Augusto Cardoso

Augusto Cardoso
Personal information
Full name Augusto Manuel Ferreira
Cardoso Pereira
Nationality  Portugal
Born (1972-12-13) 13 December 1972
Paranhos, Grande Porto,
Portugal
Height 1.72 m (5 ft 7 1⁄2 in)
Weight 65 kg (143 lb)
Sport
Sport Athletics
Event(s) Race walking
Club FC Porto
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s) 20 km walk: 1:22:40 (1999)
50 km walk: 3:55:14 (2007)

Augusto Manuel Ferreira Cardoso Pereira (born December 13, 1972 in Paranhos, Grande Porto) is a Portuguese race walker.[1] He set a personal best time of 3:55:14, by finishing sixteenth for the men's 50 km at the 2007 European Race Walking Cup in Royal Leamington Spa, England.[2]

Cardoso represented Portugal at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where he competed for the men's 50 km race walk, along with his teammate António Pereira. He successfully finished the race in fortieth place by twenty-eight seconds behind United States' Philip Dunn, with a time of 4:09:00.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill. "Augusto Cardoso". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 16 January 2013.
  2. ↑ "Men's 50km Results – European Race Walking Cup (Royal Leamington Spa 2007)" (PDF). European Athletics. Retrieved 16 January 2013.
  3. ↑ "Men's 50km Walk". NBC Olympics. Archived from the original on 30 July 2012. Retrieved 16 January 2013.


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