1980 Summer Olympics / Participant (Brazil)

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Brazil took part in the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow with a delegation of 106 athletes (91 men and 15 women) in 72 competitions in 14 sports.

The Brazilian athletes each won two gold and two bronze medals. Olympic champions were the sailors Lars Sigurd Björkström and Alexandre Welter in the tornado and Marcos Soares and Eduardo Penido in the 470 dinghy. As in 1976, the flag bearer at the opening ceremony was the athlete João Carlos de Oliveira , who won bronze in the triple jump. The second bronze medal went to the 4 x 200 meter freestyle relay of swimmers, which consisted of Cyro Delgado , Jorge Fernandes , Djan Madruga and Marcus Mattioli .

Participants by sport

basketball

• 5th place

  André Ernesto Stoffel

  José Carlos Saiani

  Milton Setrini

  Wagner da Silva

  Marcos Abdalla Leite

  Gilson Trinidade de Jesus

  Marcel de Souza

  Adilson Nascimento

  Marcelo Vido

  Oscar Schmidt

  Ricardo Cardoso Guimarães

Archery

Men

• Emilio Dutra e Mello

  Individual: 27th place

Women

• Zélia Arci

  Singles: 26th place

Boxing

• Sidnei dal Rovere

  Featherweight: eliminated in the quarterfinals

• Jaime Sodré

  Light welterweight: eliminated in the 1st round

• Francisco de Jesus

  Light middleweight: eliminated in the quarterfinals

• Carlos Fonseca

  Middleweight: eliminated in the last sixteen

Weightlifting

• Durval de Moraes

  Flyweight: 16th place

• Paulo de Sene

  Featherweight: competition not over

Judo

• Luiz Shinohara

  Super lightweight: eliminated in the round of 16

• Luiz Onmura

  Half light weight: eliminated in the round of 16

• Anelson Vieira

  Lightweight: eliminated in the 1st round

• Carlos Alberto Cunha

  Light middleweight: eliminated in the quarterfinals

• Walter Carmona

  Middleweight: 5th place

  Open class: eliminated in the round of 16

• Luiz Moura

  Light heavyweight: eliminated in the last sixteen

• Osvaldo Simões Filho

  Heavyweight: eliminated in the last sixteen

athletics

Men

• Nelson dos Santos

  100 m: eliminated in the quarterfinals

  4 x 100 meter relay: 8th place

• Katsuhiko Nakaya

  100 m: eliminated in the quarterfinals

  4 x 100 meter relay: 8th place

• Milton de Castro

  100 m: eliminated in the preliminary run

  4 x 100 meter relay: 8th place

• Paulo Roberto Correia

  200 m: eliminated in the quarterfinals

  4 x 400 meter relay: 5th place

• Altevir de Araújo Filho

  200 m: eliminated in the quarterfinals

  4 x 100 meter relay: 8th place

• Geraldo José Pegado

  400 m: eliminated in the preliminary run

  4 x 400 meter relay: 5th place

• Agberto Guimarães

  800 m: 4th place

  4 x 400 meter relay: 5th place

• Antônio Ferreira

  400 m hurdles: eliminated in the semifinals

  4 x 400 meter relay: 5th place

• Cláudio Freire

  High jump: 29th place

• João Carlos de Oliveira

  Long jump: 12th place

  Triple jump: bronze

Women

• Conceição Geremias

  Pentathlon: 14th place

Cycling

• Gilson Alvaristo

  Road Race: Race not finished

• José Carlos de Lima

  Road Race: Race not finished

  Track 4000 m team pursuit: 11th place

• Fernando Louro

  Road Race: Race not finished

  Track 4000 m team pursuit: 11th place

• Davis Pereira

  Road Race: Race not finished

• Hans Fischer

  Track 1000 m time trial: 15th place

  Track 4000 m team pursuit: 11th place

• Antônio Silvestre

  Track 4000 m individual pursuit: 13th place

  Track 4000 m team pursuit: 11th place

rowing

• Paulo César Dworakowski

  One: 12th place

• José Cláudio Lazzarotto

  Double foursome: 11th place

• Ronaldo de Carvalho

  Double foursome: 11th place

