Portugal competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, United States.
A delegation of thirty eight competitors participated in eleven sports, bringing home a total of three medals – a feat only repeated 20 years later, in Athens – including Portugal's first ever Olympic gold medal, through Carlos Lopes in the marathon. Rosa Mota, future marathon olympic champion, was the bronze medalist of this event, who appeared for the first time in the Olympics.
Portugal made its debut in the Olympic archery as well as in the diving, with Joana Figueiredo as the first Portuguese Olympic diver. Female competitors were also present at the first rhythmic gymnastics events in an Olympiad.
Medalists
MedalNameSportEventDate Athletics Men's marathon 12 August Athletics Women's marathon 5 August Athletics Men's 5000 metres 11 August
Archery
Men's Competition: Rui Santos — 2324 pts (→ 51st) {|class=wikitable style="text-align:center;" !Distance!!90m!!70m!!50m!!30m!!Total |- !Round 1 |248||287||304||334||1173 |- !Round 2 |240||290||291||330||1151 |- !Total |488||577||595||664||2324
Athletics
Men's Events 100m: Luís Barroso Round 1 (heat 8) — 10.76 (→ 4th, did not advance)
200m: Luís Barroso Round 1 (heat 7) — 22.03 (→ 6th, did not advance)
5,000m: Ezequiel Canário Round 1 (heat 1) — 13:43.28 (→ 1st) Semi-final (heat 2) — 13:32.64 (→ 9th, advanced as 3rd fastest loser) Final — 13:26.50 (→ 9th)
João Campos Round 1 (heat 3) — 13:46.27 (→ 5th) Semi-final (heat 2) — 13:34.46 (→ 10th, did not advance)
António Leitão Round 1 (heat 4) — 13:51.33 (→ 1st) Semi-final (heat 1) — 13:39.76 (→ 2nd) Final — 13:09.20 (→ Bronze Medal)
10,000m: Fernando Mamede Round 1 (heat 1) — 28:21.87 (→ 1st) Final — did not finish
Marathon: Carlos Lopes — 2:09:21 OR (→ Gold Medal) Cidálio Caetano — did not finish Delfim Moreira — did not finish
20 km Walk: José Pinto — 1:30:57 (→ 25th)
50 km Walk: José Pinto — 4:04:42 (→ 8th)
Women's Events 800m: Maria Machado Round 1 (heat 4) — 2:05.74 (→ 5th, did not advance)
3000m: Aurora Cunha Round 1 (heat 1) — 8:46.38 (→ 4th, advanced as 2nd fastest loser) Final — 8:46.37 (→ 6th)
Maria Machado Round 1 (heat 2) — 9:01.77 (→ 4th, did not advance)
Rosa Mota Round 1 (heat 3) — did not finish
Marathon: Conceição Ferreira — 2:50:58 (→ 39th) Rita Borralho — 2:50:58 (→ 38th) Rosa Mota — 2:26:57 (→ Bronze Medal)
Diving
Women's 3m Springboard: Joana Figueiredo Preliminary — 374,07 pts (→ 22nd, did not advance) {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;" |- !Dive!!1!!2!!3!!4!!5!!6!!7!!8!!9!!10!!rowspan=2|Total |- !Coef. |1.5||1.9||2.0||1.7||2.4||2.4||2.8||2.8||2.1||2.5 |- !Pts |32,40||35,34||40,80||35,15||43,92||46,80||24,36||27,72||41,58||48,00||374,07
Fencing
One fencer represented Portugal in 1984
Men's sabre João Marquilhas — 31st Round 1 (Pool C) — 5 matches, 0 victories (→ 6th, did not advance) Jorg Stratmann (FRG) (→ lost 5:4) John Zarno (GBR) (→ lost 5:3) Michael Lofton (USA) (→ lost 5:4) Ruiji Wang (CHN) (→ lost 5:2) Jean François Lamour (FRA) (→ lost 5:3)
Gymnastics
Individual All-Round Competition: Margarida Carmo — 54,575 pts (→ 18th) {|class=wikitable style="text-align:center;" !Hoop!!Ball!!Clubs!!Ribbon!!Results!!Prelim. |- |9,15||9,15||9,15||9,00||36,45||18,125 |- !colspan=4|Total (results + prelim.) |colspan=2|54,575
Maria João Falcão — 35,90 pts (→ 22nd) {|class=wikitable style="text-align:center;" !Hoop!!Ball!!Clubs!!Ribbon!!Results |- |9,05||9,00||9,20||8,65||35,90 |- !colspan=4|Total |35,90
Judo
Men's Extra Lightweight (–60 kg): João Neves Pool B Round 1 — Shinji Hosokawa (JPN) (→ lost by ippon) Repêchage — Luís Shinoara (BRA) (→ lost by default, did not advance)
Men's Half Lightweight (–65 kg): Rui Rosa Pool A Round 1 — Bye Round 2 — Stephen Gawthorpe (GBR) (→ lost by ippon, did not advance)
Men's Lightweight (–71 kg): Hugo d'Assunção Pool B Round 1 — Federico Vixcarra (MEX) (→ lost by waza-ari, did not advance)
Men's Half Middleweight (–76 kg): António Roquete Andrade Pool A Round 1 — Javier Condor (CRC) (→ won by ippon) Round 2 — Abdoulaye Diallo (GUI) (→ won by ippon) Round 3 — Suheyl Yesilnur (TUR) (→ lost by koka, did not advance)
Modern pentathlon
