MONTEIRO Miguel

Rank	Event	Year	Location	Result
Paralympic Games
5	Shot Put - F40	2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	8.89
World Championships
2	Shot Put - F40	2017	London, GBR	9.86
5	Shot Put - F40	2019	Dubai, UAE	10.18
European Championships
1	Shot Put - F40	2021	Bydgoszcz, POL	10.92
2	Shot Put - F40	2018	Berlin, GER	9.69

Athlete, Student

Engineering - University of Aveiro, Portugal

English, Portuguese, Spanish

Casa do Povo de Mangualde [Portugal]

Joao Amaral Mendes, POR

2016 for Portugal, European Championships in Grosseto, Italy (Athlete, 06 Nov 2019)

He took up athletics in 2014 at the Casa do Povo de Mangualde club in Portugal. (Athlete, 06 Nov 2019; andoportugal.org, 26 Apr 2018; mangualdeonline.com, 12 Jul 2016)

His coach, Joao Amaral Mendes, encouraged his mother to get him involved. "I always liked to watch athletics on TV and to practise sports. I started with javelin and shot put, but I ended up adapting better to shot put, because javelin requires a lot of techniques." (ua.pt, 02 Mar 2021; record.pt, 05 Jan 2020; Athlete, 06 Nov 2019)

To continue improving his personal best in shot put. (ua.pt, 02 Mar 2021)

Winning silver in the F40 shot put at the 2017 World Championships in London, England. (Athlete, 06 Nov 2019; record.pt, 05 Jan 2020)

Portuguese triple jumper Nelson Evora. (Athlete, 06 Nov 2019)

His family and coach Joao Amaral Mendes. (record.pt, 05 Jan 2020; Athlete, 06 Nov 2019)

"Throwing is life. Never quit." (Athlete, 20 Aug 2018)

He was Portugal's flag bearer at the opening ceremony of the 2018 European Championships in Berlin, Germany. He was also named Newcomer of the Year in 2018 by the Sports Journalists Association in Portugal. (IPC, 20 Aug 2018; cnid.pt 24 May 2018; revistaatletismo.com, 24 May 2018)