Portugal with nine sports and 25 quotas 200 days before the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris

Portugal has already secured 25 quotas for the 2024 Paris Olympics and nine terms have been agreed with the Portuguese in France 200 days before the start of Monday’s competition.

The Portuguese Olympic Committee awarded 17 contracts in Paris, with the number of athletes still far from the 92 at Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020, which used the collective method.

Of the 66 medals targeted, Portugal has already won 31, with the focus on swimmer Diogo Ribeiro, who already has minimums in three distances (50 and 100m freestyle and 100m butterfly).

Swimming is one of the best represented sports at the moment: the world vice-champion in the 50m butterfly joins João Costa (100m backstroke), Camila Rebel (200m backstroke) and Miguel Nasciment (50m freestyle). . .

At Paris 2024, athletics will have a different way of qualifying, with 50% of the spots allocated to rankings and the rest taken up by athletes with minimal qualifications. This means that the final list of qualified candidates will be compiled only on June 30, 2024. famous.

Despite this, Portugal already has six athletes with minimums, the latest being Samuel Barata and Susana Godinho, who reached the qualifying mark at the Valencia Marathon in December.

Also, Auriol Dongmo in the shot put, who recently suffered a serious injury, Isaac Nader in the 1500 meters, João Coelho in the 400 meters and Ana Cabesinha in the 20 kilometers have already reached the qualifying mark required by the World Sports Federation. Athletics.

A place in Paris is also guaranteed for canoeist Fernando Pimenta (K1 1000m), who in the French capital could become the first Portuguese to win three Olympic medals – silver in London 2012 in the K2 1000m with Emanuel Silva and bronze. in K1 1000 in Tokyo2020.

In addition to the athlete from Lima, quotas for Portugal also went to Teresa Portela (K1 500) and world champions João Ribeiro and Messias Baptista (K2 500).

Having finished sixth in the time trial at the last World Championships, Nelson Oliveira has already guaranteed a place for the Portuguese colors in this specialty, with the ranking providing two more quotas in the long distance race and another in the chrono. however, the two cyclists must be identical in both tests.

Portugal, ranked 12th in the men’s ranking, thus repeats the two Tokyo 2020 cyclists yet to be determined by the selector, again having a cyclist in the women’s long-distance race, something that has not happened since Atlanta 1996.

At the end of September, Maria Ines Barros “secured” her place in the Portuguese national team by becoming European champion in skeet shooting in Osijek, Croatia, becoming the first Portuguese woman in this specialty.

Thanks to her World Surf League rankings, Teresa Bonvalot knows she will compete in surfing at the Olympics in French Polynesia for the second year in a row.

Trampoline gymnastics also cemented its presence in the French capital after Pedro Ferreira and Gabriel Albuquerque reached the men’s individual trampoline final at the World Gymnastics Championships.

Despite being represented by two gymnasts in the final in Birmingham, England, Portugal was only eligible for one quota for the 2024 Games in Paris, as the eight finalists in the men’s and women’s competitions guaranteed the country a place, with a limit of one vacancy per nation.

In artistic gymnastics, Filipa Martins earned her place by qualifying 27th and reaching the all-around final at the World Championships in Antwerp, Belgium.

After calculating the team quotas, the gymnast secured one of 14 individual places in the all-around.

Equestrian sport is the latest discipline to join the Portuguese mission, thanks to the positions of Maria Caetano (dressage) and Duarte Seabra (hurdles) in the International Equestrian Federation’s Olympic qualifying rankings, which closed on December 31, 2023.

However, the individual quotas guaranteed by these two riders are for the country, and the Portuguese Equestrian Federation will later indicate who will take them in Paris in 2024.

Sailing is now in great doubt, as Vasily Karachilou, a Greek sailor competing for Portugal under a special World Sailing license, also won a place in ILCA 6, but the Greek Olympic Committee has already stated that it did not give permission for the sailor to participate in Portugal, and therefore the quota must be transferred to another country.

In the same way, Diogo Costa and Carolina Joao were the first to secure a quota for Portugal (470) at the World Championships in The Hague, where Eduardo Marques also secured his place in ILCA 7.