The Olympic Medal Nobre Guedes is the most prestigious annual award given by the Olympic Committee of Portugal

Olympic Committee of Portugal

The Olympic Committee of Portugal is a non-profit organisation of public utility, which serves as the National Olympic Committee for Portugal. It was founded on October 26, 1909, to ensure a timely, methodical and state-sponsored participation at the Games of the V Olympiad, in Stockholm...

 (COP) to still-active Portuguese

Portugal

Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic is a country situated in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the West and South and by Spain to the North and East. The Atlantic archipelagos of the...

 sportspeople which stood out for their sporting results and achievements in the previous year. It is named in honour of the former COP president Francisco Nobre Guedes (1957–1968) and has been awarded uninterruptedly since 1951.

List of decorated personalities

So far, 67 sports personalities have been decorated with this award. Below is a full list.

Year	Name	Sport
1951	Duarte Bello	Sailing
1952	Rogério Tavares	Shooting
1953	António José Conde Martins	Sailing
1954	Henrique Calado	Equestrian
1955	José Manuel da Costa Pereira	Handball
1956	Joaquim Mascarenhas Fiuza	Sailing
1957	Manuel Faria	Athletics
1958	Regina Veloso	Swimming
1959	Dália Cunha Sammer	Gymnastics
1960	Mário Gentil Quina	Sailing
1961	Orlando Azinhais Orlando Azinhais Orlando Azinhais is a Portuguese Olympic fencer. He competed in three events at the 1960 Summer Olympics.-References:...	Fencing
1962	Pedro de Almeida	Athletics
1963	Vitor Manuel Ferreira Fonseca	Swimming
1964	Guy de Valle Flor Brito Chaves	Shooting
1965	António Pimenta da Gama	Equestrian
1966	Manuel Figueiredo de Oliveira	Swimming
1967	Dulce Gouveia	Swimming
1968	José Filipe Abreu	Gymnastics
1969	Susana Abreu	Swimming
1970	Luís Grilo	Wrestling
1971	José Manuel Costa Pedro	Weightlifting
1972	Maria Manuela Contreiras	Gymnastics
1973	Carlos Lopes Carlos Lopes Carlos Alberto de Sousa Lopes, GCIH, is a former Portuguese long-distance athlete, winner of the marathon race at the 1984 Summer Olympics, in Los Angeles. He brought home Portugal's first ever Olympic gold medal along with a new Olympic record - 2:09.21.Born in Vildemoinhos, near Viseu, Portugal,...	Athletics
1974	Armando Marques	Shooting
	Hugo d'Assumpção	Judo
1975	José Galvão	Athletics
	Rui Manuel Duarte Silva	Wrestling
1976	Maria Avelina Alvarez	Gymnastics
1977	Rui Abreu	Swimming
	Hugo d'Assumpção	Judo
	Joaquim Vieira	Wrestling
1978	José Luís Abreu de Almeida	Basketball
1979	Raul Correia Dinis	Weightlifting
1980	Alexandre Yokochi Alexandre Yokochi Alexandre Felske Tadayuki Yokochi was a Portuguese swimmer and is a professor of chemical engineering at Oregon State University....	Swimming
	Péricles Pinto	Athletics
1981	Rosa Mota Rosa Mota Rosa Maria Correia dos Santos Mota, GCIH, GCM is a Portuguese former marathon runner, one of her country's foremost athletes. She is also considered to have been one of the best marathon runners of the 20th century....	Athletics
1982	Francisco Coelho	Weightlifting
1983	Maria João Falcão	Gymnastics
	Luís Barroso	Athletics
1984	José Pinto José Pinto (athlete) José Luís Franca Abranches Pinto is a retired male race walker from Portugal, who represented his native country at three consecutive Olympic Games, starting in 1984.-Achievements:-References:*...	Athletics
1985	Mário Rua	Shooting
1986	Ana Sousa	Archery
1987	Luís Ramos Luis Ramos Luis Eduardo Ramos is a Uruguayan football defender who played for Uruguay in the 1966 FIFA World Cup. He also played for Club Nacional de Football.-External links:*...	Shooting
1988	José Garcia	Canoeing
1989	Bernardo Marques Pinto	Rugby
1990	Mário Silva Mário Silva (athlete) Mário Manuel da Silva is a retired Portuguese runner who specialized in the 1500 metres. He won a bronze medal at the 1991 World Indoor Championships behind Noureddine Morceli and Fermín Cacho...	Athletics
1991	Vitor Hugo	Roller hockey
	Miguel Barroso Miguel Barroso -Biography:Barroso was born at Consuegra in 1538.According to Palomino, he was a scholar of Gaspare Becerra, and distinguished himself as an architect, as well as a painter. He was employed by Philip II in the Escorial, where he painted, in the principal cloister, the Resurrection, Christ appearing...	Modern pentathlon
1992	Jorge Pereira	Trampoline
1993	Albertina Dias Albertina Dias Maria Albertina da Costa Dias Pereira is a former Portuguese long-distance runner. She competed in three consecutive Summer Olympics for her native country, starting in 1988...	Athletics
