José Enrique Porto Lareo (born 21 October 1977) is a Spanish vision-impaired

track cyclist Track cycling is a bicycle racing sport usually held on specially built banked tracks or velodromes using purpose-designed track bicycles. History Track cycling has been around since at least 1870. When track cycling was in its infancy, it wa ...

and Paralympian.

Career

At the London

2012 Summer Paralympics The 2012 Summer Paralympics, branded as the London 2012 Paralympic Games, were an international Multi-sport event, multi-sport parasports event held from 29 August to 9 September 2012 in London, England, United Kingdom. They were the 14th Sum ...

, Porto teamed with sighted pilot

José Antonio Villanueva José Antonio Villanueva Trinidad (born 3 February 1979 in Madrid) is a Spanish former track cyclist. Villanueva specialised in the sprint disciplines, where at world championships level he was won a silver medal in keirin and a bronze and a si ...

in the tandem cycling events, where the pair won the silver medal in the Men's 1 km Time Trial and the bronze medal in the Men's Sprint. At the

2016 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships The 2016 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships were the World Championships for track cycling where athletes with a physical disability. The Championships took place at the Montichiari Velodrome in Montichiari, Italy from 17 to 20 March 2016. ...

, in

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, Italy, Porto won a bronze medal in the Sprint event.

Awards

In 2013, in recognition of his dedication to sport and his achievements at the 2012 Paralympics, Porto was awarded the silver Spanish

Royal Order of Sports Merit The Royal Order of Sports Merit () is a Spanish civil order of merit established in 18 June 1982. The order is indented to recognise distinguished service in sports, in teaching physical education, or the management, organisation, promotion and d ...

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