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
1972 1976 1980 1984 1988 1992 1996 2000 2004 2008 2012 2016
Winter appearances
2014 2018

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.

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.

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

See also: All-time Paralympic Games medal table

Medals by Summer Games

Games	Athletes	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total	Rank
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 / New York	30	7	17	4	28	24
1988 Seoul	59	4	9	15	28	25
1992 Barcelona/Madrid	41	4	3	5	12	27
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	Future event
2024 Paris	Future event
2028 Los Angeles	Future event
Total	1,035	88	115	104	307	23

Winter Paralympics

Games	Athletes	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total	Rank
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	Future event
Total	5	0	0	0	0	–

Medals by Sport 1960–2016

Sport	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
Swimming	32	34	36	102
Boccia	6	1	2	9
Judo	4	9	9	22
Football	4	2	1	7
Wheelchair fencing	1	0	0	1
Table tennis	0	2	3	5
Cycling	0	1	1	2
Goalball	0	1	1	2
Lawn bowls	0	1	0	1
Powerlifting	0	1	0	1
Equestrian	0	0	4	4
Paracanoe	0	0	1	1
Rowing	0	0	1	1
Sitting Volleyball	0	0	1	1
Athletics	0	0	0	0
Totals (15 sports)	47	52	60	159

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See also

• Brazil at the Olympics