1994	Fernanda Ribeiro Fernanda Ribeiro Maria Fernanda Moreira Ribeiro, GCIH , is a long-distance runner, born in Penafiel, Portugal. She achieved the top of her career in the 1996 Summer Olympics where she won the women's 10,000 m gold medal, giving Portugal their 3rd Olympic gold , and establishing a new Olympic record - 31:01.63.-...	Athletics
1995	Manuela Machado Manuela Machado Maria Manuela Machado is a former Portuguese long-distance runner, who was particularly successful when running the marathon. Unlike many other marathoners, she did not focus on running city marathons that would have earned her lots of money...	Athletics
	João Rodrigues João Rodrigues (sailor) João Filipe Gaspar Rodrigues, better known as João Rodrigues, is a Portuguese windsurfer from Funchal, Madeira. He started sailing at nine years-old and racing competitively at the age of eleven....	Sailing
1996	Hugo Rocha Hugo Rocha Vitor Hugo Simão do Vale Rocha is a Portuguese competitive sailor and Olympic medalist.He won a bronze medal in the 470 class at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, along with his partner Nuno Barreto.-References:...  / Nuno Barreto Nuno Barreto Nuno Barreto is a Portuguese competitive sailor and Olympic medalist.He won a bronze medal in the 470 class at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, along with his partner Hugo Rocha.-References:...	Sailing
1997	Carla Sacramento Carla Sacramento Carla Cristina Paquete Sacramento, OIH is a middle distance runner from Portugal.-Biography:Carla Sacramento has won medals at a variety of distances but her speciality is the 1500 m...	Athletics
	Ticha Penicheiro Ticha Penicheiro Ticha Penicheiro is a Portuguese professional basketball player who plays for Los Angeles Sparks in the WNBA...	Basketball
1998	António Pinto António Pinto António Coelho Pinto is a Portuguese long-distance runner.Pinto won the London Marathon in 1992, 1997 and 2000, as well as the 10,000 metres final at the 1998 European Championships in Athletics in Budapest, Hungary. Pinto's best time in the marathon is 2:06:36...	Athletics
1999	Paulo Guerra Paulo Guerra Paulo Alexandre Martins Guerra is a Portuguese runner who specialized in the 10,000 metres and cross-country running...	Athletics
	Nuno Delgado Nuno Delgado Nuno Miguel Delgado is a former Portuguese judoka who became known for winning Portugal's first Olympic medal in judo – a bronze in the under-81 kg category at the 2000 Summer Olympics, in Sydney, Australia. He was also senior European champion .-External links:* * on TheJudoPodcast.eu...	Judo
2000	Michel Almeida Michel Almeida Michel de Sousa Fernandes Alcobia de Almeida is a Portuguese judoka.-Achievements:-References:* on JudoInside.com...	Judo
2001	Carlos Calado Carlos Calado Carlos Nuno Tavares Calado is an athlete from Portugal and S.L. Benfica, who specialises in the long jump....	Athletics
	Catarina Rodrigues Catarina Rodrigues Catarina Rodrigues is a Portuguese judoka.She was awarded the Olympic Medal Nobre Guedes in 2001.-Achievements:-References:* on JudoInside.com...	Judo
2002	Pedro Soares Pedro Soares Pedro Nuno de Almeida Soares is a Portuguese judoka.-Achievements:-References:* on JudoInside.com*...	Judo
2003	Gustavo Lima	Sailing
2004	Francis Obikwelu Francis Obikwelu Francis Obiorah Obikwelu, born 22 November 1978 in Nigeria and a Portuguese citizen since 2001, is a sprint athlete specializing in 100 metres and 200 metres. He holds the record for the fastest time in the 100 m set by a European competitor with a time of 9.86 seconds...	Athletics
2005	Telma Monteiro Telma Monteiro Telma Monteiro is a Portuguese judoka from the city of Almada. She is currently in the number two spot on the world ranking list. She is also a multi-time medal winner in both World and European Championships and Cups. She won silver medals in the last European and World Championships.Since July...	Judo
2006	Joaquim Videira Joaquim Videira Joaquim Filipe Ferreira dos Santos Videira is a Portuguese fencer. He was the épée world vice champion in 2006.-Biography:Joaquim Videira started fencing under the direction of his coach, the Hélder Alves....	Fencing
	Naide Gomes Naide Gomes Enezaide do Rosário da Vera Cruz Gomes, OIH, is a Portuguese heptathlete, born in São Tomé and Príncipe. She is also a top-class competitor in the long jump, and she competed in 100 metres hurdles at the 2000 Summer Olympics...	Athletics
2007	Vanessa Fernandes Vanessa Fernandes Vanessa de Sousa Fernandes is a Portuguese athlete from Perosinho, Vila Nova de Gaia and a former triathlon European and World champion...	Triathlon
	Nelson Évora Nelson Évora Nelson Évora is a Portuguese athlete, of Cape Verdean descent, who specializes in the triple jump and long jump. He is the current triple jump olympic and former world champion. Évora currently competes for Portuguese sports club S.L. Benfica...	Athletics

