| Brazil at the Paralympics | |
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| IPC code | BRA |
| NPC | Brazilian Paralympic Committee |
| Website | www |
| Medals Ranked 16th |
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| Winter appearances | |
Brazil made itsParalympic Games debut at the1972 Summer Paralympics inHeidelberg, sending representatives to compete intrack and field, archery, swimming andwheelchair basketball. The country has competed in every edition of theSummer Paralympics since.[1]
Until the2024 Summer Paralympics, Brazilians have won a total of 467 Paralympic medals, of which 135 golds, 161 silvers and 171 bronzes. This places the country 16th on theall-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 inlawn bowls (throughRobson S. Almeida andLuiz 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;Luiz Cláudio Pereira won four medals, of which two gold, in track and field; as didAmintas Piedade. SwimmerMaria Jussara Matas obtained three medals, of which one gold, whileMarcelo 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 swimmerGraciana 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) andJudo (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. SwimmerClodoaldo 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 fromDaniel Dias andAndré 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 the2014 Winter Paralympics inSochi, sending two athletes. This made Brazil the secondtropical nation ever to have competed at the Winter Paralympics, afterUganda and the third country in South America to have done so, the others beingChile andArgentina.
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 inMadrid, 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 inBarcelona and also part of same event. But the results are not on theInternational 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 | 25 | 26 | 38 | 89 | 5 |
| 2028 Los Angeles | Future event | |||||
| 2032 Brisbane | Future event | |||||
| Total | 1,264 | 135 | 161 | 172 | 468 | 16 |
| 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 | – | |
| Sport | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
.svg) Athletics | 59 | 84 | 68 | 211 |
.svg) Swimming | 47 | 48 | 56 | 151 |
.svg) Judo | 9 | 11 | 13 | 33 |
.svg) Boccia | 6 | 1 | 4 | 11 |
.svg) Football 5-a-side | 5 | 0 | 1 | 6 |
.svg) Powerlifting | 3 | 1 | 2 | 6 |
.svg) Paracanoeing | 2 | 4 | 2 | 8 |
.svg) Parataekwondo | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 |
.svg) Goalball | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 |
.svg) Wheelchair fencing | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
.svg) Table tennis | 0 | 3 | 9 | 12 |
.svg) Equestrian | 0 | 1 | 4 | 5 |
.svg) Football 7-a-side | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
_pictogram_(Paralympics).svg) Cycling | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
 Lawn bowls | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
.svg) Paratriathlon | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
.svg) Shooting | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
.svg) Rowing | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
.svg) Volleyball | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
.svg) Badminton | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (20 entries) | 135 | 161 | 172 | 468 |
Best results in non-medalling sports:
| Summer | |||
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| Sport | Rank | Athlete | Event & Year |
.svg) Archery | 4th | Luciano Rezende | Men's individual recurve open in 2016 |
.svg) Wheelchair basketball | 5th | Brazil men's team | Men's tournament in 2016 |
.svg) Wheelchair rugby | 8th | Brazil mixed team | Mixed tournament in 2016 |
.svg) Wheelchair tennis | 4th | Leandro Pena & Ymanitu Silva | Quad doubles in 2024 |
| Winter | |||
| Sport | Rank | Athlete | Event & Year |
_pictogram.svg) 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 | ||
_pictogram.svg) Snowboarding | 10th | André Cintra | Men's banked slalom SB-LL1 in 2018 |
| Men's snowboard cross SB-LL1 in 2018 | |||
.svg) Wheelchair curling | Did not participate | ||
Brazilian athletes who have won at least three gold medals or five or more medals of any colour.[7][8]
| No. | Athlete | Sport | Years | Games | Gender | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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| 1 | Daniel Dias |  Swimming | 2008-2020 | 4 | M | 14 | 7 | 6 | 27 |
| 2 | André Brasil | Swimming | 2008-2016 | 3 | M | 7 | 5 | 2 | 14 |
| 3 | Clodoaldo Silva | Swimming | 2000-2016 | 5 | M | 6 | 5 | 2 | 13 |
| 4 | Carol Santiago | Swimming | 2020-2024 | 2 | F | 6 | 3 | 1 | 10 |
| 5 | Luiz Cláudio Pereira |  Athletics | 1984-1992 | 3 | M | 6 | 3 | 0 | 9 |
| 6 | Gabriel Araújo | Swimming | 2020-2024 | 2 | M | 5 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| 7 | Ádria Santos | Athletics | 1988-2008 | 6 | F | 4 | 7 | 1 | 12 |
| 8 | Antônio Tenório Silva |  Judo | 1996-2016 | 6 | M | 4 | 1 | 1 | 6 |
| 9 | Dirceu Pinto |  Boccia | 2008-2016 | 3 | M | 4 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| 10 | Jefinho |  Football | 2008-2024 | 5 | M | 4 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| Ricardinho | Football | 2008-2024 | 5 | M | 4 | 0 | 1 | 5 | |
| 12 | Damião Robson | Football | 2004-2020 | 4 | M | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Marcos Felipe | Football | 2004-2016 | 4 | M | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | |
| 14 | Terezinha Guilhermina | Athletics | 2004-2016 | 4 | F | 3 | 2 | 3 | 8 |
| 15 | Petrúcio Ferreira | Athletics | 2016-2024 | 3 | M | 3 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| Lucas Prado | Athletics | 2008-2016 | 3 | M | 3 | 2 | 0 | 5 | |
| 17 | Claudiney Batista | Athletics | 2012-2024 | 4 | M | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 18 | Cássio Reis [pt] | Football | 2012-2024 | 4 | M | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| Raimundo Nonato | Football | 2012-2024 | 4 | M | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 | |
| Yeltsin Jacques | Athletics | 2016-2024 | 3 | M | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 | |
| 21 | Fábio Vasconcelos | Football | 2004-2012 | 3 | M | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Gledson Barros | Football | 2012-2020 | 3 | M | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | |
| Severino da Silva | Football | 2004-2012 | 3 | M | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | |
| 24 | Felipe Gomes | Athletics | 2008-2024 | 5 | M | 2 | 3 | 1 | 6 |
| 25 | Talisson Glock | Swimming | 2016-2024 | 3 | M | 2 | 2 | 5 | 9 |
| 26 | Jerusa Geber dos Santos | Athletics | 2008-2024 | 5 | F | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 |
| 27 | Luis Silva | Swimming | 2000-2008 | 3 | M | 1 | 5 | 1 | 7 |
| 28 | Miracema Ferraz | Athletics | 1984 | 1 | F | 1 | 5 | 0 | 6 |
| 29 | Adriano Lima | Swimming | 1996-2012 | 5 | M | 1 | 4 | 3 | 8 |
| 30 | Gabriel Bandeira | Swimming | 2020-2024 | 2 | M | 1 | 3 | 3 | 7 |
| 31 | Yohansson Nascimento | Athletics | 2008-2016 | 3 | M | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 |
| 32 | Phelipe Rodrigues | Swimming | 2008-2024 | 5 | M | 0 | 6 | 3 | 9 |
| 33 | Odair Santos | Athletics | 2004-2016 | 4 | M | 0 | 5 | 4 | 9 |
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