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]
| Full name | Sporting Clube de Portugal |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1910 |
| Ground | Complexo Alvalade XXI,[1] |
| Location | Lisbon |
| Track(s) | Estádio Universitário de Lisboa |
| League(s) | Portuguese Men's Athletics League Portuguese Women's Athletics League |
Manager | Carlos Lopes |
| Colors | Green / White |
| Website | AthleticsSporting |
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]
Honours (Men's)
editDomestic competitions
edit- Winners (48): 1941, 1943, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1950, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1981, 1985, 1987, 1988, 1995, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010
- Winners (17): 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2017
- Portuguese Cross Country Championship:
- Winners (49): 1912, 1928, 1930, 1931, 1935, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1952, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1993, 1995, 1997, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021
- Portuguese Cross Country mid-race Championship:
- Winners (8): 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012
- Portuguese Men's Athletics Cup
- Winners (4): 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000
International competitions
edit- Winners (1): 2000
- Runners-up (3): 2007, 2009, 2010
- Winners (1): 2021
- European Champion Clubs Cup Cross Country
- Winners (15): 1977, 1979, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 2018
Honours (Women's)
editDomestic competitions
edit- Winners (49): 1945, 1946, 1947, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1987, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018
- Winners (23): 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 , 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018
- Portuguese Cross Country Championship:
- Winners (8): 1972, 1973, 1974, 2014, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021
- Portuguese Cross Country mid-race Championship:
- Winners (7): 2000, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017
- Portuguese Women's Athletics Cup
- Winners (5): 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000
International competitions
edit- Winners (2): 2016, 2018
- European Champion Clubs Cup Cross Country
- Winners (2): 2018, 2019
Technical staff
edit| Name | Nat. | Job |
|---|---|---|
| Carlos Lopes | 
|
Manager |
| Abreu Matos |
|
Coordinator |
| Anabela Leite |
|
Coach and Youth Academy Director |
| Nuno Alpiarça |
|
Coach |
| Armando Aldegalega |
|
Coach |
| Prof. Bernardo Manuel |
|
Coach |
| José Fonseca |
|
Coach |
| Luís Herédio Costa |
|
Coach |
Notable past athletes
edit- António Stromp
- Salazar Carreira
- Mário Moniz Pereira
- Dália da Cunha-Sammer
- Álvaro Dias
- Manuel Faria
- Manuel de Oliveira
- Lídia Faria
- Armando Aldegalega
- Carlos Lopes
- Fernando Mamede
- Aniceto Simões
- José Carvalho
- Hélder de Jesus
- Domingos Castro
- Dionísio Castro
- Ezequiel Canário
- Manuela Machado
- Carla Sacramento
- Rui Silva
- Carlos Calado
- Paulo Guerra
- Francis Obikwelu
- Naíde Gomes
- Arnaldo Abrantes (father)
- Arnaldo Abrantes (son)
- Carlos Cabral
- Lucrécia Jardim
- Rafael Marques
References
edit- ^ "Complexo Alvalade XXI". wikimapia.org (in Portuguese and English).
- ^ "Resumo da História do Sporting". Diário de Notícias. Retrieved 2024-02-11.
- ^ "Atletismo". www.sporting.pt (in European Portuguese). 2015-05-11. Retrieved 2024-02-11.
- ^ "100 Olympic Tidbits: Portugal's First Gold Medalist". Yahoo News. 2012-07-21. Retrieved 2023-08-15.
- ^ "Visão | Há 40 anos: a medalha olímpica que mudou Portugal". Visão (in European Portuguese). 2016-07-26. Retrieved 2023-10-31.
- ^ "Corrida Sporting: Jacinto Gaspar e Verónica José vencem em Alvalade". www.record.pt (in European Portuguese). Retrieved 2023-09-04.
- ^ "Vitórias leoninas na Corrida do Sporting" (in Portuguese). Atleta-Digital. 14 Oct 2017. Retrieved 7 July 2017.
- ^ Consulting, HMS Sports. "Corrida Sporting | 15 de Outubro, 2023". Corrida Sporting (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2023-09-04.
- ^ "Pombal acolherá Meeting de Atletismo Professor Moniz Pereira até 2025". Jornal de Leiria (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2024-01-31.
- ^ "Team Technical Staff". Sporting.pt. Retrieved 2010-08-09.
[1] Sporting CP Official Website