Diogo Ferreira (athlete)

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Diogo Ferreira
Personal information
Full nameDiogo Miguel Pacheco Ferreira [1]
Born (1990-07-30) 30 July 1990 (age 35)
Queluz, Portugal
Education Universidade Lusófona [2]
Height1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) [3]
Weight77 kg (170 lb)
Sport
Sport Athletics
Event
Pole vault
Club Benfica
Coached byPedro Pinto

Diogo Miguel Pacheco Ferreira (born 30 July 1990 in Queluz) is a Portuguese athlete specialising in the pole vault. [4] He won the gold medal at the 2017 Summer Universiade. In addition, he represented his country at the 2017 World Championships without clearing any height.

His personal bests in the event are 5.71 metres outdoors (Lisbon 2017) and 5.60 metres indoors (Potsdam 2015) [5] The former is the current national record.

International competitions

YearCompetitionVenuePositionNotes
Representing Flag of Portugal (official).svg  Portugal
2009 European Junior Championships Novi Sad, Serbia15th (q)4.70 m
2010 Ibero-American Championships San Fernando, Spain 7th 5.05 m
2011 European U23 Championships Ostrava, Czech Republic16th (q) 4.95 m
2014 European Championships Zürich, Switzerland 11th (q) 5.50 m 1
2015 European Indoor Championships Prague, Czech Republic18th (q) 5.25 m
Universiade Gwangju, South Korea11th (q) 5.20 m 1
2016 European Championships Amsterdam, Netherlands19th (q) 5.35 m
2017 World Championships London, United Kingdom NM
Universiade Taipei, Taiwan1st 5.55 m
2018 European Championships Berlin, Germany25th (q) 5.36 m

1No mark in the final

References

  1. "Diogo Ferreira | Estatísticas do Atletismo Português, por Manuel Arons de Carvalho". atletismo-estatistica.pt. Retrieved 5 September 2017.
  2. "Taipei 2017 Summer Universiade (Athletics) Athlete Profile : FERREIRA Diogo". data.2017.gov.taipei. Retrieved 5 September 2017.
  3. "European Athletics - Athlete: Diogo Ferreira". european-athletics.org. Retrieved 5 September 2017.
  4. Diogo Ferreira at World Athletics OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
  5. "Profile of Diogo FERREIRA". All-Athletics.com. Retrieved 5 September 2017.