Brazil at the Paralympics explained

Npc:	BRA
Npcname:	Brazilian Paralympic Committee
Games:	Paralympics
Rank:	19
Gold:	110
Silver:	135
Bronze:	133

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
	did not participate


		0	0	0	0	–
		0	1	0	1	31
		0	0	0	0	–
		7	17	4	28	24
		4	9	15	28	24
		4	3	5	12	28
		2	6	13	21	37
		6	10	6	22	24
		14	12	7	33	14
		16	14	17	47	9
		21	14	8	43	7
		14	29	29	72	8
		22	20	30	72	7
	Future event
	Future event
	Future event
Total	1,264	112	135	133	380	19

Winter Paralympics

Games	Athletes	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total	Rank
	did not participate



1992 Tignes-Albertville





		0	0	0	0	–
		0	0	0	0	–
		0	0	0	0	–
	Future event
Total	11	0	0	0	0	–

Medals by Sport 1960–2020

Best results in non-medalling sports:

Summer
Sport	Rank	Athlete	Event & Year
	4th		Men's individual recurve open in 2016
	4th		Men's singles SH6 in 2020
	4th		Women's PTWC in 2020
	10th		Mixed 10 metre air rifle prone SH2 in 2020
	5th		Men's tournament in 2016
	8th		Mixed tournament in 2016
	5th		Quad singles in 2016
Winter
Sport	Rank	Athlete	Event & Year
	28th		Men's snowboard cross in 2014
	Did not participate
	6th		Men's 15 km sitting in 2018
	Did not participate
	10th		Men's banked slalom SB-LL1 in 2018
	10th		Men's snowboard cross SB-LL1 in 2018
	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
2020 Tokyo	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
2022 Beijing	Aline Rocha	Cross-country skiing

Notes and References

http://www.paralympic.org/Sport/Results/search.html?npc=BRA&gender=all&medal=all&sport=all&games=all Brazil at the Paralympics
http://www.paralympic.org/Sport/Results/search.html?npc=BRA&gender=all&medal=all&sport=all&games=all Brazil at the Paralympics
Web site: Brazil Summer Paralympics. 26 August 2012.
Web site: Resultados do Brasil nos Jogos Paralímpicos. cpb.org.br. 30 August 2021.
Web site: Madrid 1992 – the Paralympic Games that time forgot! . Paralympic Anorak . 25 June 2012. 27 August 2021.