BELO Francisco

Portugal

Athletics

Date of Birth: 27 Mar 1991

Age: 30

Gender: Male

Place of birth: CASTELO BRANCO

Birth Country:

Portugal

Place of residence : LISBON

Residence Country:

Portugal

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Athletics	Men's Shot Put

Schedule

Change

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
	Olympic Stadium - Shot Put A	Men's Shot Put Qualification - Group A	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

Athlete:

World Athletics Championships

Year	Location	Shot Put
2019	Doha, QAT	Qual. (19.52)
2017	London, GBR	Qual. (19.47)

European Championships

Year	Location	Shot Put
2018	Berlin, GER	Qual. (19.66)

World Athletics Continental Tour - Ten best performances since 2020

Rank	Year	Event	Competition	Location	Result
9	2020	Shot Put	World Athletics Continental Tour	Zagreb, CRO	19.08

World Challenge - Ten best performances since 2020

Rank	Year	Event	Competition	Location	Result
10	2018	Shot Put	World Challenge	Zagreb, CRO	19.06

Legend
SF - Semifinal, QF - Quarterfinal, 1R - 1st Round, Qual. - Qualification, QR - Qualification Round, DNF - Did Not Finish, DNS - Did Not Start, DQ - Disqualified, NM - No Mark, [Relay athlete without time] - Did not run in final

Occupation:

Athlete, Student

Education:

Medicine - University of Lisbon, Portugal

Languages spoken:

English, Portuguese, Spanish

Club name:

SL Benfica [Lisbon, POR]

Coach:

Vladimir Zinchenko [personal], UKR, since 2014

Injuries:

He underwent surgery on his right ankle in December 2017, which left him unable to train during the European winter in 2018. He returned to competition in May 2018. (atletismo-estatistica.pt, 01 Apr 2021; slbenfica.pt, 13 Dec 2017; worldathletics.org, 22 May 2021)

Start:

He took up athletics at age 14, in Castelo Branco, Portugal. (atletismo-estatistica.pt, 01 Apr 2021; dn.pt, 05 Mar 2021)

Reason:

He was overweight as a teenager and people told him to play a sport. His father suggested he compete in shot put. "I hated sport. When the teachers at school sent us to run, I would almost cry. My grades were low in physical education. Every time I had to run some cross-country to get a higher grade I did it, but I was always last, and my classmates were clapping and yelling, 'Here comes the chubby'." (dn.pt, 05 Mar 2021; tribunaexpresso.pt, 04 Aug 2017)

Training:

"Usually I practise three to four hours a day, one hour of warm-up, half an hour of stretching, and one hour of physiotherapy. It is a working day." (ensino.eu, 22 Mar 2021)

General Interest

General
SPORT FOCUS
In 2021 he said he was focused primarily on athletics over starting a career as a doctor. "There will be a time of transition when I will reconcile the two. I am trying not to lose touch with medicine and the postgraduate course I am attending is useful in that sense. The moment will come when I will have to do the common year and then a specialty, but I don't know when that will happen, or what specialty I will choose." He says studying and competing was not always easy. "I wouldn't say I didn't have any problems. I finished the course in six years, not eight, and I wasn't immaculate." (ensino.eu, 22 Mar 2021)

Social Media

Legend

:: Gold Medal Event
:: Silver Medal Event
:: Bronze Medal Event

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