Brazil at the 2012 Summer Olympics

Brazil at the 2012 Summer Olympics
IOC code	BRA
NOC	Brazilian Olympic Committee
Website	www.cob.org.br (in Portuguese)
in London
Competitors	258 in 24 sports
Flag bearers	Rodrigo Pessoa (opening) Esquiva Falcão (closing)
Medals Ranked 22nd	Gold 3 Silver 5 Bronze 9 Total 17
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Brazil competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, from 27 July to 12 August 2012. This was the nation's twenty-first appearance at the Summer Olympics, having missed the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam. The Brazilian Olympic Committee (Portuguese: Comitê Olímpico Brasileiro, COB) sent a total of 258 athletes to the Games, 136 men and 122 women, to compete in 24 sports. Brazil left London with a total of 17 Olympic medals (3 gold, 5 silver, and 9 bronze), winning their second largest number of medals at a single games, a performance only surpassed 4 years later in Rio de Janeiro, when Brazil was the host country.

Summary

The good result of the Brazilian performance was packed by the expressive results of the judo team during the first days of the Games. The first gold medal come with the judoka Sarah Menezes, in women's 48 kg category, Menezes was the first brazilian woman judoka to turn an Olympic champion Beijing, she had competed at the age of 18 and, inexperienced, was defeated in the first fight. The evolution in the cycle that followed was extraordinary. Sarah came to England at the height of physical, technical and psychological forms. And the result was the gold medal, with victory in the decision, over Romanian Alina Dumitru, who had been the champion in Beijing. Sarah, who won the first gold in Brazil in 2012 Summer Olympics, became the country's first judoka woman to triumph in an Olympics and was also the first gold medal in judo in 20 years, since the last to have won in the competition had been Rogério Sampaio, in Barcelona 1992. The other 3 medals in judo were bronze: Felipe Kitadai in men's 60 kg, Mayra Aguiar in women's 78 kg and Rafael Silva in men's +100 kg.

In the second week of the Games, another unprecedented event happened when the gymnast Arthur Zanetti made history again by conquering the gold medal in men's rings. Arthur Zanetti had already shown his potential in the 2011 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships when he won the silver medal. After being 4th place in the qualification to the rings final, with a score of 15.616, he won the gold medal in this event, with a score of 15.900. He was the first gymnast from Latin America to win an Olympic medal and also the first from the southern hemisphere.

On the penultimate day of the Games, Team Brasil won its third gold medal, the only collective sport in this edition. women's volleyball competition, the incumbent Olympic champion Brazil women's national volleyball team repeated the result obtained in Beijing four years early. But, this campaign is marked by impacting tense twists On the first game against the turkish team there was the first scare, the team almost lost the game in the fifth set. The second shock followed with the defeat to the United States in an unlit game. In the sequence a painful game happened when an unpredictable defeat happened for the South Korea With the combination of results so far, the team was facing a traumatic elimination, having to win at any cost the next two games (China. and Serbia.) and hoped for another combination of results in which the United States would have to win the their last two games (South Korea and Turkey), which ended up happening. The upshot of this campaign of ups and downs was a dramatic quarter-final clash against Russia This game is considered one of the greatest volleyball games of all times, in a fierce rivalry over previous clashes in recent years, such as the semi-finals of the Athens 2004 Olympic Games, the 2006 FIVB Women's Volleyball World Championship and the 2010 FIVB Women's Volleyball World Championship in all these games, Brazil ended up losing to Russia in the fifth set by extremely tight scores. This game followed the script of the previous decisive games, but with a twist, Brazil managed to reverse six match points throughout the game. However, in the fifth set, after several physical and mental tests, the team managed to win the game on the limit score of 21 to 19.

