Portugal at the 2015 European Games

Portugal at the 2015 European Games
IOC code	POR
NOC	Olympic Committee of Portugal
Website	www.comiteolimpicoportugal.pt
in Baku, Azerbaijan 12 – 28 June 2015
Competitors	100 in 14 sports
Flag bearer	João Costa (opening) Telma Monteiro (closing)
Medals Ranked 18th	Gold 3 Silver 4 Bronze 3 Total 10
Officials	45
European Games appearances
2015

Portugal participated at the 2015 European Games in Baku, Azerbaijan, from 12 to 28 June 2015, with a delegation of 100 athletes that competed in 14 sports.^[1]

On 10 April 2015, the Olympic Committee of Portugal (COP) announced that the country had secured 99 athlete quota places in 13 sports, with the possibility of increasing this number by the deadline for inscription of athletes (30 April 2015).^[2] On 12 May 2015, COP announced a list of 101 athletes competing in 14 sports, following a reallocation of badminton quota places.^[3] On 4 June 2015, a final list of 100 athletes was announced, with the exclusion of female wrestler Ana Pereira due to failure in complying with the national federation selection criteria.^[4] In addition, two injury-related changes were made: female gymnast Zoi Lima and male table tennis player João Monteiro were substituted by Mariana Pitrez and João Geraldo.^[4] On the opening day of the Games, clinical issues forced four last-minute athlete changes: female swimmer Tamila Holub (appendicitis) was replaced by Madalena Azevedo, while the acrobatic gymnastics female trio was replaced due to injury of one of its members (Raquel Martins) by Jéssica Correia, Joana Patrocínio and Susana Pinto.^[5]

The delegation will include a staff of 59 people, among which 45 officials, and will be headed by former Olympic canoer José Garcia,^[3] who will also lead the Olympic mission to the 2016 Summer Olympics.^[6] Four-time Olympic shooter João Costa was chosen to be the flagbearer at the opening ceremony,^[7] while multiple world and European medal-winning judoka Telma Monteiro will carry the flag at the closing ceremony.^[8]

Medal summary

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
Gold	Tiago Apolónia Marcos Freitas João Geraldo	Table tennis	Men's team	15 June
Gold	Rui Bragança	Taekwondo	Men's –58 kg	16 June
Gold	Telma Monteiro	Judo	Women's –57 kg	25 June
Silver	João Silva	Triathlon	Men's triathlon	14 June
Silver	Fernando Pimenta	Canoe sprint	Men's K1 1000 m	15 June
Silver	Fernando Pimenta	Canoe sprint	Men's K1 5000 m	16 June
Silver	João Costa	Shooting	Men's 10 m air pistol	17 June
Bronze	Júlio Ferreira	Taekwondo	Men's –80 kg	18 June
Bronze	Ana Rente Beatriz Martins	Gymnastics	Women's trampoline synchronized	21 June
Bronze	Portugal national beach soccer team Alan   Madjer Elinton Andrade   Bruno Novo Tiago Batalha   Tiago Petrony Nuno Belchior   Bernardo Santos Rui Coimbra   Jordan Santos José Maria Fonseca   Bruno Torres	Beach soccer	Men's tournament	28 June

Badminton

Portugal qualified three athletes in three events, based on the ranking list released by the Badminton World Federation on 26 March 2015.^[9] The competition took place at the Baku Sports Hall from 22 to 28 June. None of the participating athletes were able to advance from the group play stage, with Sónia Gonçalves securing the only Portuguese win in this competition.

Badminton event results^[10][11][12]

Athlete	Event	Group play stage			Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Gold/Bronze medal match	Rank
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Ricardo Silva	Men's singles	Corvée (FRA) L 6–21, 11–21	Holst (DEN) L 9–21, 9–21	Durkinjak (CRO) L 13–21, 10–21	Did not advance				25–32
Ângelo Silva Ricardo Silva	Men's doubles	Florian and Kopriva (CZE) L 15–21, 18–21	Magee and Magee (IRL) L 15–21, 6–21	Boe and Mogensen (DEN) L 10–21, 7–21	N/A	Did not advance			13–16
Sónia Gonçalves	Women's singles	Azurmendi (ESP) L 16–21, 10–21	Simić (SRB) W 21–16, 21–15	Kjaersfeldt (DEN) L 7–21, 13–21	Did not advance				13–18

Beach soccer

Portugal qualified a team of 12 players based on the results at the 2014 Euro Beach Soccer League.^[13] The competition took place at the Beach Arena from 24 to 28 June.

