Sporting CP's athletics department is, along with football's, a department that has been in continuous operation at Sporting Clube de Portugal since the foundation of the sports club in 1906.[2][3]

Sporting CP
Full nameSporting Clube de Portugal
Founded1910 (1910)
GroundComplexo Alvalade XXI,[1]
LocationLisbon
Track(s)Estádio Universitário de Lisboa
League(s)Portuguese Men's Athletics League
Portuguese Women's Athletics League
Manager
Carlos Lopes
ColorsGreen / White
WebsiteAthleticsSporting

Having been the most represented club in the Olympic Games, this section of the sports club, headed many decades by athletics coach Mário Moniz Pereira (1921 – 2016), is one of the most decorated Portuguese athletics teams and is responsible for much of the titles won by the sports club throughout its history. Sporting Portugal's athletics department long-distance runner Carlos Lopes won the marathon at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles for Portugal, becoming Portugal's first Olympic gold medalist ever.[4] In the 1976 Summer Olympics, he had already won the first Olympic silver medal in the history of Portuguese sports, competing in the men's 10,000 metres.[5]

The annual Sporting running race, established in 2011, is organized by the club[6][7][8] as well as the international athletics meeting Meeting de Atletismo Professor Moniz Pereira.[9]

Honours (Men's)

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Domestic competitions

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  • Winners (48): 1941, 1943, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1950, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1981, 1985, 1987, 1988, 1995, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010
  • Winners (17): 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2017
  • Winners (49): 1912, 1928, 1930, 1931, 1935, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1952, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1993, 1995, 1997, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021
  • Winners (8): 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012
  • Portuguese Men's Athletics Cup
  • Winners (4): 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000

International competitions

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  • Winners (1): 2000
  • Runners-up (3): 2007, 2009, 2010

Copa Iberica

  • Winners (1): 2021

Honours (Women's)

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Domestic competitions

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  • Winners (49): 1945, 1946, 1947, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1987, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018
  • Winners (23): 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 , 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018
  • Winners (8): 1972, 1973, 1974, 2014, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021
  • Winners (7): 2000, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017
  • Portuguese Women's Athletics Cup
  • Winners (5): 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000

International competitions

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  • Winners (2): 2016, 2018

Technical staff

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Name Nat. Job
Carlos Lopes   Manager
Abreu Matos   Coordinator
Anabela Leite   Coach and Youth Academy Director
Nuno Alpiarça   Coach
Armando Aldegalega   Coach
Prof. Bernardo Manuel   Coach
José Fonseca   Coach
Luís Herédio Costa   Coach

Notable past athletes

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References

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  1. ^ "Complexo Alvalade XXI". wikimapia.org (in Portuguese and English).
  2. ^ "Resumo da História do Sporting". Diário de Notícias. Retrieved 2024-02-11.
  3. ^ "Atletismo". www.sporting.pt (in European Portuguese). 2015-05-11. Retrieved 2024-02-11.
  4. ^ "100 Olympic Tidbits: Portugal's First Gold Medalist". Yahoo News. 2012-07-21. Retrieved 2023-08-15.
  5. ^ "Visão | Há 40 anos: a medalha olímpica que mudou Portugal". Visão (in European Portuguese). 2016-07-26. Retrieved 2023-10-31.
  6. ^ "Corrida Sporting: Jacinto Gaspar e Verónica José vencem em Alvalade". www.record.pt (in European Portuguese). Retrieved 2023-09-04.
  7. ^ "Vitórias leoninas na Corrida do Sporting" (in Portuguese). Atleta-Digital. 14 Oct 2017. Retrieved 7 July 2017.
  8. ^ Consulting, HMS Sports. "Corrida Sporting | 15 de Outubro, 2023". Corrida Sporting (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2023-09-04.
  9. ^ "Pombal acolherá Meeting de Atletismo Professor Moniz Pereira até 2025". Jornal de Leiria (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2024-01-31.
  10. ^ "Team Technical Staff". Sporting.pt. Retrieved 2010-08-09.

[1] Sporting CP Official Website