In the semi-finals, the team performance turned at the normal and a respectful win against Japan by 3 to 0. Thus, the team managed to reach its second consecutive final against another great rival, the United States. This second game between the two teams in these games was a reissue of the final of who´s held 4 years early in Beijing. But this time, the story had everything to be different, since the United States was the favorite. After an harsh defeat to the Americans in the first set (25–11), Brazil won easily the next three sets (25–17, 25–20 and 25–17) and the team has winning our second gold medal. Half of team was consecrated, since they were remnants of the team that four years earlier was also an Olympic champion: Fabiana Claudino, Fabiana de Oliveira, Paula Pequeno, Jaqueline Carvalho, Sheilla Castro and Thaísa Menezes made history to be the first Brazilian women to become two-time Olympic champions. The coach José Roberto Guimarães also wrote his name in history as the first three-time Olympic volleyball champion (male or female).

The Brazil men's national volleyball team was silver medalist of the tournament, losing the gold medal in a dramatic match by 3 to 2 to Russia. Brazilian won the first two sets, and had two gold medal match points, but led by Dmitriy Muserskiy the Russians won the next 3 sets and conquered the gold medal. In the beach volleyball two medals were conquered. Alison Cerutti and Emanuel Rego went to the gold dispute against the Germans Julius Brink and Jonas Reckermann and fought a balanced duel that, to the sadness of the Brazilian fans, ended with a tight victory of the rivals by 2 to 1 (23/21, 16/21 and 16/14) in the Men's beach volleyball . In the women's beach volleyball a bronze medal was obtained by Juliana Felisberta and Larissa França.

In the football men's tournament, the Brazil national under-23 football team led by Neymar advanced as favorite to the final against Mexico, after 5 victories in 5 matches. But a fast gol from Mexican Oribe Peralta with only 29 seconds into the first half, destabilized the Brazilian players. In the second half of the match, Peralta scored again within 74 minutes. Brazil still scored a goal in the 91 minutes, but there was no time for the tie and the match ended in 2 to 1.

In the pools of the 2012 Summer Olympics, two medals were obtained. Thiago Pereira finally won an Olympic medal in the Men's 400 m individual medley with a South American record of 4:08.86, an event where Michael Phelps was in the fourth place.César Cielo the incumbent Olympic and World Champion was the bronze medal of the Men's 50 m freestyle.

In the boxing, Brazil won medals for the first time after 44 years since the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City. In the debut of the women competition in boxing, Adriana Araujo had the honor of being the first Brazilian woman to win a medal in boxing, a bronze in the Women's lightweight . She also won the 100th medal of Brazil at the Olympics. Esquiva Falcão was the silver medalist in men's middleweight after losing to the Japanese Ryota Murata by 14 to 13. Esquiva's brother Yamaguchi Falcão was the bronze medalist men's light heavyweight.

Sailors Robert Scheidt and Bruno Prada took the bronze medal in the Star class. Robert became one of the most successful Brazilian athletes in history with a total of five Olympic medals, tying the record of Torben Grael. He is also one of the sailors with the largest number of Olympic medals at all times, along with Torben Grael and British Ben Ainslie.

Finally, Brazil won a medal in the last final of the 2012 Summer Olympics: the women's event in modern pentathlon. Yane Marques was the bronze medalist with 5340 points. This was the first medal and until nowadays the only medal ever won by Brazilians in modern pentathlon at the Summer Olympics.

With Rio de Janeiro being the host city of the 2016 Summer Olympics, a Brazilian segment was performed during the closing ceremony.

