Brazil at the 1980 Summer Olympics

Brazil at the Olympic Games
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At the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow
Competitors	106 (91 men and 15 women) in 14 sports
Flag bearer	João Carlos de Oliveira
Medals Rank: 17	Gold 2	Silver 0	Bronze 2	Total 4
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Brazil competed at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, USSR.

Medalists

Gold

• Lars Sigurd Bjorkström and Alexandre Welter — Sailing, Men's Tornado Team Competition
• Marcos Soares and Eduardo Penido — Sailing, Men's 470 Team Competition

Bronze

• João Carlos de Oliveira — Athletics, Men's Triple Jump
• Ciro Marques, Jorge Fernandes, Djan Madruga and Marcus Mattioli — Swimming, Men's 4x200 metres Freestyle Relay

Results by event

Archery

In its first Olympic archery competition, Brazil sent one woman and one man.

Women's Individual Competition:

• Arci Kempner — 2186 points (→ 26th place)

Men's Individual Competition:

• Renato Emilio — 2264 points (→ 27th place)

Athletics

Men's 100 metres

• Nelson dos Santos

• Heat — 10.51
• Quarterfinals — 10.45 (→ did not advance)

• Katsuhiko Nakaya

• Heat — 10.72
• Quarterfinals — 10.70 (→ did not advance)

• Milton de Castro

• Heat — 10.74 (→ did not advance)

Men's 800 metres

• Agberto Guimarães

• Heat — 1:48.2
• Semifinals — 1:46.9
• Final — 1:46.2 (→ 4th place)

Men's 4x400 metres Relay

• Paulo Roberto Correia, Antonio Dias Ferreira, Agberto Guimarães, and Geraldo José Pegado

• Heat — 3:04.9
• Final — 3:05.9 (→ 5th place)

Men's 400 m Hurdles

• Antonio Dias Ferreira

• Heat — 50.14
• Semifinals — 52.31 (→ did not advance)

Men's High Jump

• Claudio da Matta Freire

• Qualification — 2.05 m (→ did not advance)

Men's Long Jump

• João Carlos de Oliveira

• Qualification — 7.78 m
• Final — did not start (→ no ranking)

Men's Triple Jump

• João Carlos de Oliveira

• Qualification — 16.62 m
• Final — 17.22 m (→ Bronze Medal)

Women's Pentathlon

• Conceição Geremias — 4263 points (→ 14th place)
  1. 100 metres — 14.33s
  2. Shot Put — 13.16m
  3. High Jump — 1.71m
  4. Long Jump — 5.97m
  5. 800 metres — 2:18.90

Basketball

Men's Team Competition

• Preliminary Round (Group A)

• Defeated Czechoslovakia (72-70)
• Lost to Soviet Union (88-101)
• Defeated India (137-64)

• Semi Final Round (Group A)

• Defeated Cuba (94-93)
• Lost to Spain (81-110)
• Defeated Italy (90-77)
• Lost to Yugoslavia (95-96) → 5th place

• Team Roster:

• André Ernesto Stoffel
• Luiz Gustavo de Lage
• José Carlos Santos Saiani
• Milton Setrini
• Wagner Machado da Silva
• Marcos Abdalla Leite
• Gilson Trindade de Jesus
• Marcel Ramon de Souza
• Adilson de Nascimento
• Marcelo Vido
• Oscar Schmidt
• Ricardo Cardoso Guimarães

Boxing

Men's Featherweight (– 57 kg)

• Sidnei dal Rovere

• First Round — Bye
• Second Round — Defeated Narendra Poma (Nepal) after referee stopped contest in first round
• Third Round — Defeated Leoul Nearaio (Ethiopia) on points (5-0)
• Quarter Finals — Lost to Krzysztof Kosedowski (Poland) on points (0-5)

Men's Light-Welterweight (– 63,5 kg)

• Jaime Franco

• First Round — Lost to Anthony Willis (Great Britain) on points (0-5)

Men's Light-Middleweight (– 71 kg)

• Francisco de Jesus

• First Round — Defeated Mbemba Camara (Guinee) on points (5-0)
• Second Round — Defeated Leo Vainonen (Finland) on points (5-0)
• Third Round — Lost to Armando Martínez (Cuba) on points (0-5)

Men's Middleweight (– 75 kg)

• Carlos Fonseca

• First Round — Bye
• Second Round — Lost to Mark Kaylor (Great Britain) on points (1-4)

Diving

Men's Springboard

• Milton Jorge Braga

• Preliminary Round — 451.17 points (→ 22nd place, did not advance)

Men's Platform

• Milton Jorge Braga

• Preliminary Round — 373.06 points (→ 20th place, did not advance)

Swimming

Men's 100m Freestyle

• Ciro Marques

• Heats — 53,00 (→ did not advance)

• Jorge Fernandes

• Heats — 52,51
• Semi-Finals — 52,91 (→ did not advance)

Men's 200m Freestyle

• Ciro Marques

• Heats — 1.54,59 (→ did not advance)

• Jorge Fernandes

• Heats — 1.54,32 (→ did not advance)

• Marcus Mattioli

• Heats — 1.54,39 (→ did not advance)

Men's 400m Freestyle

• Djan Madruga

• Final — 3.54,15 (→ 4th place)

Men's 400m Individual Medley

• Djan Madruga

• Final — 4.26,81 (→ 5th place)

Men's 4x200m Freestyle Relay

• Jorge Fernandes, Marcus Mattioli, Ciro Marques, and Djan Madruga

• Final — 7.29,30 (→ Bronze Medal)

Men's 4x100m Medley Relay

• Rômulo Arantes, Sergio Pinto Ribeiro, Claudo Mamede Kestener, and Jorge Fernandes

• Final — 3.53,23 (→ 8th place)

Volleyball

Men's team competition

• Preliminary Round (Group B)

• Lost to Yugoslavia (2-3)
• Lost to Romania (1-3)
• Defeated Libya (3-0)
• Defeated Poland (3-2)

• Classification Matches

• 5th/8th place: Defeated Czechoslovakia (3-0)
• 5th/6th place: Defeated Yugoslavia (3-2) → 5th place

• Team Roster

• João Alves Granjeiro
• Mario Xando Oliveira Neto
• Antonio Gueiros
• José Montanaro
• Antonio Carlos Moreno
• Renan Dal Zotto
• William Carvalho Silva
• Amauri Ribeiro
• Bernardo Rocha Rezende
• Jean Luc Rosat
• Deraldo Wanderley
• Bernard Rajzman

Women's Team Competition

• Preliminary Round (Group B)

• Lost to Hungary (2-3)
• Lost to Bulgaria (0-3)
• Lost to Romania (2-3)

• Classification Match

• 7th/8th place: Defeated Romania (3-0) → 7th place

• Team Roster

• Denise Porto Mattioli
• Ivonette Das Neves
• Lenice Peluso Oliveira
• Regina Vilela Santos
• Fernanda Emerick Silva
• Paula Rodrigues Mello
• Maria Isabel Alencar
• Eliana Maria Aleixo
• Maria Castanheira
• Jacqueline Cruz Silva
• Vera Helena Mossa
• Rita Cassia Teixeira

References

• sports-reference