Brazil at the Paralympics

Brazil at the
Paralympics
IPC code BRA
NPC Brazilian Paralympic Committee
Website www.cpb.org.br
Medals
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Summer appearances
Winter appearances

Brazil made its Paralympic Games début at the 1972 Summer Paralympics in Heidelberg, sending representatives to compete in track and field, archery, swimming and wheelchair basketball. The country has competed in every edition of the Summer Paralympics since.[1]

Brazilians have won a total of 307 Paralympic medals, of which 88 gold, 115 silver and 104 bronze. This places the country 23th on the all-time Paralympic Games medal table.

Brazil's first delegations experienced little success. No medals were won in 1972, and the country's only medal in 1976 was a silver, in the men's pairs in lawn bowls (through Robson S. Almeida and Luiz Carlos Costa). There were no medals either in 1980, but Brazilian Paralympians found notable success as from 1984, where they obtained their first gold: M. Ferraz won five silver medals and one gold in track and field; Marcia Malsar took three medals in running, of which one gold; Luis Claudio Pereira won four medals, of which two gold, in track and field; as did Amintas Piedade. Swimmer Maria Jussara Matas obtained three medals, of which one gold, while Marcelo Amorim won four medals (three swimming and a bronze), also in swimming.

Pereira won three of Brazil's four gold medals in 1988, the fourth coming from swimmer Graciana Moreira Alves. In 1992, four Brazilian athletes each won a gold medal in track and field, while the country's two gold in 1996 were won in swimming (José Arnulfo Medeiros) and Judo (Antonio Tenório da Silva). Da Silva took another gold in 2000, adding to Brazil's four gold in track and field and one in swimming that year. The 2004 Games saw the country's best result to date, with fourteen gold medals, of which five in athletics. Swimmer Clodoaldo Silva became Brazil's most successful Paralympian in history, winning six gold medals in the pool, and Brazil also won the men's football 5-a-side competition, defeating Argentina in a penalty shoot-out in the final. (In the 7-a-side event, Brazil finished second, after a 1-4 defeat to Ukraine.) In 2008, athletics provided another four gold medals, boccia two, Judo one, and swimming eight (four each from Daniel Dias and Andre Brasil). In football, Brazil finished fourth in the 7-a-side event, with losses to Ukraine (0-6) and Iran (0-4) in the final round. The country did, however, successfully defend its Paralympic title in 5-a-side football, defeating China 2-1 in the final.[2]

Brazil débuted at the 2014 Winter Paralympics in Sochi, sending two athletes. This made Brazil the second tropical nation ever to have competed at the Winter Paralympics, after Uganda and the third country in South America to have done so, the others being Chile and Argentina.

Medal tables

Medals by Summer Games

[3]

Games Gold Silver Bronze Total Rank
Italy 1960 Rome Did not participate
Japan 1964 Tokyo
Israel 1968 Tel-Aviv
West Germany 1972 Heidelberg 0 0 0 0 –
Canada 1976 Toronto 0 1 0 1 31
Netherlands 1980 Arnhem 0 0 0 0 –
United KingdomUnited States 1984 Stoke Mandeville / New York 7 17 4 28 24
South Korea 1988 Seoul 4 9 15 28 25
Spain 1992 Barcelona/Madrid 4 3 5 12 27
United States 1996 Atlanta 2 6 13 21 37
Australia 2000 Sydney 6 10 6 22 24
Greece 2004 Athens 14 12 7 33 14
China 2008 Beijing 16 14 17 47 9
United Kingdom 2012 London 21 14 8 43 7
Brazil 2016 Rio de Janeiro 14 29 29 72 8
Japan 2020 Tokyo Future event
Total 88 115 104 307 23

Winter Paralympics

Games Gold Silver Bronze Total Rank
Sweden 1976 Örnsköldsvik Did not participate
Norway 1980 Geilo
Austria 1984 Innsbruck
Austria 1988 Innsbruck
France 1992 Tignes-Albertville
Norway 1994 Lillehammer
Japan 1998 Nagano
United States 2002 Salt Lake City
Italy 2006 Turin
Canada 2010 Vancouver
Russia 2014 Sochi 0 0 0 0 –
South Korea 2018 PyeongChang Future event
China 2022 Beijing Future event
Total 0 0 0 0 –

See also

References

  1. ↑ Brazil at the Paralympics, International Paralympic Committee
  2. ↑ Brazil at the Paralympics, International Paralympic Committee
  3. ↑ "Brazil Summer Paralympics". Retrieved 26 August 2012.
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