Brazil at the 2000 Summer Olympics

Brazil at the 2000 Summer Olympics
IOC code	BRA
NOC	Brazilian Olympic Committee
Website	www.cob.org.br (in Portuguese)
in Sydney
Competitors	205 (111 men, 94 women) in 23 sports
Flag bearer	Sandra Pires
Medals Ranked 53rd	Gold 0 Silver 6 Bronze 6 Total 12
Summer Olympics appearances (overview)
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Brazil competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. After getting the best results ever in 1996, with fifteen medals, including three golds, the Brazilian athletes were disappointing in Australia, winning twelve medals, but no golds. 205 competitors, 111 men and 94 women, took part in 96 events in 23 sports.^[1]

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event
Silver	Vicente de Lima, Édson Ribeiro, André da Silva, Claudinei da Silva, Cláudio Roberto Souza (heats)	Athletics	Men's 4 × 100 m relay
Silver	Tiago Camilo	Judo	Men's lightweight
Silver	Carlos Honorato	Judo	Men's middleweight
Silver	Robert Scheidt	Sailing	Men's laser
Silver	Zé Marco de Melo and Ricardo Santos	Volleyball	Men's beach volleyball
Silver	Adriana Behar and Shelda Bede	Volleyball	Women's beach volleyball
Bronze	Janeth Arcain, Alessandra Oliveira, Adriana Aparecida Santos, Cintia Santos Ilisaine Karen David, Lilian Cristina Goncalves, Silvia Luz, Helen Cristina Luz Claudia Neves, Adriana Pinto, Kelly Santos, Marta Sobral	Basketball	Women's team competition
Bronze	André Johannpeter, Álvaro_de_Miranda_Neto, Luís Felipe Azevedo, Rodrigo Pessoa	Equestrian	Team show jumping
Bronze	Torben Grael and Marcelo Ferreira	Sailing	Star
Bronze	Fernando Scherer, Gustavo Borges, Carlos Jayme, Edvaldo Valério	Swimming	Men’s 4x100 freestyle relay
Bronze	Adriana Samuel and Sandra Pires	Volleyball	Women's beach volleyball
Bronze	Leila Barros, Virna Dias, Erika Coimbra, Janina Conceição Kely Fraga, Ricarda Lima, Kátia Lopes, Walewska Oliveira Elisângela Oliveira, Karin Rodrigues, Raquel Silva, Hélia Souza	Volleyball	Women's team competition

Athletics

Basketball

Beach volleyball

• Zé Marco de Melo and Ricardo Santos — Silver Medal
• José Loiola and Emanuel Rego — 9th place (tied)

Boxing

Men's Flyweight (– 48 kg)

• José Albuquerque
  • Round 1 – Lost to Valeriy Sydorenko of Ukraine (did not advance)

Men's Featherweight (– 57 kg)

• Valdemir Pereira
  • Round 1 – Defeated James Swan of Australia
  • Round 2 – Lost to Ramazan Palyani of Turkey (→ did not advance)

Men's Lightweight (– 60 kg)

• Agnaldo Nunes
  • Round 1 – Lost to Michael Katsidis of Australia (→ did not advance)

Men's Light Welterweight (– 63.5 kg)

• Kelson Santos
  • Round 1 – Defeated Ghulam Shabbir of Pakistan
  • Round 2 – Lost to Mahamadkadyz Abdullaev of Uzbekistan (→ did not advance)

Men's Middleweight (– 75 kg)

• Cleiton Conceição
  • Round 1 – Lost to Jeff Lacy of United States (→ did not advance)

Men's Light Heavyweight (– 81 kg)

• Laudelino Barros
  • Round 1 – Lost to Danny Green of Australia (→ did not advance)

Canoeing

Cycling

Diving

Equestrianism

Fencing

One male fencer represented Brazil in 2000.

Men's foil

• Marco Martins

Football

Gymnastics

Handball

Judo

Rhythmic gymnastics

Rowing

Sailing

Nine men and three women competed in the eight events in the Sailing competition in Sydney.

Men's Mistral

• Ricardo Santos
  1. Race 1 – 5
  2. Race 2 – 10
  3. Race 3 – 21
  4. Race 4 – 12
  5. Race 5 – 22
  6. Race 6 – 4
  7. Race 7 – 8
  8. Race 8 – 14
  9. Race 9 – (37) OCS
  10. Race 10 – 21
  11. Race 11 – 26
  12. Final – 117 (15th place)

Men's Single Handed Dinghy (Finn)

• Christoph Bergmann
  1. Race 1 – 10
  2. Race 2 – 8
  3. Race 3 – 3
  4. Race 4 – (21)
  5. Race 5 – 11
  6. Race 6 – 13
  7. Race 7 – 9
  8. Race 8 – 2
  9. Race 9 – 18
  10. Race 10 – (20)
  11. Race 11 – 10
  12. Final – 84 (11th place)

Men's Double Handed Dinghy (470)

• Andre Fonseca and Alexandre Paradeda
  1. Race 1 – 14
  2. Race 2 – (24)
  3. Race 3 – 11
  4. Race 4 – 21
  5. Race 5 – 15
  6. Race 6 – 20
  7. Race 7 – (27)
  8. Race 8 – 24
  9. Race 9 – 22
  10. Race 10 – 21
  11. Race 11 – 23
  12. Final – 171 (26th place)

Men's Laser

• Robert Scheidt
  1. Race 1 – 1
  2. Race 2 – 2
  3. Race 3 – (22)
  4. Race 4 – 1
  5. Race 5 – 12
  6. Race 6 – 1
  7. Race 7 – 20
  8. Race 8 – 5
  9. Race 9 – 1
  10. Race 10 – 1
  11. Race 11 – (44) DSQ
  12. Final – 44 (Silver medal)

Men's Tornado

• Henrique Pellicano and Mauricio Oliveira
  1. Race 1 – (17) OCS
  2. Race 2 – 7
  3. Race 3 – 6
  4. Race 4 – 9
  5. Race 5 – 16
  6. Race 6 – 13
  7. Race 7 – (17) OCS
  8. Race 8 – 5
  9. Race 9 – 6
  10. Race 10 – 5
  11. Race 11 – 11
  12. Final – 78 (11th place)

Men's Two Handed Keelboat (Star)

• Marcelo Ferreira and Torben Grael
  1. Race 1 – 3
  2. Race 2 – (13)
  3. Race 3 – 1
  4. Race 4 – 2
  5. Race 5 – 1
  6. Race 6 – 6
  7. Race 7 – 7
  8. Race 8 – 4
  9. Race 9 – 12
  10. Race 10 – 3
  11. Race 11 – (17) OCS
  12. Final – 39 (Bronze medal)

Women's Mistral

• Christina Forte
  1. Race 1 – 24
  2. Race 2 – 22
  3. Race 3 – (27)
  4. Race 4 – 26
  5. Race 5 – 24
  6. Race 6 – (30) OCS
  7. Race 7 – 26
  8. Race 8 – 25
  9. Race 9 – 24
  10. Race 10 – 25
  11. Race 11 – 27
  12. Final – 223 (26th place)

Women's Double Handed Dinghy (470)

• Maria Krahe and Fernanda Oliveira
  1. Race 1 – 16
  2. Race 2 – 17
  3. Race 3 – 14
  4. Race 4 – 14
  5. Race 5 – 13
  6. Race 6 – (20) DSQ
  7. Race 7 – 17
  8. Race 8 – 15
  9. Race 9 – (20) OCS
  10. Race 10 – 19
  11. Race 11 – 18
  12. Final – 143 (19th place)

Swimming

Men's 50m Freestyle

• Fernando Scherer
  1. Preliminary Heat – 22.88 (did not advance)
• Edvaldo Valério
  1. Preliminary Heat – 22.96 (did not advance)

Men's 100m Freestyle

• Fernando Scherer
  1. Preliminary Heat – DNS (did not advance)
• Gustavo Borges
  1. Preliminary Heat – 49.76
  2. Semi-final – 49.93 (did not advance)

Men's 200m Freestyle

• Rodrigo Castro
  1. Preliminary Heat – 1:53.65 (did not advance)

Men's 400m Freestyle

• Luiz Lima
  1. Preliminary Heat – 03:53.87 (did not advance)

Men's 1500m Freestyle

• Luiz Lima
  1. Preliminary Heat – 15:23.15 (did not advance)

Men's 100m Breaststroke

• Eduardo Fischer
  1. Preliminary Heat – 01:03.72 (did not advance)

Men's 100m Backstroke

• Alexandre Massura
  1. Preliminary Heat – 55.58
  2. Semi-final – 56.07 (did not advance)
• Rogério Romero
  1. Preliminary Heat – 56.44 (did not advance)

Men's 200m Backstroke

• Rogério Romero
  1. Preliminary Heat – 02:00.48
  2. Semi-final – 01:59.69
  3. Final – 01:59.27 (7th place)
• Leonardo Costa
  1. Preliminary Heat – 02:01.08
  2. Semi-final – 02:02.26 (did not advance)

Men's 4 × 100 m Freestyle

• Fernando Scherer, Edvaldo Valério, Carlos Jayme, Gustavo Borges
  1. Preliminary Heat – 03:19.29
  2. Final – 03:17.40 (Bronze medal)

Men's 4 × 200 m Freestyle

• Edvaldo Valério, Leonardo Costa, Luiz Lima, Rodrigo Castro
  1. Preliminary Heat – 07:26.42 (did not advance)

Men's 4 × 100 m Medley

• Alexandre Massura, Eduardo Fischer, Fernando Scherer, Gustavo Borges
  1. Preliminary Heat – 03:42.31 (did not advance)

Women's 100m Butterfly

• Fabíola Molina
  1. Preliminary Heat – 01:02.77 (did not advance)

Women's 100m Backstroke

• Fabíola Molina
  1. Preliminary Heat – 01:03.68 (did not advance)

Synchronized swimming

Women

Table tennis

Taekwondo

Tennis

Triathlon

At the inaugural Olympic triathlon competition, Brazil was represented by three men and three women. Two of the Brazilian women did not finish, giving Brazil the distinction of being one of only two nations (along with Great Britain to have multiple competitors not finish the race.

Men's Individual Competition:

• Leandro Macedo – 1:49:50.69 (→ 14th place)
• Juraci Moreira – 1:50:44.79 (→ 22nd place)
• Armando Barcellos – 1:53:42.63 (→ 39th place)

Women's Individual Competition:

• Sandra Soldan – 2:03:19.86 (→ 11th place)
• Mariana Ohata – DNF (→ no ranking)
• Carla Moreno – DNF (→ no ranking)

Volleyball

Weightlifting

See also

• Brazil at the 1999 Pan American Games

Notes

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