Alvalade pole vault star given green line for again in Portland

Marta Onofre was issued an invitation by the International Association of Athletics Federations to take part in the World Indoor Championships next week, being hosted in Portland.

Last week the Alvalade athlete cleared 4.51m in the pole vault even in the National Club Indoor Championships to secure a place in Rio 2016.

Alvalade pole vault star reaches Olympic standard

Marta Onofre confirmed has her place in Rio de Janeiro later this year with a height of 4.51m in the pole vault competition at the National Indoor Club Championship. The height also set a new national record.

Onofre finished head and shoulders above the rest of the field, contributing to a superb team display that saw Sporting finish 19 points ahead of Benfica. 

Alvalade athlete hits Olympic minimum in discus

Irina Rodrigues will be in action in Rio de Janeiro later this year, after reaching the Olympic minimum's in Leiria this weekend. 

The Alvalade athlete managed to clear the 61m mark on four occasions, with her best throws measuring 63.96m and 63.14cm. It was way back in 1998 and 2000 that a Portuguese athlete managed such a massive distance, with Teresa Machado covering 65.40m.

Alvalade athlete in action in the British Championship

David Lima set a new personal best over 60m this week, with a time of 6.77s in the British Championship qualifiers. The Alvalade sprinter took to the track again for the semi-final, where he recorded a time of 6.78s to finish in 10th.

David Lima will also be in action later on this weekend, competing in the 200m event.

Alvalade athlete sets time of 53.30 in Madrid Indoor event

Cátia Azevedo broke the national under-23 400m indoor record this week, with a time of 53.30.

The Alvalade athlete broke the record while competing in the International Athletics Meeting in Madrid's Gallur Municipal Sports Centre.

Ceremony in Alvalade in preparation for Rio 2016

The Artur Agostinho Auditorium in Estádio José Alvalade hosted the club's very own Olympic Committee this week, in the build up to Rio 2016. A total of 28 of the project's 38 athletes were in attendance, to receive their Olympic diplomas from president Bruno de Carvalho himself. Alvalade's Olympic success often overlooked as being Portugal's own, but Sporting's brilliance on the world athletics stage is sure to stretch long into the future.

José Manuel Constantino, head the Portuguese Olympic Committee, was at the ceremony and thanked the Alvalade president for the chance to take part. Also pleased with Vicente Moura's (Sporting's vice-president for sports) recovery from a recent illness, Constantino expressed his satisfaction with Sporting's initiative: "Having the international capacity to help athletes get ready for the Olympics makes me really happy. Athletes come and go while institutions stay, but the truth is that institutions are built by people who have not only written part of our story, but also of the entire Olympic movement."

President Bruno de Carvalho also shared his thoughts at the gathering: "There is no other club as eclectic as us and we have kept that up even while having a lot of financial problems and being so close to becoming exclusively a football club. That isn't what we are and we turned that around to bring even more sports to the club. I want everyone of them to be perfectly aware of the importance that we we give to the history of the club. This will be the 20th time we have been in the Olympics out of 24 editions of the competition."

Alvalade distance runner claims bronze with a time of 1:10.58

Jéssica Augusto was in fantastic form in Barcelona this weekend, finishing in third with a time of 1:10.58.

The Kenyan Florence Kiplagat won the even for a third consecutive year, in a race hampered by windy conditions.

Jéssica Augusto is currently gearing up for the London Marathon, where the Alvalade runner will try and reach the minimum qualification time for the Rio Olympic Games.

Alvalade athlete claims podium spot with height of 4.30m

Marta Onofre finished in 3rd in the Gent Meeting this weekend, with a height of 4.30m in the pole vault event. The Alvalade athlete did also attempt to break the national record set by Maria Leonor Tavares (4.45m), which would also have seen here qualify for the Olympics.

Alvalade athlete clears 4.45 in Pombal to secure Euro spot

Marta Onofre was in brilliant form this weekend at the National Indoor Championships in Pombal, setting a new pole vault record with a height of 4.45m.

Onofre also secured a place at the European Indoor Championships with the new record and is just 5cm shy of Olympic qualification.

Belarusian specialist in 3,000m steeplechase

Already in training in the Algarve for more than a month, the latest addition to Sporting's athletics team, the Belarusian Sviatlana Kudzelich is a specialist in the 3,000m steeplechase and has been brought in to strengthen Alvalade's hopes in the European Champions Club Cup.

“I want to win my events in the European Champions Club Cup to help Sporting and to earn a place at the Olympic Games", affirmed Kudzelich in an exclusive interview with Sporting TV.