The Portugal 2020 Championships took place on Saturday 8 August with a completely different model than in previous years, but interesting.
The events took place in five different locations:
Braga, Lisbon (Estádio Universitário), São Miguel (Ponta Delgada), Terceira (Angra do Heroismo) and Madeira (Ribeira Brava and RG3), while the distance of the track championships was, for both men and women, that of the 3.000m walk.
A final ranking was then drawn up.
3.000m track walk women
Lisbon hosted the most interesting race with the first six athletes of the first in the capital who also turned out to be the first six ever.
Yet another victory and tenth title of Champion of Portugal for Ana Cabecina (POR).
The athlete coached by Paulo Murta won in 12:43.01, slightly improving the time (12:48.47) obtained on 11.7.2020 on the Faro track (POR). We recall that the athlete's personal best is 12:17.50, obtained in Huelva (ESP) on 12.6.2014.
Second place to Edna Barros, also coached by Paulo Murta, in 13:01.49.
In Faro, last 11.7.2020 he had obtained the new personal best, dropping slightly below 13:00.00 (12:59.38). Here in Lisbon the recent personal best was only close to finishing the race in 13:01:49 his second time ever over distance.
Third place finally to Ines Henriques in 13:10:81
In the cumulative ranking we find 14 athletes.
3.000m track walk men
Victory and yet another Portuguese Champion title for Joao Vieira (POR) in 11:45.85.
However, the Portuguese multiple champion failed to improve the time of 11:33.61 obtained on 11.7.2020 on the Faro track (POR).
Second place to Rui Coelho (POR), who competed in Braga (POR) is that he finished the test in 12:28:81 which however represents the new personal best. The precedent was obtained on 25.7.2020 in Marinha Grande (POR) with the result of 13:01.00
Third place in Pedro isidro (POR) in 12:41.58
In the cumulative ranking we find 10 athletes.