Brazil at the Paralympics
IPC code	BRA
NPC	Brazilian Paralympic Committee
Website	www.cpb.org.br
Medals Ranked 19th	Gold 110 Silver 135 Bronze 133 Total 378
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

Medals by Summer Games

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
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	Future event
2028 Los Angeles	Future event
2032 Brisbane	Future event
Total	1,264	112	135	133	380	19

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	6	0	0	0	0	–
2026 Milan-Cortina	Future event
Total	11	0	0	0	0	–

Medals by Sport 1960–2020

  Leading in that sport

Sport	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
Athletics	51	73	54	178
Swimming	40	39	46	125
Boccia	6	1	4	11
Judo	5	9	11	25
Football 5-a-side	5	0	0	5
Paracanoeing	1	2	1	4
Goalball	1	1	1	3
Parataekwondo	1	1	1	3
Powerlifting	1	1	0	2
Wheerchair fencing	1	1	0	2
Table tennis	0	3	4	7
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)	112	135	133	380

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
Badminton	4th	Vitor Tavares	Men's singles SH6 in 2020
Paratriathlon	4th	Jéssica Ferreira	Women's PTWC in 2020
Shooting	10th	Alexandre Galgani	Mixed 10 metre air rifle prone SH2 in 2020
Wheelchair basketball	5th	Brazil men's team	Men's tournament in 2016
Wheelchair rugby	8th	Brazil mixed team	Mixed tournament in 2016
Wheelchair tennis	5th	Ymanitu Silva	Quad singles in 2016
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

Summer Paralympics Games Athlete Sport 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 2000 Sydney Ádria Santos Athletics 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

Winter Paralympics Games Athlete Sport 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

• Brazil at the Olympics

References