Awards by sport

Rank	Sport	No.
1	Athletics Athletics (track and field) Athletics is an exclusive collection of sporting events that involve competitive running, jumping, throwing, and walking. The most common types of athletics competitions are track and field, road running, cross country running, and race walking...	19
2	Judo Judo is a modern martial art and combat sport created in Japan in 1882 by Jigoro Kano. Its most prominent feature is its competitive element, where the object is to either throw or takedown one's opponent to the ground, immobilize or otherwise subdue one's opponent with a grappling maneuver, or force an...	7
–	Sailing Sailing Sailing is the propulsion of a vehicle and the control of its movement with large foils called sails. By changing the rigging, rudder, and sometimes the keel or centre board, a sailor manages the force of the wind on the sails in order to move the boat relative to its surrounding medium and...	7
4	Gymnastics Gymnastics Gymnastics is a sport involving performance of exercises requiring physical strength, flexibility, agility, coordination, and balance. Internationally, all of the gymnastic sports are governed by the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique with each country having its own national governing body...	6
–	Swimming Swimming (sport) Swimming is a sport governed by the Fédération Internationale de Natation .-History: Competitive swimming in Europe began around 1800 BCE, mostly in the form of the freestyle. In 1873 Steve Bowyer introduced the trudgen to Western swimming competitions, after copying the front crawl used by Native...	6
5	Shooting Shooting sports A shooting sport is a competitive sport involving tests of proficiency using various types of guns such as firearms and airguns . Hunting is also a shooting sport, and indeed shooting live pigeons was an Olympic event...	5
6	Weightlifting	3
–	Wrestling Wrestling Wrestling is a form of grappling type techniques such as clinch fighting, throws and takedowns, joint locks, pins and other grappling holds. A wrestling bout is a physical competition, between two competitors or sparring partners, who attempt to gain and maintain a superior position...	3
8	Basketball Basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...	2
–	Equestrian Equestrianism Equestrianism more often known as riding, horseback riding or horse riding refers to the skill of riding, driving, or vaulting with horses...	2
–	Fencing Fencing Fencing, which is also known as modern fencing to distinguish it from historical fencing, is a family of combat sports using bladed weapons.Fencing is one of four sports which have been featured at every one of the modern Olympic Games...	2
11	Archery Archery Archery is the art, practice, or skill of propelling arrows with the use of a bow, from Latin arcus. Archery has historically been used for hunting and combat; in modern times, however, its main use is that of a recreational activity...	1
–	Canoeing Canoeing Canoeing is an outdoor activity that involves a special kind of canoe.Open canoes may be 'poled' , sailed, 'lined and tracked' or even 'gunnel-bobbed'....	1
–	Handball Team handball Handball is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each pass a ball to throw it into the goal of the other team...	1
–	Modern pentathlon Modern pentathlon The modern pentathlon is a sports contest that includes five events: pistol shooting, épée fencing, 200 m freestyle swimming, show jumping, and a 3 km cross-country run...	1
–	Roller hockey Roller hockey Roller Hockey is a form of hockey played on a dry surface using skates with wheels. The term "Roller Hockey" is often used interchangeably to refer to two variant forms chiefly differentiated by the type of skate used. There is traditional "Roller Hockey," played with quad roller skates, and...	1
–	Rugby union Rugby union Rugby union, often simply referred to as rugby, is a full contact team sport which originated in England in the early 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand...	1
–	Triathlon Triathlon A triathlon is a multi-sport event involving the completion of three continuous and sequential endurance events. While many variations of the sport exist, triathlon, in its most popular form, involves swimming, cycling, and running in immediate succession over various distances...	1