The Portuguese team finished at the top of Group A, ahead of Switzerland, after winning all of its matches. As a result, they advanced to the semi-finals, where they suffered a 2–1 defeat against Group B runners-up and world champions Russia. Having beaten Switzerland 6–5 in the group stage, Portugal repeated the scoreline in the bronze medal match to secure the tenth and last Portuguese medal at these Games.^[14]

Squad

Coach: Mário Narciso

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Club
1	1GK	Tiago Petrony	(1988-11-18)18 November 1988 (aged 26)	16	Sporting CP
2	2DF	Rui Coimbra	(1986-04-14)14 April 1986 (aged 29)	120	Sporting CP
3	2DF	Tiago Batalha	(1989-09-01)1 September 1989 (aged 25)	2	Braga
4	2DF	Bruno Torres	(1980-04-21)21 April 1980 (aged 35)	144	Braga
5	3MF	Jordan Santos	(1991-07-02)2 July 1991 (aged 23)	67	Sporting CP
6	4FW	Alan	(1975-06-21)21 June 1975 (aged 40)	392	BS Botafogo
7	2DF	Madjer	(1977-01-22)22 January 1977 (aged 38)	461	Sporting CP
8	4FW	José Maria Fonseca	(1982-07-23)23 July 1982 (aged 32)	29	Braga
9	4FW	Bruno Novo	(1982-05-04)4 May 1982 (aged 33)	105	Braga
10	4FW	Nuno Belchior	(1982-10-09)9 October 1982 (aged 32)	167	Sporting CP
11	2DF	Bernardo Santos	(1989-12-29)29 December 1989 (aged 25)	7	BS Botafogo
12	1GK	Elinton Andrade	(1979-03-30)30 March 1979 (aged 36)	2	BS Flamengo

Source: Baku 2015 European Games^[15]

Group stage

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	WE	WP	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Group stage result
1	Portugal	3	2	1	0	0	17	13	+4	8	Advanced to semifinals
2	Switzerland	3	2	0	0	1	17	14	+3	6
3	Ukraine	3	1	0	0	2	11	11	0	3	Advanced to classification matches
4	Azerbaijan	3	0	0	0	3	9	16	−7	0

Source: Baku 2015 European Games^[16]

24 June 201517:30 AZST (UTC+5)

Portugal	6–5	Switzerland
Madjer  4:31' (P1) Belchior  10:29' (P2), 10:19' (P3), 4:17' (P3) Fonseca  2:16' (P2), 5:36' (P3)	Report[17]	Stanković  10:11' (P1), 5:02' (P1) M. Jaeggy  9:28' (P2) Ott  7:28' (P2), 4:31' (P3)

Beach Arena, Baku

Referee: Gionni Matticoli (Italy), Sofien Benchabane (France), Yeliz Topaloglu (Turkey)

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25 June 201517:30 AZST (UTC+5)

Portugal	5–4 (a.e.t.)	Ukraine
Belchior  10:09' (P1), 4:59' (P3) Coimbra  0:24' (P2) J. Santos  3:36' (P3) B. Santos  1:52' (ET)	Report[18]	Borsuk  10:01' (P2) Pachev  9:51' (P2), 2:05' (P2) Korniichuk  4:36' (P2)

Beach Arena, Baku

Referee: Amin Utulu (Malta), Richard de Bruijn (Netherlands), Gionni Matticoli (Italy)

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26 June 201520:30 AZST (UTC+5)

Azerbaijan	4–6	Portugal
Zeynalov  9:54' (P1), 4:11' (P1) Allahguliyev  8:56' (P1) Aliyev  3:55' (P3)	Report[19]	Torres  10:50' (P2) Madjer  1:51' (P2), 8:14' (P3), 0:50' (P3) Fonseca  7:26' (P3), 1:20' (P3)

