Athletics at the 2009 Lusophony Games
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The Athletics competition at the 2009 Lusophony Games
2009 Lusophony Games
The 2009 Lusophony Games was the 2nd Lusophony Games , a multi-sport event for delegations representing Portuguese-speaking National Olympic committees.It took place in Lisbon, Portugal, from 11 to 19 July 2009...

was held in the Estádio Universitário de Lisboa
Estádio Universitário de Lisboa
Estádio Universitário de Lisboa is a multi-use stadium in Lisbon, Portugal. It is used as the home stadium of Portugal national rugby union team matches. The capacity of the stadium is 8,000 spectators. It also hosted the 1994 World Junior Championships in Athletics....

 on July 12, July 13 and July 19, 2009.

Men's

100 m   Francis Obikwelu
Francis Obikwelu
Francis Obiorah Obikwelu, born 22 November 1978 in Nigeria and a Portuguese citizen since 2001, is a sprint athlete specializing in 100 metres and 200 metres. He holds the record for the fastest time in the 100 m set by a European competitor with a time of 9.86 seconds...

 
10.18   Jose Carlos Moreira
José Carlos Moreira
José Carlos Moreira is a Brazilian sprinter who specializes in the 100 metres. His personal best time is 10.16 seconds, achieved in June 2007 in Cochabamba....

 
10.33   Jorge Celio Sena  10.35 (DQ)
200 m   Arnaldo Abrantes
Arnaldo Abrantes
Arnaldo Luís Isaías Abrantes , is a Portuguese track and field sprinter, specializing in the distances of 100 metres and 200 metres. He also competes in the 4×100 metres relay. His father, Arnaldo Abrantes Sr., was also a sprinter.-Career:He began running at the Núcleo Desportivo Juvenil do...

 
20.64 w   Bruno de Barros
Bruno de Barros
Bruno de Barros is a Brazilian sprinter who specializes in the 200 metres.He was born in Maceió, and resides in São Bernardo. Barros represented Brazil at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. He competed in the 4x100 metres relay together with José Carlos Moreira, Vicente de Lima and Sandro Viana...

 
20.78 w (DQ)   Hugo Sousa
Hugo Sousa
Hugo Filipe Gonçalves Martins de Sousa is a Portuguese footballer who plays for FC Braşov in Romania, as a central defender.-Football career:Sousa joined F.C. Porto's youth system in 2003, aged 11...

 
20.90 w
400 m   Eduardo Vasconcelos  46.32   João Pedro Ferreira  47.00   Luis Ambrosio  47.14
800 m   Lutimar Paes  1.48.89   Rui Silva
Rui Silva
Rui Silva is a Portuguese athlete, who represents Sporting Clube de Portugal. As a distance runner, he specializes at the 1500 and 3000 m events, although he has at times run the 800 metres as well. He is the national champion at 1500 m...

 
1.49.03   Renato Silva  1.49.68
1500 m   Chaminda Wijekoon  3.48.15   Hélio Gomes  3.48.91   Hudson de Souza
Hudson de Souza
Hudson Santos de Souza is a Brazilian middle distance runner who competes mostly over 1500 metres. He has broken a number of South American records in middle-distance events....

 
3.49.26
5000 m   Manuel Damião  14.34.69   Eduardo Mbengani  14.35.76   Ubiratan Santos  14.51.73
10000 m road   Rui Pedro Silva
Rui Pedro Silva
Rui Pedro Silva is a Portuguese athlete specialized in middle and long distance running.- Reference :...

 
30.14   Daniel Silva  30.30   Ricardo Ribas  30.46
110 m hurdles   Anselmo de Silva  13.97   Luis Sá  14.22   Rasul Dabo  14.35
400 m hurdles   Raphael Fernandes
Raphael Fernandes
Raphael Fernandes is a Brazilian track and field athlete who competes in the 400 metres hurdles. His personal best for the event is 49.29 seconds, set in 2007...

 
50.61   João Santos Neto  51.09   Kurt Couto  51.10
3000 m s'chase
Steeplechase (athletics)
The steeplechase is an obstacle race in athletics, which derives its name from the steeplechase in horse racing.-Rules:The length of the race is usually 3000 m; junior events are 2000 m, as women's events formerly were. The circuit has four ordinary barriers and one water jump. Over 3000 m, each...

  Alberto Paulo
Alberto Paulo
Alberto Paulo is a Portuguese track and field athlete. He mainly competes in the 3000 metres steeplechase.-Achievements:-References:...

 
8.38.48   Pedro Ribeiro
Pedro Ribeiro
Pedro Ribeiro may refer to:*Pedro Júlio Marques Ribeiro, Portuguese footballer *Pedro Manuel Mendes Ribeiro, Portuguese footballer...

 
8.39.90   Fernando Fernandes  9.32.90
High jump
High jump
The high jump is a track and field athletics event in which competitors must jump over a horizontal bar placed at measured heights without the aid of certain devices in its modern most practiced format; auxiliary weights and mounds have been used for assistance; rules have changed over the years....

  Guilherme Cobbo  2.16   Paulo Gonçalves  2.12   Ulika Bravo da Costa  2.06
Long jump
Long jump
The long jump is a track and field event in which athletes combine speed, strength, and agility in an attempt to leap as far as possible from a take off point...

  Marcos Chuva  8.09 w   Marcos Caldeira  7.83 w   Rogério Bispo
Rogério Bispo
Rogério Bispo is a Brazilian long jumper.He finished eleventh at the 2004 World Junior Championships and at the 2007 Pan American Games...

 
7.78 w
Triple jump
Triple jump
The triple jump is a track and field sport, similar to the long jump, but involving a “hop, bound and jump” routine, whereby the competitor runs down the track and performs a hop, a bound and then a jump into the sand pit.The triple jump has its origins in the Ancient Olympics and has been a...

  Nelson Évora
Nelson Évora
Nelson Évora is a Portuguese athlete, of Cape Verdean descent, who specializes in the triple jump and long jump. He is the current triple jump olympic and former world champion. Évora currently competes for Portuguese sports club S.L. Benfica...

 
17.15   Jefferson Sabino
Jefferson Sabino
Jefferson Sabino is a Brazilian triple jumper.He finished sixth at the 2005 Summer Universiade and fourth at the 2007 Pan American Games. He also competed at the 2006 World Indoor Championships and the 2007 World Championships without reaching the final.His personal best jump is 17.22 metres,...

 
16.84   Marcos Caldeira  16.41 w
Shot put
Shot put
The shot put is a track and field event involving "putting" a heavy metal ball—the shot—as far as possible. It is common to use the term "shot put" to refer to both the shot itself and to the putting action....

  Marco Fortes
Marco Fortes
Marco Fortes is a male shot putter from Portugal. His personal best throw is 20.69 meters, achieved in June at the 2010 Ibero-American Championships in San Fernando, Spain...

 
19.74   Gustavo Mendonça
Gustavo Mendonca
Gustavo H. Mendonça is a Senior Concept Artist, Matte Painter, Illustrator and Story Board Artist working in the entertainment industry.-Early Life and Work:...

 
17.89   Ronald Julião  17.63
4 x 100 m
4 x 100 metres relay
The 4 × 100 metres relay or sprint relay is an athletics track event run in lanes over one lap of the track with four runners completing 100 metres each. The first runners begin in the same stagger as for the individual 400 m race...

39.30 39.31 40.58
4 x 400 m
4 x 400 metres relay
The 4 x 400 meters relay or long relay is an athletics track event in which teams comprise four runners who each complete 400 meters or one lap. It is traditionally the final event of a track meet. At top class events, the first 500 meters is run in lanes...

3.07.76 3.13.10 3.21.70

Women's

100 m   Lucimar de Moura
Lucimar de Moura
Lucimar Aparecida de Moura is a female track and field athlete from Brazil, who competes in the sprint events...

 
11.30   Sónia Tavares  11.39   Carla Tavares  11.52
200 m   Sónia Tavares  23.64 w   Evelyn Santos  23.79 w   Vanda Gomes  23.91 w
400 m   Jailma de Lima  52.63   Emmily Pinheiro  53.29   Chandrika Mudiyanselage  53.41
800 m   Sandra Teixeira  2.06.42   Christiane dos Santos  2.07.14   Adimilda de Sousa  2.07.15
1500 m   Jessica Augusto
Jessica Augusto
Jéssica Augusto is a Portuguese runner who competes in cross country, road running and in middle-distance and long-distance track events....

 
4.15.86   Sabine Heitling  4.17.68   Christiane dos Santos  4.21.45
5000 m   Sara Moreira
Sara Moreira
Sara Moreira is a Portuguese female long-distance runner who specializes in the 3000 metres steeplechase and 5000 metres. She reached finals at the World Championships in Athletics in 2007 and 2009. She represented Portugal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics...

 
15.45.05   Leonor Carneiro  16.15.40   Fabiana Silva  16.21.79
10 km road   Fernanda Ribeiro
Fernanda Ribeiro
Maria Fernanda Moreira Ribeiro, GCIH , is a long-distance runner, born in Penafiel, Portugal. She achieved the top of her career in the 1996 Summer Olympics where she won the women's 10,000 m gold medal, giving Portugal their 3rd Olympic gold , and establishing a new Olympic record - 31:01.63.-...

 
32.49   Marisa Barros
Marisa Barros
Elisa Marisa Branco Barros Rodrigues is a female long-distance runner from Portugal who specialises in marathon running. She ran for her country at the 2008 Summer Olympics and was sixth at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics...

