Brazil at the 2000 Summer Olympics explained

Noc:	BRA
Nocname:	Brazilian Olympic Committee
Games:	Summer Olympics
Year:	2000
Website:
Location:	Sydney
Competitors:	205 (111 men, 94 women)
Sports:	23
Flagbearer:	Sandra Pires
Rank:	53
Gold:	0
Silver:	6
Bronze:	6
Appearances:	auto

Brazil competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia.Brazilian athletes won twelve medals: six silver and six bronze, in the first Summer Olympics edition without a gold medal since the 1976 Summer Olympics. The 205 competitors, 111 men and 94 women, took part in 96 events in 23 sports.

Summary

At the Judo competitions, two silver medals were obtained. Tiago Camilo lost in the final against Italian Giuseppe Maddaloni in men's 73 kg. Carlos Honorato lost the final of the men's 90 kg to Mark Huizinga from the Netherlands.

Brazilians sailors conquered two medals in Sailing. Current Olympic champion Robert Scheidt was silver medalist in the Laser class after a very tough competition against British gold medalist Ben Ainslie. The 1996 Olympic champions Torben Grael and Marcelo Ferreira were bronze medalists in Star class. It was Grael's fourth of five Olympic medals.

Brazil obtained four of those medals in Volleyball (three of them in beach volleyball and one indoor). Adriana Behar and Shelda Bede were silver medalists in Women's beach volleyball. They were current world champions and lost the gold medal match to Natalie Cook and Kerri Pottharst from Australia. Also in the women's competition, Brazilians Adriana Samuel and Sandra Pires were the bronze medalists. Zé Marco de Melo and Ricardo Santos were silver medalists of the men's beach volleyball competition losing the gold medal match to Americans Dain Blanton and Eric Fonoimoana. The indoor medal was the bronze conquered by Brazil women's national volleyball team, repeating the same result of the 1996 Summer Olympics, in a match of 3 sets to 0 against United States.

The bronze medal obtained by equestrians Luiz Felipe de Azevedo, André Johannpeter, Alvaro Miranda Neto and Rodrigo Pessoa in team jumping was the same result of the 1996 Olympics and with the same team.

The swimmers Fernando Scherer, Gustavo Borges, Carlos Jayme and Edvaldo Valério conquered the bronze medal in men's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay. It was Gustavo Borges' fourth Olympic medal, a record number among Brazilian swimmers.

Brazil women's national basketball team won the bronze medal in a match decided in extra-time against South Korea.

At the Athletics competition a silver medal was obtained in men's 4 × 100 metres relay, by sprinters Vicente de Lima, Édson Ribeiro, André da Silva and Claudinei da Silva. Cláudio Roberto Souza was also awarded a silver medal in the event because he took part in the relay in the heats.^[1]

Medalists

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Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
	Vicente de Lima Édson Ribeiro André da Silva Claudinei da Silva Cláudio Roberto Souza (heats)
	Brazil women's national volleyball team
	Brazil women's national basketball team

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Medals by sport
Sport	bgcolor=#f7f6a8		bgcolor=#dce5e5		bgcolor=#ffdab9		Total
Volleyball	0	2	2	4
	0	2	0	2
	0	1	1	2
	0	1	0	1
	0	0	1	1
	0	0	1	1
	0	0	1	1
Total	0	6	6	12

Medals by date
Date	bgcolor=#f7f6a8		bgcolor=#dce5e5		bgcolor=#ffdab9		Total
16 Sep	0	0	1	1
17 Sep	0	0	0	0
18 Sep	0	1	0	1
19 Sep	0	0	0	0
20 Sep	0	1	0	1
21 Sep	0	0	0	0
22 Sep	0	0	0	0
23 Sep	0	0	0	0
24 Sep	0	0	0	0
25 Sep	0	1	1	2
26 Sep	0	1	0	1
27 Sep	0	0	0	0
28 Sep	0	0	1	1
29 Sep	0	1	0	1
30 Sep	0	1	3	4
1 Oct	0	0	0	0
Total	0	6	6	12

Medals by gender
Gender				Total
Male	0	5	2	7
Female	0	1	3	4
Mixed/Open	0	0	1	1
Total	0	6	6	12

Athletics

See main article: Athletics at the 2000 Summer Olympics.