Beach Arena, Baku

Referee: Gionni Matticoli (Italy), Richard de Bruijn (Netherlands), Sofien Benchabane (France)

Semi-finals

27 June 201520:30 AZST (UTC+5)

Portugal	1–2	Russia
Fonseca  6:01' (P2)	Report[20]	Paporotnyi  10:30' (P2), 1:56' (P3)

Beach Arena, Baku

Referee: Amin Utulu (Malta), Lukasz Ostrowski (Poland), Oleg Cebotari (Moldova)

Bronze medal match

28 June 201514:30 AZST (UTC+5)

Switzerland	5–6	Portugal
Borer  10:25' (P2), 8:28' (P3) Spaccarotella  2:07' (P2) M. Jaeggy  8:47' (P3) Ott  7:13' (P3)	Report[21]	Belchior  4:16' (P1), 4:59' (P3), 4:31' (P3) Torres  10:28' (P2) J. Santos  3:00' (P2) Alan  2:10' (P2)

Beach Arena, Baku

Referee: Gionni Matticoli (Italy), Laurynas Arzuolaitis (Lithuania), Ago Kartmann (Estonia)

Canoe sprint

Portugal qualified thirteen athletes in eleven events, based on the results at the 2014 Canoe Sprint European Championships. The competition took place at the Kur Sport and Rowing Centre in Mingachevir from 14 to 16 June.

Portuguese boats qualified for eight finals (seven finals A and one final B). The best results came through Olympic silver medalist Fernando Pimenta, who won two silver medals, after finishing behind Germany's Max Hoff in the men's K1 1000 and 5000 metres events. Pimenta was the only Portuguese athlete to win more than one medal at these Games.

Men

Men's canoe sprint event results^{[22][23][24][25][26][27]}

Athlete	Event	Heats		Semifinals		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Hélder Silva	C1 200 m	39.248	1 Q	Bye		40.682	5
Diogo Lopes	K1 200 m	36.441	5 q	36.443	9	Did not advance
Fernando Pimenta	K1 1000 m	3:40.476	1 Q	3:25.832	1 Q	3:28.421
	K1 5000 m	N/A				20:11.989
Emanuel Silva João Ribeiro	K2 1000 m	3:14.726	4 q	3:08.734	3 Q	3:18.659	9
David Fernandes Emanuel Silva Fernando Pimenta João Ribeiro	K4 1000 m	2:53.152	2 Q	Bye		3:09:010	5

Women

Cycling

Portugal qualified nine athletes in six events, based on the national ranking list released by the Union Cycliste Internationale on 31 December 2014. The competition took place from 16 to 27 June in several courses and venues across Baku. Mountain biker David Rosa was the only Portuguese athlete to reach a top-ten placing, by finishing exactly in the 10th place in the men's cross-country event.

Gymnastics

Trampoline

Portugal qualified four athletes in four events, based on the results at the 2014 European Trampoline Championships.

Gymnastics trampoline event results^{[41][42][43][44][45][46]}

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Score	Rank	Score	Rank
Diogo Ganchinho	Men's individual	104.445	7 Q	13.245	6
Ricardo Santos	Men's individual	103.365	10	Did not advance
Diogo Ganchinho Ricardo Santos	Men's synchronized	47.800	11	Did not advance
Ana Rente	Women's individual	95.885	11	Did not advance
Beatriz Martins	Women's individual	93.575	15	Did not advance
Ana Rente Beatriz Martins	Women's synchronized	83.000	6 Q	44.500

Judo

Portugal qualified 14 athletes in 12 events, based on the International Judo Federation world ranking list announced on 2 March 2015.