Medalists

Further information: 2012 Summer Olympics medal table

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
Gold	Sarah Menezes	Judo	Women's 48 kg	July 28
Gold	Arthur Zanetti	Gymnastics	Men's rings	August 6
Gold	Brazil women's national volleyball team Fabiana Claudino Dani Lins Paula Pequeno Adenízia da Silva Thaísa Menezes Jaqueline Carvalho Fernanda Ferreira Tandara Caixeta Natália Pereira Sheilla Castro Fernanda Garay Fabiana de Oliveira	Volleyball	Women's volleyball	August 11
Silver	Thiago Pereira	Swimming	Men's 400 m individual medley	July 28
Silver	Alison Cerutti Emanuel Rego	Volleyball	Men's beach volleyball	August 9
Silver	Brazil national under-23 football team Gabriel Rafael Thiago Silva Juan Jesus Sandro Marcelo Lucas Rômulo Leandro Damião Oscar Neymar Hulk Bruno Uvini Danilo Alex Sandro Ganso Alexandre Pato Neto	Football	Men's tournament	August 11
Silver	Esquiva Falcão Florentino	Boxing	Men's middleweight	August 11
Silver	Brazil men's national volleyball team Bruno Rezende Wallace de Souza Sidnei dos Santos Júnior Leandro Vissotto Gilberto Godoy Filho Murilo Endres Sérgio Santos Thiago Alves Rodrigo Santana Lucas Saatkamp Ricardo Garcia Dante Amaral	Volleyball	Men's volleyball	August 12
Bronze	Felipe Kitadai	Judo	Men's 60 kg	July 28
Bronze	Mayra Aguiar	Judo	Women's 78 kg	August 2
Bronze	Rafael Silva	Judo	Men's +100 kg	August 3
Bronze	César Cielo	Swimming	Men's 50 m freestyle	August 3
Bronze	Robert Scheidt Bruno Prada	Sailing	Star class	August 5
Bronze	Adriana Araujo	Boxing	Women's lightweight	August 8
Bronze	Juliana Felisberta Larissa França	Volleyball	Women's beach volleyball	August 8
Bronze	Yamaguchi Falcão	Boxing	Men's light heavyweight	August 10
Bronze	Yane Marques	Modern pentathlon	Women's event	August 12

Medals by sport
Sport				Total
Volleyball	1	2	1	4
Judo	1	0	3	4
Gymnastics	1	0	0	1
Boxing	0	1	2	3
Swimming	0	1	1	2
Football	0	1	0	1
Sailing	0	0	1	1
Modern pentathlon	0	0	1	1
Total	3	5	9	17

Medals by date
Date				Total
28 July	1	1	1	3
29 July	0	0	0	0
30 July	0	0	0	0
31 July	0	0	0	0
1 Aug	0	0	0	0
2 Aug	0	0	1	1
3 Aug	0	0	2	2
4 Aug	0	0	0	0
5 Aug	0	0	1	1
6 Aug	1	0	0	1
7 Aug	0	0	0	0
8 Aug	0	0	2	2
9 Aug	0	1	0	1
10 Aug	0	0	1	1
11 Aug	1	2	0	3
12 Aug	0	1	1	2
Total	3	5	9	17

Medals by gender
Gender				Total
Male	1	5	5	11
Female	2	0	4	6
Mixed	0	0	0	0
Total	3	5	9	17

Delegation

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff with part of the Olympic delegation.

The Brazilian Olympic Committee selected a team of 258 athletes, 136 men and 122 women, to compete in all sports, except badminton and field hockey; it was the nation's second-largest team sent to the Olympics, failing by only five athletes short of the record in Beijing. There was only a single competitor in archery, slalom canoeing, modern pentathlon, and freestyle wrestling. Brazil also marked its Olympic return in men's basketball after a sixteen-year absence.

The Brazilian team featured three defending champions from Beijing, including long jumper Maurren Maggi and freestyle swimmer César Cielo, who both became the nation's first athletes to win gold in their sporting events. Equestrian show jumper Rodrigo Pessoa, and table tennis player Hugo Hoyama became the second and third Brazilian athlete to compete in six Olympic games. Pessoa, a triple Olympic medalist, was also the nation's flag bearer at the opening ceremony. Meanwhile, three athletes made their fifth Olympic appearance: beach volleyballer and double medalist Emanuel Rego, sailor and multiple-time medalist Robert Scheidt, and football player Formiga. Equestrian eventing rider Serguei Fofanoff, at age 43, was the oldest athlete of the team, while slalom kayaker Ana Sátila was the youngest at age 16.

Other notable Brazilian athletes featured NBA basketball players Leandro Barbosa and Tiago Splitter, taekwondo jin and bronze medalist Natália Falavigna, double New York marathon champion Marílson dos Santos, and medley swimmer and multiple-time Pan American games medalist Thiago Pereira.

