Brazil at the Paralympics

Sporting event delegation

Brazil at the
Paralympics

IPC code| BRA
NPC| Brazilian Paralympic Committee
Website| www.cpb.org.br
Medals
Ranked 19th|

Gold
125
Silver
149
Bronze
160
Total
434
Summer appearances

* 1972
* 1976
* 1980
* 1984
* 1988
* 1992
* 1996
* 2000
* 2004
* 2008
* 2012
* 2016
* 2020
* 2024

Winter appearances

* 2014
* 2018
* 2022

Brazil made its Paralympic Games debut 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]

Until the 2020 Summer Paralympics, Brazilians have won a total of 378 Paralympic medals, of which 110 golds, 135 silvers and 133 bronzes. This places the country 19th 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; Márcia Malsar took three medals in athletics, of which the first gold for a Brazilian athlete; Luis Claúdio 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 took another gold in 2000, adding to Brazil's four golds 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 started the men's football 5-a-side dominination, 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 for the first time its Paralympic title in 5-a-side football, defeating China 2–1 in the final.[2]

Brazil debuted 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

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See also: All-time Paralympic Games medal table

### Medals by Summer Games

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This are the historical medal table for Brasil at the Summer Paralympics.[3][4] This medal table also includes the 5 medals (1 gold, 3 silvers and 1 bronze) won at the 1992 Summer Paralympics for Intellectually Disabled, held in Madrid, who also organized by then International Coordenation Committee (ICC) and same Organizing Committee (COOB'92) who made the gestion of the 1992 Summer Paralympics held in Barcelona and also part of same event. But the results are not on the International Paralympic Committee 's (IPC) database.[5]

Games  | Athletes  | Gold  | Silver  | Bronze  | Total  | Rank

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1960 Rome | did not participate
1964 Tokyo
1968 Tel-Aviv
1972 Heidelberg | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | –
1976 Toronto | 23 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 31
1980 Arnhem | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | –
1984 Stoke Mandeville
1984 New York | 30 | 7 | 17 | 4 | 28 | 24
1988 Seoul | 59 | 4 | 9 | 15 | 28 | 24
1992 Barcelona-Madrid | 41 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 12 | 28
1996 Atlanta | 60 | 2 | 6 | 13 | 21 | 37
2000 Sydney | 63 | 6 | 10 | 6 | 22 | 24
2004 Athens | 96 | 14 | 12 | 7 | 33 | 14
2008 Beijing | 187 | 16 | 14 | 17 | 47 | 9
2012 London | 181 | 21 | 14 | 8 | 43 | 7
2016 Rio de Janeiro | 285 | 14 | 29 | 29 | 72 | 8
2020 Tokyo | 258 | 22 | 20 | 30 | 72 | 7
2024 Paris | 255 | 15 | 15 | 27 | 57 | 6
2028 Los Angeles | Future event
2032 Brisbane | Future event
Total | 1,264 | 125 | 150 | 160 | 435 | 19

### Winter Paralympics

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Games  | Athletes  | Gold  | Silver  | Bronze  | Total  | Rank

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1976 Örnsköldsvik | did not participate
1980 Geilo
1984 Innsbruck
1988 Innsbruck
1992 Tignes-Albertville
1994 Lillehammer
1998 Nagano
2002 Salt Lake City
2006 Turin
2010 Vancouver
2014 Sochi | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | –
2018 PyeongChang | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | –
2022 Beijing | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | –
2026 Milan-Cortina | Future events
2030 French Alps
2034 Salt Lake City
Total | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | –

### Medals by Sport 1960–2024

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Leading in that sport

Sport| Gold| Silver| Bronze| Total

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Athletics| 58| 77| 61| 196
Swimming| 46| 45| 55| 146
Boccia| 6| 1| 4| 11
Judo| 5| 9| 11| 25
Football 5-a-side| 5| 0| 0| 5
Parataekwondo| 2| 1| 2| 5
Paracanoeing| 1| 2| 1| 4
Goalball| 1| 1| 1| 3
Powerlifting| 1| 1| 0| 2
Wheelchair fencing| 1| 1| 0| 2
Table tennis| 0| 3| 5| 8
Equestrian| 0| 1| 4| 5
Football 7-a-side| 0| 1| 2| 3
Cycling| 0| 1| 1| 2
Lawn bowls| 0| 1| 0| 1
Rowing| 0| 0| 2| 2
Volleyball| 0| 0| 2| 2
Totals (17 entries)| 126| 145| 151| 422

Source: [6]

Best results in non-medalling sports:

Summer

Sport  | Rank  | Athlete  | Event & Year
Archery | 4th | Luciano Rezende | Men's individual recurve open in 2016
Wheelchair basketball | 5th | Brazil men's team | Men's tournament in 2016
Wheelchair rugby | 8th | Brazil mixed team | Mixed tournament in 2016
Wheelchair tennis | 4th | Leandro Pena &
Ymanitu Silva | Quad doubles in 2024
Winter
Sport  | Rank  | Athlete  | Event & Year
Alpine skiing | 28th | André Pereira | Men's snowboard cross in 2014
Biathlon | Did not participate
Cross-country skiing | 6th | Cristian Ribera | Men's 15 km sitting in 2018
Para ice hockey | Did not participate
Snowboarding | 10th | André Cintra | Men's banked slalom SB-LL1 in 2018
Men's snowboard cross SB-LL1 in 2018
Wheelchair curling | Did not participate

## Flagbearers

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Summer Paralympics  | Games  | Athlete  | Sport

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1960 Rome | did not participate
1964 Tokyo
1968 Tel-Aviv
1972 Heidelberg | Not documented
1976 Toronto
1980 Arnhem
1984 New York
1984 Stoke Mandeville
1988 Seoul
1992 Barcelona
1996 Atlanta | Anderson Santos | Athletics
2000 Sydney | Ádria Santos | Athletics
Luís Silva | Swimming
2004 Athens | José Afonso Medeiros | Swimming
2008 Beijing | Antônio Tenório Silva | Judo
2012 London | Daniel Dias | Swimming
2016 Rio de Janeiro | Shirlene Coelho | Athletics
2020 Tokyo | Evelyn de Oliveira | Boccia
Petrúcio Ferreira | Athletics
2024 Paris | Elizabeth Gomes | Athletics
Gabriel Araújo | Swimming
Winter Paralympics  | Games  | Athlete  | Sport

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1976 Örnsköldsvik | did not participate
1980 Geilo
1984 Innsbruck
1988 Innsbruck
1992 Tignes-Albertville
1994 Lillehammer
1998 Nagano
2002 Salt Lake City
2006 Turin
2010 Vancouver
2014 Sochi | André Pereira | Alpine skiing
2018 PyeongChang | Aline Rocha | Cross-country skiing
2022 Beijing | Cristian Ribera | Cross-country skiing
Aline Rocha | Cross-country skiing

## See also

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* Brazil at the Olympics

## References

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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. ^ "Resultados do Brasil nos Jogos Paralímpicos". cpb.org.br. Retrieved 30 August 2021.
5. ^ "Madrid 1992 – the Paralympic Games that time forgot!". Paralympic Anorak. 25 June 2012. Retrieved 27 August 2021.
6. ^ Committee, Alexander Picolin, International Paralympic. "IPC Historical Results Archive - Brazil at the Paralympic Games". db.ipc-services.org. Archived from the original on September 1, 2021. Retrieved 2016-10-24.`{{cite web}}`: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

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