Men

Men's judo event results

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage	Gold/Bronze match	Rank
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Nuno Carvalho	–60 kg	N/A	Petrikov (CZE) L 0s3–0	Did not advance					17–32
Diogo César	–66 kg	N/A	Bruno (ITA) W 100s1–0	Pulyaev (RUS) L 0s3–100s1	Did not advance				9–16
Sergiu Oleinic		N/A	Krassas (CYP) W 100–0s2	Oates (GBR) W 1s2–0s1	Shikhalizada (AZE) W 100s1–0	Khan-Magomedov (RUS) L 0s2–100s1	N/A	Seidl (GER) L 0–12s2	5
André Alves	–73 kg	Bye	Fedosejenkovs (LAT) W 100s2–0s3	Draksić (SLO) L 0s3–1s1	Did not advance				9–16
Jorge Fernandes		Bye	Laamanen (FIN) W 1s1–0	Muki (ISR) L 0s1–100	Did not advance				9–16
Carlos Luz	–81 kg	Bye	Livesey (GBR) W 11s3–0s1	Nifontov (RUS) L 0s2–0s1	Did not advance				9–16
Diogo Lima		Bye	Stsiashenka (BLR) L 1s2–1s2	Did not advance					17–32
Célio Dias	–90 kg	Bye	Gurbanov (AZE) L 0–101	Did not advance					17–32
Jorge Fonseca	–100 kg	N/A	Minaskin (EST) W 2s2–0s2	Gasimov (AZE) W 101s3–0s2	Joergensen (DEN) W 100–0s2	Grol (NED) L 10s2–0s3	N/A	Nikiforov (BEL) L 0s1–100	5
André Alves Célio Dias Jorge Fonseca Carlos Luz Sergiu Oleinic	Team	N/A		Bye	France (FRA)

Women

Women's judo event results

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage	Gold/Bronze match	Rank
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Leandra Freitas	–48 kg	Dumitru (ROU) W 1s3–0	Dolgova (RUS) L 0s2–101s1	Did not advance				9–16
Joana Ramos	–52 kg	Krasniqi (KOS) L 0s1–0	Did not advance					17–32
Telma Monteiro	–57 kg	Bye	Rogić (SRB) W 0s2–0s3 GS	Verhagen (NED) W 0s1–0s2	Pavia (FRA) W 11s3–0s2	N/A	Karakas (HUN) W 110–0
Ana Cachola	–63 kg	Labazina (RUS) W 100–0	Schlesinger (GBR) W 1s2–0s1	Agbegnenou (FRA) L 0–101	N/A	Unterwurzacher (AUT) W 3s1–0	Gerbi (ISR) L 0–1s1	5
Yahima Ramirez	–78 kg	Pogorzelec (POL) L 0s3–0s2	Did not advance					17–32

Karate

Portugal qualified one athlete, based on the results at the 2015 European Karate Championships.

Karate event results^[47]

Athlete	Event	Elimination round					Semifinals	Gold/Bronze match	Rank
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Points	Place	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Filipe Reis	Men's kumite +84 kg	Bitević (SRB) L 1–2	Horne (GER) L 0–6	Sheppard (NED) L 0–4	0	4	Did not advance		8

Shooting

Portugal qualified four athletes in six events, based on the rankings announced by the European Shooting Confederation.

Shooting event results^{[48][49][50][51][52][53]}

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Semifinals		Final
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
João Azevedo	Men's trap	119	14	Did not advance
João Costa	Men's 10 m air pistol	583	3 Q	N/A		201.5
	Men's 50 m pistol	550	14	N/A		Did not advance
José Faria	Men's trap	116	24	Did not advance
Joana Castelão	Women's 10 m air pistol	375	25	N/A		Did not advance
	Women's 25 m pistol	561	27	Did not advance
João Costa Joana Castelão	Mixed 10 m air pistol	473	9	Did not advance

Swimming

Portugal has qualified for nine individual quota places,^[2] based on a ranking list announced by the Ligue Européenne de Natation, accounting the results per NOC from the past three European Junior Swimming Championships.

Table tennis

Portugal qualified two teams of three players (one team per gender) based on the results at the 2014 European Table Tennis Championships. Two players from each team also competed in the respective singles event.

