María Teresa Portela Rivas (born 5 May 1982) is a Spanish

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who has competed since the early 2000s. Portela competed in six

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, earning a silver medal on her sixth games at the

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in Women's K-1 200 m. Previously she finished fourth on one occasion (

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: Women's K-1 200 m) and fifth on three occasions (

2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 6 ...

: K-2 500 m, K-4 500 m;

2008 File:2008 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Lehman Brothers went bankrupt following the Subprime mortgage crisis; Cyclone Nargis killed more than 138,000 in Myanmar; A scene from the opening ceremony of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing; ...

: K-4 500 m). She won 15 medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with 2 golds (K-1 200 m:

2002 File:2002 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 2002 Winter Olympics are held in Salt Lake City; Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and her daughter Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon die; East Timor gains East Timor independence, indepe ...

2005 File:2005 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf of Mexico; the Funeral of Pope John Paul II is held in Vatican City; "Me at the zoo", the first video ever to be uploaded to YouTube; Eris was discovered in ...

), 6 silvers (K-1 200 m:

2003 File:2003 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The crew of STS-107 perished when the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated during reentry into Earth's atmosphere; SARS became an epidemic in China, and was a precursor to SARS-CoV-2; A des ...

, K-2 200 m: 2003, 2005; K-4 200 m:

2001 The September 11 attacks against the United States by Al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror, were a defining event of 2001. The United States led a Participants in ...

, 2002, 2003) and 7 bronzes (K-4 200 m: 2005, K-4 500 m: 2001, 2002, 2003,

2009 File:2009 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: The vertical stabilizer of Air France Flight 447 is pulled out from the Atlantic Ocean; Barack Obama becomes the first African American to become President of the United States; 2009 Iran ...

, K-1 200 m: 2015,

2019 File:2019 collage v1.png, From top left, clockwise: Hong Kong protests turn to widespread riots and civil disobedience; House of Representatives votes to adopt articles of impeachment against Donald Trump; CRISPR gene editing first used to experim ...

).Tiempo de hoy - 1144-1152 p108 2004 -"... k-4, se espera mucho del equipo formado por Beatriz Marchena, Teresa Portela, María José García y Belén Sánchez. "

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* * 1982 births Living people Spanish female canoeists Olympic canoeists of Spain Olympic medalists in canoeing Olympic silver medalists for Spain Canoeists at the 2000 Summer Olympics Canoeists at the 2004 Summer Olympics Canoeists at the 2008 Summer Olympics Canoeists at the 2012 Summer Olympics Canoeists at the 2016 Summer Olympics Canoeists at the 2020 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medalists in kayak People from Cangas, Pontevedra Sportspeople from the Province of Pontevedra Mediterranean Games gold medalists for Spain Mediterranean Games silver medalists for Spain Mediterranean Games medalists in canoeing Competitors at the 2005 Mediterranean Games Competitors at the 2018 Mediterranean Games Castelao Medal recipients {{Spain-canoe-bio-stub