This year the Rio Maior Municipality celebrated hit´s 185th anniversary. At the official ceremony, on 6th November, the City Council awarded the Brazilian Olympic Committee with a Medal of Merit – Silver Degree.
This Medal acknowledges the importance on all Brazilian olympic sports to the prestige of the Rio Maior Sports Centre. We have the privilege of being the home to Brazilian sports, in a common history of years, a strong connection between Rio Maior and the Brazil Olympic sports, especially in the last two years, with the Europa Mission, in which the Rio Maior Sports Center was been the choice of the best Brazilian athletes classified for the Olympic Games in Tokyo.
Among the athletes in the Europa Mission, who had their training base in Rio Maior, ten won medals at the Tokyo Olympic Games. About 200 of them found in Rio Maior the best training conditions, excellent services, human resources and facilities.
Paulo Wanderley, President of the Brazilian Olympic Committee , in his gratitude message for the Medal of Merit, highlighted "the partnership between the COB and the Rio Maior Sports Center, which was fundamental to our winning of medals in Tokyo 20."