Puma Portugal International Team Pro Elite 2019 T-Shirt worn by Portugal International Team Pro Athletes during 2019 season. 100% Authentic Color: White/Red/Green/Black 100% Polyester Made in Vietnam
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Team training and travel tee. Regular athletic fit — the standard chart applies.
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Portugal took 15 athletes to Doha in ten events and brought home one medal — and it came from the far edge of the programme, in the middle of the night. The men's 50 kilometre walk started at midnight to dodge the heat and was walked in about 32 degrees anyway. Yusuke Suzuki won it, Japan's first world title in a walk. Three seconds behind him, second: João Vieira, 4:04:59.
Vieira was 43 years and 221 days old, at his eleventh World Championships. Guinness certified what that meant: the oldest medallist in the history of these championships. And there is a second layer to the medal — it can never be matched, because the event was already being written out of the sport. The 50 km made its last Olympic appearance in Tokyo 2021, where Vieira, at 45, finished fifth. On the women's side, Inês Henriques, the 2017 world champion at the distance and the first ratified world-record holder in it, did not finish her Doha race.
A team t-shirt is the training and travel piece of an issued athletics kit — worn in the hotel, the bus and the warm-up area, never in the race. It carries the same federation badge as the competition kit, in street sizing and heavier knits.
The modern issue is polyester — 50 of the 56 tees in this archive declare it — because cotton holds twenty times the moisture. Cotton survives at the travel end of the set, where nobody sweats and softness wins.
