World Athletics, the international athletics federation, agreed on Thursday that transgender athletes should not compete in the women’s category at international events. The organization’s president, Sebastian Coe, declared on Thursday that from March 31, no transgender athlete who has gone through male puberty will be allowed to participate in competitions that score for the world […]
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Duplantis’ record on the pole concludes a journey that also had a maximum in the barriers
In the final game of the World Athletics Championships, Swede Armand Duplantis broke the pole vault world record on Monday, the second maximum of the day, after Nigerian Tobi Amusan’s unexpected record in the barriers. Even at the end of the 10th and final round of these championships which took place in Eugene, Duplantis did […]
World Champion Pichardo: ″This medal belongs to Portugal″
Portuguese Pedro Pablo Pichardo won the triple jump world title in Eugene, in the United States, by ‘flying’ 17.95 meters in his first attempt. Pedro Pablo Pichardo added the title of world champion to the gold medal won at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, on August 5, 2021, with 17.95 meters achieved in the first […]
João Vieira: ″I don’t aim for medals, but a good result″
Arrives at the 2022 Oregon Worlds at age 46 and after breaking the national record for the 35km marches in April [2h33m23s]. What does that mean? It means great discipline and great dedication to one discipline, the racewalk. Breaking the national record in April was a very important milestone for me as it showed that […]
On the eighth day of the worlds, an ‘out of this world’ record for Sidney MacLaughlin
Sidney MacLaughlin’s expected world record in the 400-meter hurdles was confirmed in Eugene, but the American athlete nevertheless surprised by removing 73 hundredths from the previous point to 50.68 seconds. On the eighth day of competitions, the World Athletics Championships, which take place in the North American city of Eugene, are already having a great […]
World Athletics. Pichardo obeyed and Tiago Pereira suffered on the day of Leandro Ramos
Pedro Pichardo, the leading Portuguese candidate for gold at the World Championships in Athletics, complied and qualified for the first time in the triple jump with Tiago Pereira’s company on Thursday, while Leandro Ramos ‘fell’ in the javelin throw. The Olympic champion in Tokyo 2020 sent qualifying in the first jump, measured at 17.16 meters, […]
Liliana Here’s the sixth on the record. Mariana Machado and Cátia Azevedo are on their way
Liliana Cá reached sixth place in weight throwing at the World Athletics Championships on Wednesday, on a sixth day when Mariana Machado and Cátia Azevedo finished their participation, in Eugene, in the United States. Here, fifth at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, he achieved the second best Portuguese classification in the 18th World Cup to date, […]
Vera Barbosa eliminated in the 400m hurdles. Big disappointments for Norway and Ukraine
Vera Barbosa, the only Portuguese to participate in the fifth day of the World Athletics Championships, in Eugene, Oregon, was in the qualifiers in the 400-meter hurdles on Tuesday. Starting with the sixth best time of the year in the fifth and final series, the Vila Franca de Xira native raced from the outside, on […]
″A low point″. Patrícia Mamona eighth in triple jump
Portugal’s Patrícia Mamona finished eighth in the triple jump competition of the World Athletics Championships, won by Venezuelan Yulimar Rojas, who rehabilitated the world title and added it to the Olympics. In Eugene, in the United States, Patrícia Mamona, silver medalist in Tokyo 2020, finished behind Rojas, Monday’s race with the 14.29 meters achieved in […]
Castor wants to repeat the silver success of Tokyo2020. US Medal Rain
Portuguese Patrícia Mamona wants to repeat the success of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games this Monday in the triple jump final of the World Athletics Championships, in Eugene, in the United States. For Venezuelan Yulimar Rojas, Olympic champion and world record holder, the Portuguese triple runner, silver medalist at last year’s Games, is trying to […]