Portugal At The 1976 Summer Olympics
Portugal competed at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada.
A delegation of nineteen competitors participated in six sports, conquering, for the first time, two silver medals in one Olympiad and one olympic medal in the athletics. The long-distance runner and future marathon olympic champion Carlos Lopes conquered, here in Montreal, the first of its two olympic medals.
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