Key

• Note–Ranks given for track events are within the athlete's heat only
• Q = Qualified for the next round
• q = Qualified for the next round as a fastest loser or, in field events, by position without achieving the qualifying target
• NR = National record
• N/A = Round not applicable for the event
• Bye = Athlete not required to compete in round

Men

Track and road events

Athletes	Events	Heat round 1		Heat round 2		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Vicente de Lima	100 metres	10.31	10 Q	10.28	22	align=center colspan=4	Did not advance
Raphael de Oliveira		10.44	44	align=center colspan=6	Did not advance
Cláudio Sousa		10.31	10 q	10.47	35	align=center colspan=4	Did not advance
André da Silva	200 metres	20.95	34	align=center colspan=6	Did not advance
Claudinei da Silva		20.70	13 Q	20.24	6 Q	20.30	7 Q	20.28	6
Sanderlei Parrela	400 metres	45.55	13 Q	45.55	16 Q	45.17	4 Q	45.01	4
Osmar dos Santos	800 metres	1:47.05	14 q	1:47.68	20	align=center colspan=2	Did not advance
Hudson de Souza	1500 metres	3:39.70	17 q	3:41.00	17	align=center colspan=2	Did not advance
Éder Fialho	Marathon	align=center colspan=2	Did not finish
Vanderlei de Lima		2:37:08	75
Osmiro Silva		align=center colspan=2	Did not finish
Márcio de Souza	110 metres hurdles	13.70	20 q	13.71	18	align=center colspan=4	Did not advance
Eronilde de Araújo	400 metres hurdles	50.06	18 Q	48.76	8 Q	48.34	5
Vicente de Lima Édson Ribeiro André da Silva Claudinei da Silva Cláudio Sousa	4 × 100 metres relay	38.32	2 Q	38.27	3 Q	37.90

Field events

Women

Field events

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Distance	Position	Distance	Position
Maurren Maggi	align=left rowspan=2	Long jump	6.35	24	Did not advance
align=left rowspan=2	Luciana dos Santos	no mark		Did not advance
Triple jump	13.48	24	Did not advance
Sueli dos Santos	Javelin throw	56.27	23	Did not advance

Basketball

See main article: Basketball at the 2000 Summer Olympics.

Women's tournament

• Team roster
  • Adriana Aparecida dos Santos
  • Adrianinha
  • Alessandra Santos de Oliveira
  • Cíntia Tuiú
  • Claudinha
  • Helen Cristina Santos Luz
  • Zaine
  • Janeth dos Santos Arcain
  • Kelly da Silva Santos
  • Lílian Cristina Lopes Gonçalves
  • Marta de Souza Sobral
  • Silvinha

Group play

width=150	Team	width=20	W	width=20	L	width=30	PF	width=30	PA	width=30	PD	width=20	Pts	width=40	Tie
	5	0	394	274	+120	10
	4	1	338	287	+51	9
	2	3	358	353	+5	7	1.12
	2	3	294	282	+12	7	0.97
	2	3	313	317	−4	7	0.91
	0	5	199	383	−184	5

Quarterfinal

Semifinal

Bronze medal match

Boxing

See main article: Boxing at the 2000 Summer Olympics.

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
José Albuquerque	Light flyweight	L 7–12	Did not advance
Valdemir Pereira	Featherweight	W 8–4	L RSC–R3	Did not advance
Agnaldo Nunes	Lightweight	L 6–15	Did not advance
Kelson Pinto	Light welterweight	W RSC–R4	L RSC–R4	Did not advance
Cleiton Conceição	Middleweight	L RSC–R3	Did not advance
Laudelino Barros	Light heavyweight	L RSC–R4	Did not advance

Canoeing

See main article: Canoeing at the 2000 Summer Olympics.

Sprint

Men

Athlete	Event	Heats		Semifinals		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Roger Caumo	K-1 500 m	1:49.955	8	align=center colspan=4	Did not advance
	K-1 1000 m	3:52.082	8	align=center colspan=4	Did not advance
Carlos Campos Sebastián Cuattrin	K-2 500 m	1:35.662	7 q	1:45.868	8	align=center colspan=2	Did not advance
	K-2 1000 m	3:21.228	7 q	3:22.496	6	align=center colspan=2	Did not advance

Cycling

See main article: Cycling at the 2000 Summer Olympics.

