Fernando Mamede

Fernando Eugénio Pacheco Mamede, ComM (born 1 November 1951) is a former Portuguese athlete, a long distance running specialist.

[3][4][5] Arrived in Lisbon, he worked some time as an accountant for Sporting Clube de Portugal, and in a bank until 1990, and after that he would work as a municipal sports technician for the Azambuja town hall.

He was also a sporting goods store owner in the Avenida de Roma (avenue in Lisbon) for most of his life and after retiring from competition, he worked some time as an assistant athletics coach of Mário Moniz Pereira at Sporting Club de Portugal.

[1] Together with Carlos Lopes, he is one of the best Portuguese male long distance runners ever, and held the 10,000 metres world record (1984-1989) with a time of 27:13.81 until bettered by Arturo Barrios of Mexico.

In the 1983 World Championships in Athletics and the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, he ran excellently in the 10,000-metre qualifying heats, but he placed 14th in the World Championships final and failed to finish in the Olympic final.