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| Born | 10 January 2007 | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
| Event | Sprint | ||||||||||||||
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| Personal best(s) | 200m: 20.66 (2025) NU20R 400m: 45.78 (2025) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Pedro Afonso (born 10 January 2007) is a Portuguese sprinter. He is the national under-20 record holder for the 200 metres and was a silver medalist at the 2025 European Athletics U20 Championships. [1]
A Sport Lisboa e Benfica athlete based in Lisbon, [2] he ran as part of the Portuguese men's 4 x100 metres sprint relay team which set a new national under-18 record of 41.79 seconds in Huelva in June 2023. [3]
He competed for Portugal in the 200 metres at the 2024 European Athletics U18 Championships in Banská Bystrica, Slovakia, qualified fastest from the preliminary heats with a time of 21.31 (+0.4m/s) although he was unable to complete his semi-final race after suffering an injury. [4] [5] [6]
In June 2025, he set a new Portuguese under-20 record for the 200 metres, and moved into the top-ten of the Portuguese all-time list when he ran 20.78 seconds (wind: 0.0 m/s), breaking the previous record which had stood since 1985 by Luís Barroso. [7] He lowered it further later that month in Mannheim, Germany, running 20.68 seconds. [8] The following month, he won Portuguese under-20 titles in both the 200 metres and the 400 metres with times of 20.66 and 45.78 respectively. [9]
He chose to concentrate only on the 200 metres races at the 2025 European Athletics U20 Championships in Tampere, Finland. [10] He won his preliminary heat in 21.24 seconds (-1.06) and his semi-final in 20.74 seconds (-2.4), before winning the silver medal in the final behind Diego Nappi of Italy in with 20.85 seconds into a strong headwind (-2.9). [11] [12] He also competed in the men’s 4 x 100 metres relay at the championships. [13]