The following is the list of number of competitors participating in the Games. Note that reserves in fencing, field hockey, football, and handball are not counted as athletes:

Sport	Men	Women	Total
Archery	1	0	1
Athletics	18	18	36
Basketball	12	12	24
Boxing	7	3	10
Canoeing	2	1	3
Cycling	5	4	9
Diving	2	1	3
Equestrian	9	1	10
Fencing	3	0	3
Football	18	18	36
Gymnastics	3	5	8
Handball	0	14	14
Judo	7	7	14
Modern pentathlon	0	1	1
Rowing	1	3	4
Sailing	5	4	9
Shooting	1	1	2
Swimming	15	5	20
Synchronized swimming	0	2	2
Table tennis	3	3	6
Taekwondo	1	1	2
Tennis	4	0	4
Triathlon	2	1	3
Volleyball	16	16	32
Weightlifting	1	1	2
Wrestling	0	1	1
Total	136	122	258

Archery

Main article: Archery at the 2012 Summer Olympics

Brazil qualified one archer.

Athlete	Event	Ranking round		Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
		Score	Seed	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Daniel Xavier	Men's individual	653	51	Dobrowolski (POL) (14) L 3–7	Did not advance

Athletics

Main article: Athletics at the 2012 Summer Olympics

Marílson dos Santos in men's marathon

Brazilian athletes achieved qualifying standards in the following athletics events (up to a maximum of 3 athletes in each event at the 'A Standard, and 1 at the 'B' Standard):

Key

• Note–Ranks given for track events are within the athlete's heat only
• Q = Qualified for the next round
• q = Qualified for the next round as a fastest loser or, in field events, by position without achieving the qualifying target
• NR = National record
• N/A = Round not applicable for the event
• Bye = Athlete not required to compete in round
• NM = No mark

Men

Track & road events

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Aldemir da Silva Junior	200 m	20.53	2 Q	20.63	5	Did not advance
Bruno de Barros	200 m	20.52	2 Q	20.55	6	Did not advance
Sandro Viana	200 m	21.05	7	Did not advance
Fabiano Peçanha	800 m	1:46.29	2 Q	1:46.29	7	Did not advance
Kléberson Davide	800 m	DNS		Did not advance
Caio Bonfim	20 km walk	—				1:24:45	39
Franck de Almeida	Marathon	—				2:13:35	13
Marílson dos Santos	Marathon	—				2:11:10	5
Paulo Roberto Paula		—				2:12:17	8
Nilson André Aldemir da Silva Junior Bruno de Barros Carlos Roberto de Morais* José Carlos Moreira* Sandro Viana	4 × 100 m relay	38.35	4	—		Did not advance

* Reserve

Field events

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Distance	Position	Distance	Position
Guilherme Cobbo	High jump	2.21	=16	Did not advance
Fábio Gomes da Silva	Pole vault	NM	—	Did not advance
Mauro Vinícius da Silva	Long jump	8.11	1 Q	8.01	7
Ronald Julião	Discus throw	56.20	41	Did not advance
Jonathan Henrique Silva	Triple jump	15.59	26	Did not advance

Combined events – Decathlon

Athlete	Event	100 m	LJ	SP	HJ	400 m	110H	DT	PV	JT	1500 m	Final	Rank
Luiz Alberto de Araújo	Result	10.70	7.16	13.52	1.93	48.25	14.79	44.76	4.60	51.59	4:38.04	7849	19
	Points	929	852	699	740	897	875	762	790	612	693

Women

Track & road events

Athlete	Event	Heat		Quarterfinal		Semifinal		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Rosângela Santos	100 m	Bye		11.07	2 Q	11.17	3	Did not advance
Ana Cláudia Lemos	200 m	23.40	5	—		Did not advance
Evelyn dos Santos		22.97	4 q	—		22.82	7	Did not advance
Geisa Coutinho	400 m	53.43	5	—		Did not advance
Joelma Sousa	400 m	52.69	4	—		Did not advance
Jailma de Lima	400 m hurdles	57.05	8	—		Did not advance
Adriana Aparecida da Silva	Marathon	—						2:33:15	47
Tamiris de Liz* Evelyn dos Santos Vanda Gomes* Franciela Krasucki Ana Cláudia Lemos Rosângela Santos	4 × 100 m relay	42.55	4 q	—				42.91	7
Geisa Coutinho Jailma de Lima Aline dos Santos Joelma Sousa Lucimar Teodoro*	4 × 400 m relay	3:32.95	7	—				Did not advance

