Saturday’s day for the Portuguese mission at the Mediterranean Games in Oran 2022 was marked by six medals, four of them gold, and a ‘jump’ to ninth place in the medallion.
To reach 18 medals, six golds, seven silvers and five bronzes, Portugal took a ‘jump’ with a ‘wonderful’ sextet that played the national anthem four times, three at the Olympic Stadium in Oran and once in the complex’s swimming pool .
João Coelho and Cátia Azevedo ‘shone’ in the 400-meter track, while Camila Rebelo played “A Portuguesa” in the pool in the 200-meter backstroke, with Leandro Ramos, in the javelin throw, adding a new first place.
On the road, the cyclist Daniela Campos got a second place that motivates her for the European Under-23 Championship in Anadia, already this month, and Diogo Ribeiro, who had won gold in the 50 meter backstroke, was second in the 100 meter of the same slope.
With this, Portugal is ninth in the medal table and is already close to the 24 medals of Tarragona 2018, in which it ‘only’ won three golds, and with a minor mission -there are 159, below the 221 of Spain four years ago -.
In Algeria, Portugal has achieved podium finishes, especially in athletics and swimming, but table tennis has achieved four in four tournaments, individual, male and female, and in teams of each gender, and cycling has two.
The good news continued in shooting, in which Maria Inês Barros dominated the classification in the Olympic pit, with the best record of the day, while in shooting, with an air pistol, Joana Castelão was seventh in the final.
Still in the pool, Tamila Holub swam the 800-meter freestyle farther than she could, in fifth place, Ana Rodrigues was sixth in the 100-meter breaststroke, Francisca Martins seventh in the 200-meter freestyle, with Alexis Santos (ninth) and Francisco Fifths (13th). ) with no finishes in the 50 breaststroke.
In the final of the 50 butterfly, Ana Guedes was sixth and Mariana Cunha eighth.
In cycling, and in addition to Vera Vilaça’s 13th and Beatriz Roxo’s 14th, in the same group in which Daniela Campos arrived, Luís Gomes was 19th in the men’s race, marked by a cut and a fall, with Rafael Reis in the 27th, Fábio Costa in 46th, Fábio Fernandes in 49th and Francisco Campos in 51st.
The women’s handball went to the semifinals by beating North Macedonia (19-17), guaranteeing the dispute for the medals.
On the other hand, double elimination with Turkey in under-23 basketball 3×3, in the quarterfinals, losing the men 18-14 and the women 13-10.
Far from the medals in athletics, but close to the podium, were Patrícia Silva, fourth in the 800 meters, and Evelise Veiga, bronze in the long jump, sixth in triple.
Today several athletics athletes get into action, with Lorène Bazolo and Rosalina Santos in the 200 meters, José Carlos Pinto in the 800 meters and Mariana Machado, absent from the 5,000, present in the 1,500 meters, among others.
In swimming, Camila Rebelo returns in the 50 meter backstroke, with Rafaela Azevedo, João Costa and Alexis Santos in the same event, Ana Rodrigues and Francisca Martins compete in the 100 meter freestyle and Gabriel Lopes and Alexis Santos in the 200 freestyle, with relays . 4 × 200 meters freestyle, in both genders.
In shooting with hunting weapons, Ana Rita Rodrigues, Maria Inês Barros, the Olympic athlete João Paulo Azevedo and José Bruno Faria are also fighting for medals.
*** Lusa traveled at the invitation of the COP ***
Source: Observadora
