolherá Meeting de Atletismo Professor Moniz Pereira até 2025". Jornal de Leiria (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2024-01-31.