Road

Men

Women

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Janildes Fernandes	align=left rowspan=2	Road race	3:35:12	49
Cláudia Saintagne	3:24:19	44

Mountain biking

Diving

See main article: Diving at the 2000 Summer Olympics.

Men

Athlete	Event	Preliminary		Semifinal				Final		Total
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Total	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
align=left rowspan=2	Cassius Duran	3 m springboard	382.08	14 Q	216.06	13	598.14	14	Did not advance
10 m platform	331.86	28	Did not advance

Women

Athlete	Event	Preliminary		Semifinal				Final		Total
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Total	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
align=left rowspan=2	Juliana Veloso	3 m springboard	220.62	35	Did not advance
10 m platform	266.04	19	Did not advance

Equestrianism

See main article: Equestrianism at the 2000 Summer Olympics.

Dressage

Eventing

Athlete	Horse	Event	Dressage		Cross-country		Show jumping		Total
			Penalties	Rank	Penalties	Rank	Penalties	Rank	Penalties	Rank
Roberto de Macedo	HC Fricote	align=left rowspan=2	Individual	93.20	38	Did not finish		Did not advance
Carlos Parro	CDC Feline	81.60	36	19.20	17	47.00	23	147.80	21
Vicente de Araújo Neto Guto de Faria Serguei Fofanoff Éder Gustavo Pagoto	Teveri Hunefer Sanderston Amazonian Do Feroleto	Team	215.00	12	36.00	5	43.00	6	333.00	6

Jumping

Athlete	Horse	Event	Qualification								Final				Total
			Round 1		Round 2			Round 3			Round A		Round B
			Penalties	Rank	Penalties	Total	Rank	Penalties	Total	Rank	Penalties	Rank	Penalties	Rank	Penalties	Rank
Luiz Felipe de Azevedo	Ralph 12	align=left rowspan=4	Individual	4.75	=9	0.00	4.75	1	8.00	12.75	6 Q	16.00	=33	Did not advance
André Johannpeter	Calei	5.25	=13	8.00	13.25	=17	16.00	29.25	=34 q	4.00	=5 Q	4.00	=5	8.00	=4
Álvaro de Miranda Neto	Aspen	24.75	=66	4.00	28.75	53	12.00	40.75	51	Did not advance
Rodrigo Pessoa	Baloubet du Rouet	5.00	=11	0.00	5.00	2	0.00	5.00	1 Q	0.00	=1 Q
Luiz Felipe de Azevedo André Johannpeter Álvaro de Miranda Neto Rodrigo Pessoa	See above	Team	12.00		=4 Q	12.00	24.00	3	24.00

Fencing

See main article: Fencing at the 2000 Summer Olympics. One male fencer represented Brazil in 2000.

Men

Football

See main article: Football at the 2000 Summer Olympics.

Summary

Team	Event	Group stage				Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final /
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Brazil men	Men's tournament	W 3–1	L 1–3	W 1–0	1 Q	L 1–2	Did not advance		7
Brazil women	Women's tournament	W 2–0	L 1–2	W 2–1	2 Q		L 0–1	L 0–2	4

Men's tournament

See main article: Football at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament.

RosterHead coach: Vanderlei Luxemburgo

• Stand-by players

Group play--------

Quarterfinal

Women's tournament

See main article: Football at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament.

Head coach: José Duarte

Brazil named a squad of 18 players and 4 alternates for the tournament.^[2]

Group play--------

Semifinal

Bronze medal match

Gymnastics

See main article: Gymnastics at the 2000 Summer Olympics.

Artistic

Women

Athlete	Event	Qualification						Final
		Apparatus				Total	Rank	Apparatus				Total	Rank
Camila Comin	align=left rowspan=2	All-around	9.112	9.450	9.200	8.562	36.324	48	Did not qualify
Daniele Hypólito	9.325	9.062	9.462	9.262	37.111	33 Q	8.962	9.600	9.325	9.450	37.337	20

Rhythmic

Handball

See main article: Handball at the 2000 Summer Olympics.

