query: participant_of fernando mamede
supports: The 10,000 metres or 10,000-meter run is a common long-distance track running event. The event is part of the athletics programme at the Olympic Games and the World Championships in Athletics and is common at championship level events. The race consists of 25 laps around an Olympic-sized track. It is less commonly held at track and field meetings, due to its duration. The 10,000 metres track race is usually distinguished from its road running counterpart, the 10K run, by its reference to the distance in metres rather than kilometres. Fernando Eugénio Pacheco Mamede , ComM ( born 1 November 1951 ) is a former Portuguese athlete , a long distance running specialist . He was born in Beja . 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 bested by Arturo Barrios of Mexico . However , he never won any high - level competition as he dealt very badly with pressure . In the European and World Athletics Championships and Olympics where he competed between 1971 and 1984 , he either was eliminated from the finals , placed outside the top ten runners in them or dropped out of the final . 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 . He remains one of fastest Europeans of all time in the 10,000 metres . Mamede also competed in cross country running , taking part in the IAAF World Cross Country Championships eleven times . His cross country career was highlighted by a bronze medal at the 1981 IAAF World Cross Country Championships and two wins at the Cross Internacional de Itálica . Road running is the sport of running on a measured course over an established road (as opposed to track and field and cross country running). The modern Olympic Games or Olympics are leading international sporting events featuring summer and winter sports competitions in which thousands of athletes from around the world participate in a variety of competitions. The Olympic Games are considered the world's foremost sports competition with more than 200 nations participating. The Olympic Games are held every four years, with the Summer and Winter Games alternating by occurring every four years but two years apart. Carlos Alberto de Sousa Lopes, (born February 18, 1947) is a Portuguese former long-distance runner, 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. The 1984 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXIII Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event held in Los Angeles, California, United States in 1984. When Tehran, the only other interested city on the international level, declined to bid due to the concurrent Iranian political and social changes, the IOC awarded Los Angeles the Games by default. This was the second occasion Los Angeles hosted the games, the first being in 1932.
candidates: 1984 summer olympics olympic games sport
answer: 1984 summer olympics