Portugal
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competed at the
1956 Summer Olympics in
Melbourne
Melbourne ( ; Boonwurrung/Woiwurrung: ''Narrm'' or ''Naarm'') is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Its name generally refers to a met ...
,
Australia and
Stockholm,
Sweden (
equestrian events).
A total delegation of twelve competitors (five in Melbourne, seven in Stockholm) participated in two sports, however no medals were conquered by this nation.
Results by event
Equestrian
The word equestrian is a reference to equestrianism, or horseback riding, derived from Latin ' and ', "horse".
Horseback riding (or Riding in British English)
Examples of this are:
* Equestrian sports
*Equestrian order, one of the upper classes i ...
Men's Individual Dressage:
*
António Pereira de Almeida — 12th (743 marks)
Men's Individual Eventing:
* Álvaro Sabbo — eliminated
*
Fernando Marques Cavaleiro — 34th (−657,24 points)
*
Joaquim Duarte Silva — 29th (−349,55 points)
Men's Team Eventing:
* Álvaro Sabbo,
Fernando Marques Cavaleiro and
Joaquim Duarte Silva — eliminated
Men's Individual Jumping:
*
Henrique Alves Calado — 7th (16 marks)
*
João Azevedo — eliminated
*
Rodrigo da Silveira — eliminated
Men's Team Jumping:
*
Henrique Alves Calado,
João Azevedo and
Rodrigo da Silveira — 11th - 20th
Sailing
Sailing employs the wind—acting on sails, wingsails or kites—to propel a craft on the surface of the ''water'' (sailing ship, sailboat, raft, windsurfer, or kitesurfer), on ''ice'' (iceboat) or on ''land'' (land yacht) over a chosen cou ...
Men's Dragon:
*
Bernardo Mendes de Almeida (helm),
Carlos Rogenmoser Lourenço and
Serge Marquis — 13th (2002 points)
Men's Star:
*
Duarte de Almeida Bello (helm) and
José Bustorff Silva — 4th (3825 points)
Officials
* Fernando Pais (chief of mission)
References
Official Olympic Reports
Nations at the 1956 Summer Olympics
1956
Events
January
* January 1 – The Anglo-Egyptian Condominium ends in Sudan.
* January 8 – Operation Auca: Five U.S. evangelical Christian missionaries, Nate Saint, Roger Youderian, Ed McCully, Jim Elliot and Pete Fleming, ar ...
1956 in Portuguese sport
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