Brazil at the 1980 Summer Olympics

	Competed for the gold medal
	Competed for the bronze medal

Brazil at the
1980 Summer Olympics
Brazil at the; 1980 Summer Olympics
IOC code	BRA
NOC	Brazilian Olympic Committee
Website	www.cob.org.br (in Portuguese)
in Moscow
Competitors	106 (91 men and 15 women) in 14 sports
Flag bearer	João Carlos de Oliveira
Medals; Ranked 17th	Gold 2 Silver 0 Bronze 2 Total 4
Summer Olympics appearances (overview)
	1920; 1924; 1928; 1932; 1936; 1948; 1952; 1956; 1960; 1964; 1968; 1972; 1976; 1980; 1984; 1988; 1992; 1996; 2000; 2004; 2008; 2012; 2016; 2020; 2024;

Brazil competed at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, USSR. 106 competitors, 91 men and 15 women, took part in 72 events in 14 sports. Brazilian athletes conquered gold medals again after 24 years, since the 1956 Summer Olympics. Brazil won two gold and two bronze medals in 1980.^[1]

Both the two gold medals were obtained in sailing and they were the first gold medals in the history of the sport. Lars Sigurd Bjorkström and Alexandre Welter were Olympic champions in Tornado class. Marcos Soares and Eduardo Penido won the gold medal in the 470 class.

Brazil won a medal in a relay event in swimming for the first time - the bronze in men's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay.

The current world record holder and bronze medalist triple jumper João Carlos de Oliveira repeated the result in men's triple jump in a very controversial event. The Soviet Union's Jaak Uudmäe and Viktor Saneyev placed first and second, ahead of Oliveira. Both him and fourth place Australia's Ian Campbell produced long jumps, but they were declared fouls by the officials and not measured.^[2]

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
Gold	Lars Sigurd Bjorkström Alexandre Welter	Sailing	Tornado class	July 29
Gold	Marcos Soares Eduardo Penido	Sailing	470 class	July 29
Bronze	Cyro Delgado Jorge Fernandes Djan Madruga Marcus Mattioli	Swimming	Men's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay	July 23
Bronze	João Carlos de Oliveira	Athletics	Men's triple jump	July 24

Medals by sport
Sport				Total
Sailing	2	0	0	2
Athletics	0	0	1	1
Swimming	0	0	1	1
Total	2	0	2	4

Medals by gender
Gender				Total
Male	2	0	2	4
Female	0	0	0	0
Mixed	0	0	0	0
Total	2	0	2	4

Archery

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

Men

Athlete	Event	Round 1		Round 2		Total score
Athlete	Event	Score	Seed	Score	Seed	Score	Seed
Renato Emilio	Individual	1139	28	1125	27	2264	27

Women

Athlete	Event	Round 1		Round 2		Total score
Athlete	Event	Score	Seed	Score	Seed	Score	Seed
Arci Kempner	Individual	1084	25	1102	24	2186	26

Athletics

Men
Track & road events

Athlete	Event	Heat		Quarterfinal		Semifinal		Final
Athlete	Event	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Altevir de Araújo	200 m	21.49	4 q	21.22	7	Did not advance
Milton de Castro	100 m	10.74	5	Did not advance
Paulo Roberto Correia	200 m	21.27	3 Q	21.01	6	Did not advance
Antônio Dias Ferreira	400 m hurdles	50.14	2 Q	—		52.31	7	Did not advance
Agberto Guimarães	800 m	1:48.2	3 Q	—		1:46.9	3 Q	1:46.2	4
Katsuhiko Nakaya	100 m	10.72	3 Q	10.70	8	Did not advance
Geraldo José Pegado	400 m	48.71	6	Did not advance
Nelson dos Santos	100 m	10.51	3 Q	10.45	7	Did not advance
Milton de Castro Nelson dos Santos Katsuhiko Nakaya Altevir de Araújo	4 × 100 m	39.48	4 q	—				39.54	8
Paulo Roberto Correia Antônio Dias Ferreira Agberto Guimarães Geraldo José Pegado	4 × 400 m	3:04.9	2 Q	—				3:05.9	5

Field events

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
Athlete	Event	Distance	Position	Distance	Position
Claudio da Matta Freire	High jump	2.05	29	Did not advance
João Carlos de Oliveira	Long jump	7.78	12 q	DNS
João Carlos de Oliveira	Triple jump	16.62	5 Q	17.22

Women
Combined events – Pentathlon

Athlete	Event	100H	SP	HJ	LJ	800 m	Final	Rank
Conceição Geremias	Result	14.33	13.16	1.71	5.97	2:18.90	4263	14
Conceição Geremias	Points	825	789	945	900	804	4263	14

Basketball

Men

Preliminary round

The top two teams from each group advance to the final round group, while the remaining teams compete for 8th through 12th places in the classification group. Hosts Soviet Union and the world champions Yugoslavia advanced undefeated to the final round. Meanwhile, qualification in Group C was closely contested between Italy, Cuba and Australia, which ended up being decided by a third tiebreaker in favor of the first two teams.

Group A

Team	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts
Soviet Union	3	0	321	235	+86	6
Brazil	2	1	297	235	+62	5
Czechoslovakia	1	2	285	236	+49	4
India	0	3	194	391	−197	3

July 20

Brazil

72–70

Czechoslovakia

Olympiiski, Moscow

July 21

Brazil

88–101

Soviet Union

Olympiiski, Moscow

July 23

Brazil

137–64

India

Olympiiski, Moscow

Final round

The first two places in the preliminary group compete for the gold medal, while the third and fourth places compete for the bronze. The remaining teams' group ranking determines their positions in the final standings. The host nation failed to compete for the gold in spite of finishing the preliminary round undefeated, due to losses against the other two group leaders Yugoslavia and especially Italy, since the result from that match served as tiebreaker, giving the latter a passport to the gold medal match. The Soviet Union then won the bronze against Spain. Yugoslavia earned their first and only gold medal in men's basketball at this Olympic Games. Results from Yugoslavia vs. Spain, Italy vs. Cuba and Soviet Union vs. Brazil were carried over from the preliminary round.

Team	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	1st Tie
Yugoslavia	5	0	506	442	+64	10
Italy	3	2	419	438	−19	8	1W–0L
Soviet Union	3	2	505	468	+37	8	0W–1L
Spain	2	3	488	485	+3	7	1W–0L
Brazil	2	3	448	477	−29	7	0W–1L
Cuba	0	5	434	490	−56	5

July 25

Brazil

94–93

Cuba

Olympiiski, Moscow

July 26

Spain

110–81

Brazil

Olympiiski, Moscow

July 27

Italy

77–90

Brazil

Olympiiski, Moscow

July 29

Brazil

95–96

Yugoslavia

Olympiiski, Moscow

Team Roster:

Boxing

Men

Athlete	Event	1 Round	2 Round	3 Round	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Sidnei dal Rovere	Featherweight	BYE	Narendra Poma (NEP) W KO-1	Leoul Nearaio (ETH) W 5-0	Krzysztof Kosedowski (POL) L 0-5	Did not advance		5
Jaime Franco	Light welterweight	Anthony Willis (GBR) L 0-5	Did not advance
Francisco de Jesus	Light middleweight	Mbemba Camara (GUI) W 5-0	Leo Vainonen (FIN) W 5-0	Armando Martínez (CUB) L 0-5	Did not advance
Carlos Fonseca	Middleweight	BYE	Mark Kaylor (GBR) L 1-4	Did not advance

Cycling

Six cyclists represented Brazil in 1980.

Road

Athlete	Event	Time
Gilson Alvaristo	Road race	DNF
José Carlos de Lima		DNF
Fernando Louro		DNF
Davis Pereira		DNF

Track

1000m time trial

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Hans Fischer	1000m time trial	1:10.801	15

Pursuit

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Opposition Time	Opposition Time	Opposition Time	Rank
Antônio Silvestre	Men's individual pursuit	4:54,52	13	Did not advance
Hans Fischer José Carlos de Lima Fernando Louro Antônio Silvestre	Team pursuit	4:32,34	11	Did not advance

Diving

Men

Athlete	Event	Preliminary		Final
Athlete	Event	Points	Rank	Points	Rank	½ Prel.	Total	Rank
Milton Jorge Braga	3 m springboard	451.17	22	Did not advance
Milton Jorge Braga	10 m platform	373.06	20	Did not advance

Gymnastics

Artistic

Men

Athlete	Event	Qualification								Final
		Apparatus						Total	Rank	Apparatus						Total	Rank
		F	PH	R	V	PB	HB	Total	Rank	F	PH	R	V	PB	HB	Total	Rank
Joaho Luiz Ribeiro	All-around	18.20	16.85	17.35	18.65	17.05	17.65	52.30	64	Did not advance

Women

Athlete	Event	Qualification						Final
		Apparatus				Total	Rank	Apparatus				Total	Rank
		F	V	UB	BB	Total	Rank	F	V	UB	BB	Total	Rank
Claudia Costa	All-around	17.50	18.20	17.60	17.25	35.275	Q	8.650	8.800	8.200	8.850	69.775	31

