Brazil at the Paralympics

Brazil at the
Paralympics
IPC code BRA
NPC Brazilian Paralympic Committee
Website www.cpb.org.br
Medals
Ranked 23rd
Gold
88
Silver
115
Bronze
104
Total
307
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 23rd 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 (Antônio 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 André 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 Athletes Gold Silver Bronze Total Rank
Italy 1960 RomeDid not participate
Japan 1964 Tokyo
Israel 1968 Tel-Aviv
West Germany 1972 Heidelberg80000
Canada 1976 Toronto23010131
Netherlands 1980 Arnhem20000
United KingdomUnited States 1984 Stoke Mandeville / New York3071742824
South Korea 1988 Seoul5949152825
Spain 1992 Barcelona/Madrid414351227
United States 1996 Atlanta6026132137
Australia 2000 Sydney6361062224
Greece 2004 Athens96141273314
China 2008 Beijing187161417479
United Kingdom 2012 London18121148437
Brazil 2016 Rio de Janeiro285142929728
Japan 2020 TokyoFuture event
France 2024 ParisFuture event
United States 2028 Los AngelesFuture event
Total1,0358811510430723

Winter Paralympics

Games Athletes Gold Silver Bronze Total Rank
Sweden 1976 ÖrnsköldsvikDid 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 Sochi20000
South Korea 2018 PyeongChang20000-
China 2022 BeijingFuture event
Total40000

Medals by Sport 1960–2016[4]

Sport Gold Silver Bronze Total
Lawn bowls0101
Athletics416843152
Boccia6129
Paracanoe0011
Cycling0112
Equestrian0044
Football4217
Goalball0112
Judo49922
Powerlifting0101
Rowing0011
Swimming323436102
Table tennis0235
Sitting Volleyball0011
Wheelchair fencing1001
Total88115104307

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.
  4. Committee, Alexander Picolin, International Paralympic. "IPC Historical Results Archive - Brazil at the Paralympic Games". db.ipc-services.org. Retrieved 2016-10-24.
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