Summary

Team roster

• Alessandra Medeiros da Oliveira
• Aline Silva
• Chana Masson
• Dilane Roese
• Idalina Mesquita
• Lucila Vianna da Silva
• Meg Montão
• Margarida Conte
• Maria José Batista de Sales
• Rosana de Aleluia
• Sandra de Oliveira
• Valéria de Oliveira
• Viviane Jacques
• Viviani Emerick

Group play

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Quarterfinal

5th-8th place classification match

7th place match

Judo

See main article: Judo at the 2000 Summer Olympics.

Rowing

See main article: Rowing at the 2000 Summer Olympics.

Sailing

See main article: Sailing at the 2000 Summer Olympics. 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

See main article: Swimming at the 2000 Summer Olympics. 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

See main article: Synchronized swimming at the 2000 Summer Olympics.

Women

Table tennis

See main article: Table tennis at the 2000 Summer Olympics.

Taekwondo

See main article: Taekwondo at the 2000 Summer Olympics.

Tennis

See main article: Tennis at the 2000 Summer Olympics.

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final /
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Gustavo Kuerten	Men's singles	W 6–1, 6–1	W 6–4, 6–4	W 7–6^(7–2), 6–3	L 4–6, 7–5	Did not advance
Gustavo Kuerten Jaime Oncins	Men's doubles		L 1–6, 4–6	Did not advance
Joana Cortez Vanessa Menga	Women's doubles		W 6–4, 6–2	L 2–6, 3–6	Did not advance

Triathlon

See main article: Triathlon at the 2000 Summer Olympics. 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

See main article: Volleyball at the 2000 Summer Olympics.

Men's team competition

• Preliminary round (group A)
  • Defeated Australia (3–0)
  • Defeated Egypt (3–0)
  • Defeated Netherlands (3–0)
  • Defeated Spain (3–1)
  • Defeated Cuba (3–0)
• Quarterfinals
  • Lost to Argentina (1–3)
• Classification matches
  • 5th/8th place: defeated Cuba (3–2)
  • 5th/6th place: lost to Netherlands (0–3) → sixth place
• Team roster
  • André Heller
  • Dante Amaral
  • Douglas Chiarotti
  • Gilberto Godoy Filho
  • Giovane Gávio
  • Gustavo Endres
  • Gilmar Teixeira
  • Marcelo Elgarten
  • Maurício Lima
  • Max Pereira
  • Nalbert Bitencourt
  • Alexandre Samuel
• Head coach: Radamés Lattari Filho

Women's team competition

• Preliminary round (group A)
  • Defeated Kenya (3–0)
  • Defeated Australia (3–0)
  • Defeated PR China (3–0)
  • Defeated Croatia (3–0)
  • Defeated United States (3–1)
• Quarterfinals
  • Defeated Germany (3–0)
• Semifinals
  • Lost to Cuba (2–3)
• Bronze-medal match
  • Defeated United States (3–0) → bronze medal
• Team roster
  • Elisângela Oliveira
  • Erika Coimbra
  • Hélia Souza
  • Janina Conceição
  • Karin Rodrigues
  • Kátia Lopes
  • Kely Fraga
  • Leila Barros
  • Raquel Silva
  • Ricarda Lima
  • Virna Dias
  • Walewska Oliveira
• Head coach: Bernardo Rezende

Weightlifting

See main article: Weightlifting at the 2000 Summer Olympics.

See also

• Brazil at the 1999 Pan American Games

Notes

• Wallechinsky, David (2004). The Complete Book of the Summer Olympics (Athens 2004 Edition). Toronto, Canada. .
• International Olympic Committee (2001). The Results. Retrieved 12 November 2005.
• Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (2001). Official Report of the XXVII Olympiad Volume 1: Preparing for the Games. Retrieved 20 November 2005.
• Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (2001). Official Report of the XXVII Olympiad Volume 2: Celebrating the Games. Retrieved 20 November 2005.
• Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (2001). The Results. Retrieved 20 November 2005.
• International Olympic Committee Web Site

Notes and References

1. Web site: Brazil at the 2000 Summer Games . 26 February 2012 . sports-reference.com . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120523083321/http://www.cob.org.br/brasil_jogos/edicao_interna.asp?id=27 . 23 May 2012 .
2. Web site: Brazil – Squad list . https://web.archive.org/web/20130126150743/http://www.fifa.com/tournaments/archive/womensolympic/sydney2000/teams/team=1882881/index.html . dead . 26 January 2013 . FIFA.com . Fédération Internationale de Football Association . 26 January 2020.