Judo

Men

Athlete	Event	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Repechage 1	Repechage 2	Final / BM
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Luiz Juniti Shinohara	−60 kg	Boubacar Sow (SEN) W 1000-0000	Tibor Kincses (HUN) L 0000-0001	Did not advance					13
Luiz Onmura	−65 kg	Constantin Niculae (ROU) W 1000-0000	Wolfgang Biedron (SWE) L 0000-0001	Did not advance					13
Anelson Vieira	−71 kg	Edward Alkśnin (POL) L 0000-1000	Did not advance						19
Carlos Alberto Cunha	−78 kg	Michel Grant (SWE) W 1000-0000	Thomas Hagmann (SUI) W 1000-0000	Mircea Frăţică (ROU) L 0000-0001	Did not advance				10
Walter Carmona	−86 kg	Endre Kiss (HUN) W 1000-0000	Akilong Diabone (SEN) W 1000-0000	Mihalache Toma (ROU) W 1000-0000	Isaac Azcuy (CUB) L 0000-0001	Did not advance		Detlef Ultsch (GDR) L 0000-0001	5
Walter Carmona	Open	Jaakko Saari (FIN) W 1000-0000	Dimitar Zapryanov (BUL) L 0000-0001	Did not advance					10
Luiz Moura	−95 kg	Tsancho Atanasov (BUL) W 1000-0000	Jean-Luc Rougé (FRA) L 0000-0001	Did not advance					13
Oswaldo Simões Filho	+95 kg	BYE	Kim Myong Gyu (PRK) L 0000-0001	Did not advance					10

Rowing

Men

Athlete	Event	Heats		Repechage		Semifinals		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Paulo Cesar Dvorawski	Single sculls	8:01.38	3 SF	BYE		7:39.28	6 FB	7:32.00	12
José Cláudio Lazzarotto Ronaldo de Carvalho Ricardo de Carvalho Waldemar Trombetta	Quadruple sculls	6:25.84	5 R	6:11.96	4 FB	—		6:06.58	11
Laildo Machado Wandir Kuntze Walter Soares Henrique Johann Manuel Mandel	Coxless pair	6:59.98	5 R	6:37.07	3 FB	—		6:33.29	8

Sailing

Open

Athlete	Event	Race														Final rank
		1		2		3		4		5		6		7		Final rank
		Score	Rank	Score	Rank	Score	Rank	Score	Rank	Score	Rank	Score	Rank	Score	Rank	Score	Rank
Claudio Biekarck	Finn	9	15.0	5	10.0	1	0.0	13	~~19.0~~	9	15.0	5	10.0	2	3.0	53.0	4
Marcos Soares Eduardo Penido	470	2	3.0	1	0.0	6	11.7	1	0.0	5	10.0	10	~~16.0~~	6	11.7	36.4
Reinaldo Conrad Manfred Kaufmann	Flying Dutchman	3	5.7	5	10.0	9	~~15.0~~	7	13.0	5	10.0	6	11.7	7	13.0	63.4	8
Alexandre Welter Lars Sigurd Bjorkstrom	Tornado	3	5.7	1	0.0	3	5.7	6	~~11.7~~	1	0.0	1	0.0	5	10.0	21.4
Eduardo de Souza Peter Erzberger	Star	9	15.0	11	~~17.0~~	8	14.0	8	14.0	9	15.0	11	17.0	5	10.0	85.0	9
Gastao D'Melo Brun Vicente Brun Roberto Luiz Souza	Soling	4	8.0	7	~~13.0~~	2	3.0	3	5.7	7	13.0	3	5.7	6	11.7	47.1	6

Shooting

Open

Athlete	Event	Final
Athlete	Event	Score	Rank
Waldemar Capucci	50 m rifle prone	591	32
Sylvio Carvalho	50 m pistol	558	9
Fernando Gomes	25 m rapid fire pistol	588	19
Durval Guimarães	50 m rifle prone	592	25
Marcos José Olsen	Trap	187	18