• Ricardo de Carvalho

  Double foursome: 11th place

• Waldemar Trombetta

  Double foursome: 11th place

• Laildo Machado

  Four with helmsman: 8th place

• Wandir Kuntze

  Four with helmsman: 8th place

• Walter Soares

  Four with helmsman: 8th place

• Henrique Johann

  Four with helmsman: 8th place

• Manuel Mandel

  Four with helmsman: 8th place

shoot

• Fernando Gomes

  Rapid fire pistol 25 m: 19th place

• Sylvio Carvalho

  Free pistol 50 m: 9th place

• Durval Guimarães

  Small bore rifle lying 50 m: 25th place

• Waldemar Capucci

  Small bore rifle lying 50 m: 32nd place

• Marcos José Olsen

  Trap: 18th place

swim

Men

• Jorge Luiz Leite

  100 m freestyle: eliminated in the semi-finals

  200 m freestyle: eliminated in the preliminary run

  4 x 200 meter freestyle relay: bronze

  4 x 100 meter medley relay: 8th place

• Cyro Delgado

  100 m freestyle: eliminated in the preliminary run

  200 m freestyle: eliminated in the preliminary run

  4 x 200 meter freestyle relay: bronze

  4 x 100 meter medley relay: 8th place

• Marcus Mattioli

  200 m freestyle: eliminated in the preliminary run

  100 m butterfly: eliminated in the preliminary run

  200 m butterfly: eliminated in the preliminary run

  4 x 200 meter freestyle relay: bronze

• Djan Madruga

  400 m freestyle: 4th place

  1500 m freestyle: eliminated in the preliminary run

  400 m individual medley: 5th place

  4 x 200 meter freestyle relay: bronze

• Marcelo Jucá

  400 m freestyle: eliminated in the preliminary run

  1500 m freestyle: eliminated in the preliminary run

• Rômulo Arantes Filho

  100 m back: eliminated in the semi-finals

  4 x 100 meter medley relay: 8th place

• Ricardo Prado

  100 m back: eliminated in the preliminary run

  400 m individual medley: eliminated in the preliminary run

• Sérgio Ribeiro

  100 m chest: eliminated in the preliminary run

  4 x 100 meter medley relay: 8th place

• Cláudio Kestener

  100 m butterfly: eliminated in the preliminary run

  200 m butterfly: eliminated in the preliminary run

  4 x 100 meter medley relay: 8th place

sailing

• Claudio Biekarck

  Finn dinghy: 4th place

• Marcos Soares

  470 dinghy: gold

• Eduardo Penido

  470 dinghy: gold

• Reinaldo Conrad

  Flying Dutchman: 8th place

• Manfred Kaufmann

  Flying Dutchman: 8th place

• Alexandre Welter

  Tornado: gold

• Lars Sigurd Björkström

  Tornado: gold

• Eduardo de Souza

  Star: 9th place

• Peter Erzberger

  Star: 9th place

• Gastao Brun

  Soling: 6th place

• Vicente Brun

  Soling: 6th place

• Roberto Souza

  Soling: 6th place

do gymnastics

Men

• João Luiz Ribeiro

  Individual all-around: 64th place

  Floor: 53rd place

  Horse jump: 56th place

  Bars: 63rd place

  Horizontal bar: 61st place

  Rings: 63rd place

  Pommel horse: 63rd place

Women

• Cláudia Costa

  Individual all-around: 31st place

  Floor: 56th place

  Horse jump: 47th place

  Uneven bars: 59th place

  Balance beam: 60th place

volleyball

Men

• 5th place

  João Graneiro

  Mario Xandó Oliveira Neto

  Antonio Gueiros Badalhoca

  José Montanaro

  Antonio Carlos Moreno

  Renan Dal Zotto

  William Carvalho da Silva

  Amauri Ribeiro

  Bernardo Rezende

  Jean Luc Rosat

  Deraldo Wanderley

  Bernard Rajzman

Women

• 7th place

  Denise Mattioli

  Ivonete das Neves

  Lenice Oliveira

  Regina Vilela

  Fernanda Silva

  Ana Paula Mello

  Isabel Salgado

  Eliana Aleixo

  Dora Castanheira

  Jackie Silva

  Vera Mossa

  Rita Teixeira

Diving

Men

• Milton Braga

  3 m jumping: 22nd place

  10 m high diving: 20th place

Web links

• Brazilian Olympic team from 1980 in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )