Sporting CP (athletics)

Athletics is, along with Football, the sport that has always been practiced at Sporting Clube de Portugal.

Sporting CP
Full nameSporting Clube de Portugal
Short nameSporting
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
Active sport sections of Sporting CP
AikidoAthleticsArchery
Auto racingBasketballBeach soccer
BilliardsBoxingCanoeing
CapoeiraChessEquestrianism
eSportsFootball
(Men's)		Football
(Women's)
FutsalGolfGymnastics
HandballJudoKarate
KickboxingKrav magaPadel Tennis
PaintballRoad cyclingRoller hockey
RowingRugby unionShooting
Sport fishingSwimmingTable tennis
TaekwondoTennisTriathlon
VolleyballWater polo

Having been the most represented club in the Olympic Games of Athens, this section of the club, headed many years by Prof. Mário Moniz Pereira, who died in 2016, is one of the most decorated Portuguese athletics teams and is responsible for much of the titles won by the club throughout its 100 years of history. In the year 2011 began the annual Sporting race.[2]

Honours (Men's)

Domestic competitions
  • 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
  • Portuguese Cross Country Championship:
  • Winners (47): 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
  • Portuguese Cross Country mid-race Championship:
  • Winners (8): 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012
  • Portuguese Men's Athletics Cup
  • Winners (4): 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000

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

Honours (Women's)

Domestic competitions
  • 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
  • Portuguese Cross Country Championship:
  • Winners (6): 1972, 1973, 1974, 2014, 2017, 2018
  • Portuguese Women's Athletics Cup
  • Winners (5): 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000

International competitions
  • Winners (2): 2016, 2018

Technical staff

[3]

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

References
  1. "Complexo Alvalade XXI". wikimapia.org (in Portuguese and English).
  2. "Vitórias leoninas na Corrida do Sporting" (in Portuguese). Atleta-Digital. 14 Oct 2017. Retrieved 7 July 2017.
  3. "Team Technical Staff". Sporting.pt. Retrieved 2010-08-09.

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