Swimming

Men

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Rômulo Arantes	100 metre backstroke	57.90	2 Q	58.21	5	Did not advance
Cyro Delgado	100 metre freestyle	53.00	6	Did not advance
Cyro Delgado	200 metre freestyle	1:54.59	5	Did not advance
Jorge Fernandes	100 metre freestyle	52.51	4 Q	52.91	8	Did not advance
Jorge Fernandes	200 metre freestyle	1:54.32	3	Did not advance
Marcelo Jucá	400 metre freestyle	4:03.92	4	Did not advance
Marcelo Jucá	1500 metre freestyle	16:01.11	5	Did not advance
Cláudio Kestener	100 metre butterfly	57.65	4	Did not advance
Cláudio Kestener	200 metre butterfly	2:08.65	6	Did not advance
Djan Madruga	400 metre freestyle	3:55.69	1 Q	BYE		3:54.15	4
	1500 metre freestyle	15:56.20	6	Did not advance
	400 m individual medley	4:28.77	1 Q	BYE		4:26.81	5
Marcus Mattioli	200 metre freestyle	1:54.39	3	Did not advance
	100 metre butterfly	57.96	5	Did not advance
	200 metre butterfly	2:06.87	3	Did not advance
Ricardo Prado	100 metre backstroke	1:01.03	6	Did not advance
Ricardo Prado	400 m individual medley	4:31.69	3	Did not advance
Sérgio Ribeiro	100 metre breaststroke	1:06.71	5	Did not advance
Jorge Fernandes Marcus Mattioli Cyro Delgado Djan Madruga	4 × 200 metre freestyle relay	7:32.81	2	BYE		7.29,30
Rômulo Arantes Sérgio Pinto Ribeiro Cláudio Kestener Cyro Delgado Jorge Fernandes	4 × 100 metre medley relay	3.53,23	8 Q	BYE		3.53,23	8

Volleyball

Men

Pool B

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Date	Venue		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total
22 Jul	DMA	Yugoslavia	3–2	Brazil	8–15	15–12	10–15	15–4	15–12	63–58
24 Jul	MAC	Romania	3–1	Brazil	13–15	15–4	15–12	15–3		58–34
26 Jul	DMA	Brazil	3–0	Libya	15–1	15–2	15–6			45–9
28 Jul	DMA	Brazil	3–2	Poland	13–15	18–20	17–15	15–11	15–5	78–66

5th–8th semifinals

Date	Venue		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total
30 Jul	DMA	Czechoslovakia	0–3	Brazil	14–16	11–15	9–15			34–46

5th place match

Date	Venue		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total
01 Aug	DMA	Yugoslavia	2–3	Brazil	16–14	9–15	15–8	10–15	8–15	58–67

Team Roster

Women

Group B

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Date		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
21 Jul	Hungary	3–2	Brazil	17–15	9–15	15–12	6–15	15–12	62–69	Report
23 Jul	Bulgaria	3–0	Brazil	15–7	15–9	15–12			45–28	Report
25 Jul	Brazil	2–3	Romania	15–10	15–9	6–15	13–15	6–15	55–64	Report

5th–8th place semifinals

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
27 Jul	19:30	Cuba	3–0	Brazil	15–2	15–5	15–6			45–13	Report

7th place match

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
29 Jul	16:00	Romania	0–3	Brazil	8–15	12–15	12–15			32–45	Report

Team Roster

Weightlifting

Men

Athlete	Event	Snatch		Clean & Jerk		Total	Rank
Athlete	Event	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Total	Rank
Durval de Moraes	52 kg	80	18	107.5	14	187.5	16
Paulo Batista de Sene	60 kg	100	14	0	NVL	100	AC

References

^ "Brazil at the 1980 Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 5 May 2015.
^ "The forgotten story of Ian Campbell". The Guardian. 7 August 2013. Retrieved 15 November 2014.

[sports-reference-1] "Brazil at the 1980 Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 5 May 2015.

[campbell-2] "The forgotten story of Ian Campbell". The Guardian. 7 August 2013. Retrieved 15 November 2014.

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v t e Nations at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, Soviet Union
Africa	Algeria Angola Benin Botswana Cameroon Congo Ethiopia Guinea Lesotho Liberia Libya Madagascar Mali Mozambique Nigeria Sierra Leone Senegal Seychelles Tanzania Uganda Zambia Zimbabwe
America	Brazil Colombia Costa Rica Cuba Dominican Republic Ecuador Guatemala Guyana Jamaica Mexico Nicaragua Peru Puerto Rico Trinidad-Tobago Venezuela
Asia	Afghanistan Burma India Iraq Jordan North Korea Kuwait Laos Lebanon Mongolia Nepal Sri Lanka Syria Vietnam
Europe	Andorra Austria Belgium Bulgaria Cyprus Czechoslovakia Denmark Finland France East Germany Great Britain Greece Hungary Iceland Ireland Italy Luxembourg Malta Netherlands Poland Portugal Romania San Marino Soviet Union Spain Sweden Switzerland Yugoslavia
Oceania	Australia New Zealand