 
33.14   Adriana Aparecida da Silva
Adriana Aparecida da Silva
Adriana Aparecida da Silva is a Brazilian long-distance runner who competes in half marathons and marathons. Her bests for the events are 1:13:16 hours and 2:32:30 hours, respectively. She has represented her country at World Championship-level both on the roads and in cross country...

 
35.36
100 m hurdles   Fabiana Morães  13.32   Mónica Lopes  13.66   Gisele Albuquerque  13.73
400 m hurdles   Lucimar Teodoro
Lucimar Teodoro
Lucimar Teodoro is a Brazilian track and field athlete who specialises in the 400 metres sprint and the 400 metres hurdles.Teodoro was born in Guararapes, São Paulo and began competing in senior athletics in 2001. She attended her first Olympics at the 2004 Athens Games as part of the 4×400 metres...

 
56.69 (DQ)   Patricia Lopes  57.05   Luciana França  58.52 (DQ)
High jump
High jump
The high jump is a track and field athletics event in which competitors must jump over a horizontal bar placed at measured heights without the aid of certain devices in its modern most practiced format; auxiliary weights and mounds have been used for assistance; rules have changed over the years....

  Lucimara Silva  1,81m (DQ)   Mónica Freitas  1,78m   Marisa Anselmo  1,74m
Triple jump
Triple jump
The triple jump is a track and field sport, similar to the long jump, but involving a “hop, bound and jump” routine, whereby the competitor runs down the track and performs a hop, a bound and then a jump into the sand pit.The triple jump has its origins in the Ancient Olympics and has been a...

  Patricia Mamona
Patrícia Mamona
Patrícia Mamona is a Portuguese triple jumper.-Achievements:-References:...

 
13,79m   Fernanda Gonçalves  13,41m (DQ)   Tânia Silva  13,23m
Long jump
Long jump
The long jump is a track and field event in which athletes combine speed, strength, and agility in an attempt to leap as far as possible from a take off point...

  Naide Gomes
Naide Gomes
Enezaide do Rosário da Vera Cruz Gomes, OIH, is a Portuguese heptathlete, born in São Tomé and Príncipe. She is also a top-class competitor in the long jump, and she competed in 100 metres hurdles at the 2000 Summer Olympics...

 
6,74m w   Keila Costa
Keila Costa
Keila da Silva Costa is a Brazilian long jumper and triple jumper. She has competed in two Olympic Games, 2004 and 2008, and has reached the final round both there and in World Championships and World Indoor Championships. She is the South American record holder in triple jump with 14.57 metres,...

 
6,71m w   Fernanda Gonçalves  6,20m (DQ)
Shot put
Shot put
The shot put is a track and field event involving "putting" a heavy metal ball—the shot—as far as possible. It is common to use the term "shot put" to refer to both the shot itself and to the putting action....

  Elisangela Adriano
Elisângela Adriano
Elisângela Maria Adriano is a Brazilian shot putter and discus thrower, whose personal best put is 19.30 metres, achieved in July 2001 in Tunja. Her personal best discus throw is 61.96 metres, achieved in May 1998 in São Leopoldo. In 1999 she was suspended by the IAAF for a two-year period, but...

 
17,02m   Andrea Britto  16,26m   Maria Antónia Borges  15,24m
4 x 100 m
4 x 100 metres relay
The 4 × 100 metres relay or sprint relay is an athletics track event run in lanes over one lap of the track with four runners completing 100 metres each. The first runners begin in the same stagger as for the individual 400 m race...

44.08 45.05 - -
4 x 400 m
4 x 400 metres relay
The 4 x 400 meters relay or long relay is an athletics track event in which teams comprise four runners who each complete 400 meters or one lap. It is traditionally the final event of a track meet. At top class events, the first 500 meters is run in lanes...

3.34.16 3.37.90 4.06.14

Medal table

1 15 17 7 39
2 15 14 16 45
3 1 - 3 4
4 - - 2 2
5= - - 1 1
5= - - 1 1
  • Brazilian medalists Jorge Sena, Bruno Barros, Lucimar Teodoro
    Lucimar Teodoro
    Lucimar Teodoro is a Brazilian track and field athlete who specialises in the 400 metres sprint and the 400 metres hurdles.Teodoro was born in Guararapes, São Paulo and began competing in senior athletics in 2001. She attended her first Olympics at the 2004 Athens Games as part of the 4×400 metres...

    , Luciana França, Lucimara da Silva
    Lucimara da Silva
    Lucimara Silvestre da Silva is a Brazilian track and field athlete who competes in the heptathlon. She represented her country at the 2008 Beijing Olympics and competed at the World Championships in Athletics in 2007...

    , Fernanda Gonçalves, Josiane Tito were all later disqualified from their events as they failed their drug tests after systematic doping by their coach. Triple jump fourth placer Leonardo dos Santos was also disqualified. It is not clear whether medals were reassigned to other athletes.
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