Diogo Ferreira (athlete)

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Diogo Ferreira
Personal information
Full name Diogo Miguel Pacheco Ferreira[1]
Born (1990-07-30) 30 July 1990 (age 34)
Queluz, Portugal
Education Universidade Lusófona[2]
Height 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)[3]
Weight 77 kg (170 lb)
Sport
Sport Athletics
Event(s) Pole vault
Club Benfica
Coached by Pedro Pinto

Diogo Miguel Pacheco Ferreira (born 30 July 1990 in Queluz) is a Portuguese athlete specialising in the pole vault.[4] He won the gold medal at the 2017 Summer Universiade. In addition, he represented his country at the 2017 World Championships without clearing any height.

His personal bests in the event are 5.71 metres outdoors (Lisbon 2017) and 5.60 metres indoors (Potsdam 2015)[5] The former is the current national record.

International competitions

Year Competition Venue Position Notes
Representing  Portugal
2009 European Junior Championships Novi Sad, Serbia 15th (q) 4.70 m
2010 Ibero-American Championships San Fernando, Spain 7th 5.05 m
2011 European U23 Championships Ostrava, Czech Republic 16th (q) 4.95 m
2014 European Championships Zürich, Switzerland 11th (q) 5.50 m1
2015 European Indoor Championships Prague, Czech Republic 18th (q) 5.25 m
Universiade Gwangju, South Korea 11th (q) 5.20 m1
2016 European Championships Amsterdam, Netherlands 19th (q) 5.35 m
2017 World Championships London, United Kingdom NM
Universiade Taipei, Taiwan 1st 5.55 m

1No mark in the final

References

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