Sporting CP (athletics)

Sporting CP's athletics department is, along with football's, a department that has been in continuous operation at Sporting Clube de Portugal since the foundation of the sports club in 1906.

Having been the most represented club in the Olympic Games, this section of the sports club, headed many decades by athletics coach Mário Moniz Pereira (1921 – 2016), is one of the most decorated Portuguese athletics teams and is responsible for much of the titles won by the sports club throughout its history. Sporting Portugal's athletics department long-distance runner Carlos Lopes won the marathon at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles for Portugal, becoming Portugal's first Olympic gold medalist ever. In the 1976 Summer Olympics, he had already won the first Olympic silver medal in the history of Portuguese sports, competing in the men's 10,000 metres.

The annual Sporting running race, established in 2011, is organized by the club  as well as the international athletics meeting Meeting de Atletismo Professor Moniz Pereira.

Domestic competitions

 * Portuguese Outdoor Men's Athletics Championship
 * Winners (48): 1941, 1943, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1950, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1981, 1985, 1987, 1988, 1995, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010


 * Portuguese Indoor Men's Athletics Championship
 * Winners (17): 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2017


 * Portuguese Cross Country Championship:
 * Winners (49): 1912, 1928, 1930, 1931, 1935, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1952, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1993, 1995, 1997, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021


 * Portuguese Cross Country mid-race Championship:
 * Winners (8): 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012


 * Portuguese Men's Athletics Cup
 * Winners (4): 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000

International competitions

 * European Champion Clubs Cup
 * Winners (1): 2000
 * Runners-up (3): 2007, 2009, 2010

Copa Iberica


 * Winners (1): 2021


 * European Champion Clubs Cup Cross Country
 * Winners (15): 1977, 1979, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 2018

Domestic competitions

 * Portuguese Outdoor Women's Athletics Championship
 * Winners (49): 1945, 1946, 1947, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1987, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018


 * Portuguese Indoor Women's Athletics Championship
 * Winners (23): 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018


 * Portuguese Cross Country Championship:
 * Winners (8): 1972, 1973, 1974, 2014, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021


 * Portuguese Cross Country mid-race Championship:
 * Winners (7): 2000, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017


 * Portuguese Women's Athletics Cup
 * Winners (5): 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000

International competitions

 * European Champion Clubs Cup
 * Winners (2): 2016, 2018


 * European Champion Clubs Cup Cross Country
 * Winners (2): 2018, 2019

Notable past athletes

 * António Stromp
 * Salazar Carreira
 * Mário Moniz Pereira
 * Dália da Cunha-Sammer
 * Álvaro Dias
 * Manuel Faria
 * Manuel de Oliveira
 * Lídia Faria
 * Armando Aldegalega
 * Carlos Lopes
 * Fernando Mamede
 * Aniceto Simões
 * José Carvalho
 * Hélder de Jesus
 * Domingos Castro
 * Dionísio Castro
 * Ezequiel Canário
 * Manuela Machado
 * Carla Sacramento
 * Rui Silva
 * Carlos Calado
 * Paulo Guerra
 * Francis Obikwelu
 * Naíde Gomes
 * Arnaldo Abrantes (father)
 * Arnaldo Abrantes (son)
 * Carlos Cabral
 * Lucrécia Jardim
 * Rafael Marques