1972 Summer Olympics / Participant (Brazil)

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Brazil took part in the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich with a delegation of 81 athletes (78 men and three women) in 44 competitions in thirteen sports. The flag bearer at the opening ceremony was the basketball player Luiz Cláudio Menon .

Participants by sport

basketball

Men

• 7th place

• Squad

  Adilson

  José Aparecido

  Bira

  Dodi

  Fransergio

  Helio Rubens Garcia

  Radvilas Gorauskas

  Marquinhos

  Luiz Cláudio Menon

  Mosquito

  Zé Geraldo

Boxing

Men

• Deusdete Vasconcelos

  Bantamweight: 2nd round

• Waldemar de Oliveira

  Light Heavyweight: Round of 16

Soccer

Men

• Preliminary round

• Squad
  • goal

  1 Vitor

  12 Nielsen

  • Defense

  2 Osmar

  3 Fred

  4 Terezo

  5 Falcão

  13 Abel

  14 Vagner

  16 Ângelo

  • midfield

  6 Celso

  7 Pedrinho

  8 Rubens Galaxy

  15 bolívar

  17 pintinho

  • Storm

  9 Washington

  10 Roberto Dinamite

  11 Dirceu

  18 Zé Carlos

  19 Manoel

Weightlifting

Men

• Luiz de Almeida

  Lightweight: 15th place

• Thamer Chaim

  Super heavyweight: 11th place

Judo

Men

• Lhofei Shiozawa

  Middleweight: 13th place

• Chiaki Ishii

  Light Heavyweight: Bronze

  Open class: 7th place

athletics

Men

• Luiz da Silva

  100 meters: heats

  200 meters: heats

• Nelson Prudêncio

  Triple jump: bronze

Cycling

Men

• Luiz Carlos Flores

  Road race: DNF

• Miguel Silva Júnior

  Road race: DNF

horse riding

• Sylvio de Rezende

  Dressage, individual: 25th place

• Antônio Simoes

  Jumping, singles: 31st place

• Nelson Pessoa Filho

  Jumping, singles: 39th place

rowing

Men

• Raúl Bagattini & Érico de Souza

  Two without a helmsman: reunion

shoot

• Bertino de Souza

  Free pistol: 36th place

• Durval Guimarães

  Free pistol: 46th place

• Marcos José Olsen

  Trap: 8th place

• Túlio Miraglia

  Trap: 46th place

swim

Men José Roberto Aranha 100 meters freestyle: semi-finals 4 x 100 meter freestyle: 4th place 4 x 200 meter freestyle: prelims 4 x 100 meter courses: 5th place Rui Oliveira 100 meters freestyle: prelims 200 meters freestyle: prelims 4 x 100 meter freestyle: 4th place 4 x 200 meter freestyle: prelims Paulo Zanetti 100 meters freestyle: prelims 4 x 100 meter freestyle: 4th place 4 x 200 meter freestyle: prelims Alfredo Carlos Machado 200 meters freestyle: prelims 400 meters freestyle: prelims 1500 meters freestyle: prelims 4 x 200 meter freestyle: prelims Paulo Becskehazy 4 x 100 meter freestyle: 4th place Rômulo Arantes Filho 100 meters back: heats 200 meters back: heats 4 x 100 meter courses: 5th place José Sylvio Fiolo 100 meters chest: 6th place 200 meters chest: 6th place 4 x 100 meter courses: 5th place Sérgio Waismann 100 meter butterfly: semi-finals 4 x 100 meter courses: 5th place Antônio Azevedo 200 meter medley: prelims 400 meter individual medley: prelims

Women Lucy Burle 100 meters freestyle: prelims 200 meters freestyle: prelims Cristina Teixeira 100 meter chest: heats 200 meters chest: disqualified after the preliminary run Maria Isabel Guerra 200 meters butterfly: heats 200 meter medley: prelims 400 meter individual medley: prelims

sailing

• Cláudio Biekarck

  Finn dinghy: 9th place

• Reinaldo Conrad & Burkhard Cordes

  Flying Dutchman: 4th place

• Jan Willem Aten & Jörg Brother

  Star: 4th place

• Mario Buckup & Peter Ficker

  Tempest: 7th place

• Patrick Mascarenhas , Axel Preben-Schmidt & Erik Preben-Schmidt

  Soling: 6th place

volleyball

Men

• 8th place

• Squad

  Alexandre Abeid

  Aderval Arvani

  Bebeto de Freitas

  Décio Cattaruzzi

  Jorge Delano

  João Jens

  Alexandre Kalache

  José Marcelino

  Antonio Carlos Moreno

  Mário Procópio

  Paulo Sevciuc

  Luiz Zech

Web links

• Brazilian Olympic team from 1972 in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )