Sporting CP (athletics)

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]

Sporting CP

Full name	Sporting Clube de Portugal
Founded	1910 (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)

Domestic competitions

• Portuguese Outdoor Men's Athletics Championship

• 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

• Portuguese Indoor Men's Athletics Championship

• 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

• European Champion Clubs Cup

• Winners (1): 2000
• Runners-up (3): 2007, 2009, 2010

Copa Iberica

• 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)

Domestic competitions

• Portuguese Outdoor Women's Athletics Championship

• 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

• Portuguese Indoor Women's Athletics Championship

• 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

• European Champion Clubs Cup

• Winners (2): 2016, 2018

• European Champion Clubs Cup Cross Country
  • Winners (2): 2018, 2019

Technical staff

^[10]

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

• 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

1. "Complexo Alvalade XXI". wikimapia.org (in Portuguese and English).
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.
10. "Team Technical Staff". Sporting.pt. Retrieved 2010-08-09.

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