Table tennis event results^{[54][55][56][57]}

Athlete	Event	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Gold or Bronze medal match	Rank
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Tiago Apolónia	Men's singles	Bye	Duran (ESP) W 4–2	Karlsson (SWE) W 4–2	Samsonov (BLR) L 0–4	Did not advance		5–8
Marcos Freitas		Bye	Pistej (SVK) W 4–0	Gerell (SWE) W 4–2	Drinkhall (GBR) L 1–4	Did not advance		5–8
Tiago Apolónia Marcos Freitas João Geraldo	Men's team	Romania (ROU) W 3–1	N/A		Poland (POL) W 3–0	Austria (AUT) W 3–2	France (FRA) W 3–0
Yu Fu	Women's singles	Bye	Odorova (SVK) L 1–4	Did not advance				17–32
Leila Oliveira		Madarasz (HUN) L 3–4	Did not advance					33–47
Yu Fu Ana Neves Leila Oliveira	Women's team	Russia (RUS) L 1–3	N/A		Did not advance			9

Taekwondo

Portugal qualified four athletes, based on the Olympic Ranking list announced by the World Taekwondo Federation on 31 March 2015.

Taekwondo event results^{[58][59][60][61]}

Athlete	Event	Preliminary round	Quarterfinals	Repechage	Semifinals	Gold or Bronze medal match	Rank
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Rui Bragança	Men's −58 kg	Sezer (TUR) W 12–0 PTG	Gladović (SRB) W 13–7 PTF	—	Ketbi (BEL) W 11–4 PTF	Tortosa Cabrera (ESP) W 6–5 PTF
Mário Silva	Men's −68 kg	Pilavakis (CYP) W 12–6 PTF	Robak (POL) L 2–10 PTF	Tazegül (TUR) L 6–12 PTF	—	Did not advance	7
Júlio Ferreira	Men's −80 kg	Martínez Garcia (ESP) W 10–4 PTF	Cook (MDA) W 8–7 GDP	—	Beigi Harchegani (AZE) L 2–6 PTF	Ordemann (NOR) W 6–5 GDP
Joana Cunha	Women's −57 kg	Glasnović (SWE) L 0–1 PTF	Did not advance				11

Triathlon

Portugal qualified five athletes in two events, based on the European Triathlon Union 2014 Points List rankings on 31 December 2014.^[62][63][64]

Triathlon results^[65][66]

Athlete	Event	Swim (1.5 km)	Trans 1	Bike (40 km)	Trans 2	Run (10 km)	Total Time	Rank
Pedro Palma	Men's	20:21	0:43	1:00:19	0:25	32:25	1:54:13	34
João Pereira		19:28	0:42	57:42	0:24	31:30	1:49:46	8
João Silva		19:30	0:43	57:40	0:24	30:25	1:48:42
Ana Ramos	Women's	23:10	0:58	—	—	—	—	Lap
Melanie Santos		20:45	0:49	1:06:23	0:28	39:46	2:08:11	25

Wrestling

Portugal qualified five athletes, based on the results at the 2014 European Wrestling Championships.

Freestyle

Freestyle wrestling event results^[67][68]

Athlete	Event	Qualification	1/8 Finals	Quarterfinals	Repechage 1	Repechage 2	Semifinals	Gold/Bronze match	Rank
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Liliana Santos	Women's freestyle 48 kg	Bye	Stadnyk (AZE) L 1–4 SP	—	Bye	Sabatie (FRA) L 0–3 PO	Did not advance		13
Vânia Guerreiro	Women's freestyle 53 kg	Bye	Horishna (UKR) L 0–5 VT	Did not advance					16

Greco-Roman

Greco-Roman wrestling event results^[69][70][71]

Athlete	Event	Qualification	1/8 Finals	Quarterfinals	Repechage 1	Repechage 2	Semifinals	Gold/Bronze match	Rank
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
João Carvalho	Men's Greco-Roman 59 kg	Bye	Amoyan (ARM) L 0–3 PO	Did not advance					18
Hugo Passos	Men's Greco-Roman 66 kg	Ugurli (TUR) L 1–3 PP	Did not advance						22
Zurab Bekauri	Men's Greco-Roman 71 kg	Bye	Etlinger (CRO) L 0–5 VB	Did not advance					15

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