Samuel Barata

{{short description|Portuguese long-distance runner (born 1993)}}

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Samuel Vila Barata (born 19 July 1993){{Cite web|title=Samuel Barata|url=https://worldathletics.org/athletes/portugal/samuel-barata-14428288|access-date=17 October 2020|website=World Athletics}} is a Portuguese long-distance runner. In 2020, he competed in the men's race at the World Athletics Half Marathon Championships held in Gdynia, Poland.{{Cite web|title=Men's Half Marathon|url=https://media.aws.iaaf.org/competitiondocuments/pdf/7138821/AT-HMAR-M-f----.RS6.pdf?v=1990771859|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201017121310/https://media.aws.iaaf.org/competitiondocuments/pdf/7138821/AT-HMAR-M-f----.RS6.pdf?v=1990771859|archive-date=17 October 2020|access-date=17 October 2020|website=2020 World Athletics Half Marathon Championships}}

Career

Barata represented Portugal at the European Athletics Championships both in 2016 and in 2018. In 2016, he competed in the men's half marathon and in 2018, he competed in the men's 10,000 metres event.

Barata represented Portugal at the 2017 Summer Universiade, held in Taipei, Taiwan, in the men's half marathon event.{{Cite web|title=Men's half marathon|url=https://data.2017.gov.taipei/atos/prod/resTP2017/pdf/TP2017/AT/TP2017_AT_C73K_ATM098101.pdf|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190712194530/https://data.2017.gov.taipei/atos/prod/resTP2017/pdf/TP2017/AT/TP2017_AT_C73K_ATM098101.pdf|archive-date=12 July 2019|access-date=28 June 2020|website=2017 Summer Universiade}} He did not finish his race. He finished in 5th place in the men's 10,000 metres event.

In 2021, Barata competed in the men's 3000 metres event at the European Athletics Indoor Championships held in Toruń, Poland.

Achievements

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2020

| World Championships (HM)

| Gdynia, Poland

| 40th

| Half marathon

| 1:02:19

2022

|European Championships

|Munich, Germany

| –

|10,000 m

|DNF

Personal bests

Outdoor

Indoor

References

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