Men's Individual Competition: Luís Monteiro — 4332 pts (→ 43rd) {|class=wikitable style="text-align:center;" !Event !Riding !Fencing !Swimming !Shooting !Cross-country !Total |- !Pts |1070 |472 |1016 |868 |906 |4332
Manuel Barroso — 4085 pts (→ 49th) {|class=wikitable style="text-align:center;" !Event !Riding !Fencing !Swimming !Shooting !Cross-country !Total |- !Pts |818 |670 |1200 |348 |1057 |4085
Roberto Durão — 4321 pts (→ 44th) {|class=wikitable style="text-align:center;" !Event !Riding !Fencing !Swimming !Shooting !Cross-country !Total |- !Pts |918 |736 |904 |956 |807 |4321
Men's Team Competition: Luís Monteiro, Manuel Barroso and Roberto Durão — 12738 pts (→ 16th) {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;" !Event !Riding !Fencing !Swimming !Shooting !Cross-country !Total |- !Pts |2806 |1878 |3120 |2164 |2770 |12738
Sailing
Star: António Correia and Henrique Anjos — 128 pts (→ 17th) {|class=wikitable style="text-align:center;" !Race!!1!!2!!3!!4!!5!!6!!7!!rowspan=2|Total!!rowspan=2|Net |- !Place |13th||19th||15th||18th||14th||17th||16th |- !Pts |19||25||21||24||20||23||22||153||128
Windglider: José Monteiro — 152 pts (→ 22nd) {|class=wikitable style="text-align:center;" !Race!!1!!2!!3!!4!!5!!6!!7!!rowspan=2|Total!!rowspan=2|Net |- !Place |18th||23rd||25th||26th||17th||23rd||13th |- !Pts |24||29||31||32||23||29||19||184||152
Shooting
Men's 25m Rapid Fire Pistol: Francisco Neto — 586 hits (→ 20th) {|class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;" !rowspan=2|Time(secs) !colspan=4|Stage 1 !colspan=4|Stage 2 !rowspan=2|Total |- !1!!2!!1+2!!Sum (1+2) !1!!2!!1+2!!Sum (1+2) |- !8 |49||49||98||rowspan=3|294 |49||49||98||rowspan=3|292 |rowspan=3|586 |- !6 |50||50||100 |49||49||98 |- !4 |47||49||96 |47||49||96
José Pena — 571 hits (→ 42nd) {|class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;" !rowspan=2|Time(secs) !colspan=4|Stage 1 !colspan=4|Stage 2 !rowspan=2|Total |- !1!!2!!1+2!!Sum (1+2) !1!!2!!1+2!!Sum (1+2) |- !8 |50||49||99||rowspan=3|287 |50||49||99||rowspan=3|284 |rowspan=3|571 |- !6 |49||49||98 |47||48||95 |- !4 |46||44||90 |46||44||90
Men's 50m Pistol: José Pena — 533 hits (→ 39th) {|class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;" !Round!!1!!2!!3!!4!!5!!6!!Total |- !Hits |90||87||87||87||95||87||533
Men's Trap: José Faria — 179 hits (→ 28th) {|class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;" !Round!!1!!2!!3!!4!!5!!6!!7!!8!!Total |- !Hits |24||21||24||22||24||20||23||21||179
Women's 25m Pistol: Maria Chitas — 572 hits (→ 15th) {|class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;" !Round!!1!!2!!3!!4!!5!!6!!Total |- !Hits |92||97||94||96||97||96||572
Swimming
Men's 100m Breaststroke: Alexandre Yokochi Heats (heat 4) — 1:07.80 (→ 5th, did not advance)
Men's 200m Breaststroke: Alexandre Yokochi Heats (heat 2) — 2:19.76 (→ 2nd) Final A — 2:20.69 (→ 7th)
Men's 100m Butterfly: João Santos Heats (heat 4) — 58.17 (→ 6th, did not advance)
Men's 200m Butterfly: João Santos Heats (heat 5) — 2:04.72 (→ 5th, did not advance)
Weightlifting
Men's Flyweight (–52 kg): Raul Diniz Group B — 0,0 kg (→ no classification) {|class=wikitable style="text-align:center;" !rowspan=2|Event!!colspan=3|Attempt!!rowspan=2|Result |- !1!!2!!3 |- !Snatch |82,5||87,5||87,5||82,5 |- !Clean& Jerk |115,0||115,0||115,0||0,0 |- !colspan=4|Total |0,0
Men's Middleweight (–75 kg): Jorge Soares Group B — withdraw
Men's Middle Heavyweight (–90 kg): Francisco Coelho Group B — 340,0 kg (→ 13th) {|class=wikitable style="text-align:center;" !rowspan=2|Event!!colspan=3|Attempt!!rowspan=2|Result |- !1!!2!!3 |- !Snatch |150,0||150,0||160,0||160,0 |- !Clean& Jerk |190,0||190,0||195,0||190,0 |- !colspan=4|Total |340,0
Officials José Vicente de Moura (chief of mission)
References
Notes Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee (1985). Official Report of the Games of the XXIII Olympiad Los Angeles, 1984 - Volume 1: Organization and planning (Retrieved on November 9, 2006) Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee (1985). Official Report of the Games of the XXIII Olympiad Los Angeles, 1984 - Volume 2: Competition summary and results (Retrieved on November 9–10, 2006) International Olympic Committee – Olympic medal winners database