Diogo Ferreira (athlete)

In this Portuguese name, the first or maternal family name is Pacheco and the second or paternal family name is Ferreira.

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	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 m^1
2015	European Indoor Championships	Prague, Czech Republic	18th (q)	5.25 m
	Universiade	Gwangju, South Korea	11th (q)	5.20 m^1
2016	European Championships	Amsterdam, Netherlands	19th (q)	5.35 m
2017	World Championships	London, United Kingdom	–	NM
	Universiade	Taipei, Taiwan	1st	5.55 m
2018	European Championships	Berlin, Germany	25th (q)	5.36 m

¹No mark in the final

References

1. "Diogo Ferreira | Estatísticas do Atletismo Português, por Manuel Arons de Carvalho". atletismo-estatistica.pt. Retrieved 5 September 2017.
2. "Taipei 2017 Summer Universiade (Athletics) Athlete Profile : FERREIRA Diogo". data.2017.gov.taipei. Retrieved 5 September 2017.
3. "European Athletics - Athlete: Diogo Ferreira". european-athletics.org. Retrieved 5 September 2017.
4. Diogo Ferreira at World Athletics
5. "Profile of Diogo FERREIRA". All-Athletics.com. Retrieved 5 September 2017.