* Reserve

Field events

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Distance	Position	Distance	Position
Geisa Arcanjo	Shot put	18.47	11 q	19.02	7
Keila Costa	Triple jump	13.84	20	Did not advance
Andressa de Morais	Discus throw	60.94	16	Did not advance
Laila Ferrer e Silva	Javelin throw	58.39	21	Did not advance
Maurren Maggi	Long jump	6.37	15	Did not advance
Fabiana Murer	Pole vault	4.50	15	Did not advance

Basketball

Main article: Basketball at the 2012 Summer Olympics

Both Brazil's men and women basketball teams qualified for the events.

• Men's team event – 1 team of 12 players
• Women's team event – 1 team of 12 players

Men's tournament

Main article: Basketball at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament

Roster

Group play

Quarter-final

Women's tournament

Main article: Basketball at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament

Roster

* Iziane Castro Marques was released after indiscipline off the court before the Games. No other athlete has replaced her and the team had only 11 players.

Group play

Boxing

Main article: Boxing at the 2012 Summer Olympics

Brazil qualified boxers for the following events

Men

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Julião Henriques	Flyweight	Pak J-c (PRK) W 12–8	Cintrón (PUR) L 13–18	Did not advance
Robenílson de Jesus	Bantamweight	Shayimov (UZB) W 13–7	Vodopyanov (RUS) W 13–11	Álvarez (CUB) L 11–16	Did not advance
Robson Conceição	Lightweight	Taylor (GBR) L 9–13	Did not advance
Éverton Lopes	Light welterweight	Bye	Iglesias (CUB) L 15–18	Did not advance
Myke Carvalho	Welterweight	Spence (USA) L 10–16	Did not advance
Esquiva Falcão	Middleweight	Bye	Migitinov (AZE) W 24–11	Harcsa (HUN) W 14–10	Ogogo (GBR) W 16–9	Murata (JPN) L 13–14
Yamaguchi Falcão	Light heavyweight	Sangwan (IND) W 15–14	Meng Fl (CHN) W 17+–17 DC	Peraza (CUB) W 18–15	Mekhontsev (RUS) L 11–23	Did not advance

Women

Athlete	Event	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Érica Matos	Flyweight	Magliocco (VEN) L 14–15	Did not advance
Adriana Araújo	Lightweight	Khassenova (KAZ) W 16–14	Oubtil (MAR) W 16–12	Ochigava (RUS) L 11–17	Did not advance
Roseli Feitosa	Middleweight	Li Jz (CHN) L 14–19	Did not advance

Canoeing

Main article: Canoeing at the 2012 Summer Olympics

Slalom

Brazil qualified boats for the following events

Athlete	Event	Preliminary						Semifinal		Final
		Run 1	Rank	Run 2	Rank	Best	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Ana Sátila	Women's K-1	179.92	21	110.83	13	110.83	16	Did not advance

Sprint

Brazil qualified boats for the following events

Athlete	Event	Heats		Semifinals		Finals
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Ronílson Oliveira	Men's C-1 200 m	42.216	5 Q	42.560	5 FB	44.586	12
Erlon Silva Ronílson Oliveira	Men's C-2 1000 m	3:41.014	2 Q	3:42.101	5 FB	3:41.484	10

Qualification Legend: FA = Qualify to final (medal); FB = Qualify to final B (non-medal)

Cycling

Main article: Cycling at the 2012 Summer Olympics

Brazil qualified 6 cyclists for the following events

Road

Men

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Murilo Fischer	Road race	5:46:37	31
Magno Nazaret	Road race	Did not finish
	Time trial	55:50.77	26
Gregolry Panizo	Road race	Did not finish

Women

Clemilda Fernandes in women's road time trial

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Clemilda Fernandes	Road race	3:35:56	23
	Time trial	41:25:39	18
Janildes Fernandes	Road race	Did not finish
Fernanda da Silva		OTL

Mountain biking

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Rubens Donizete	Men's cross-country	1:34:23	24

BMX

Athlete	Event	Seeding		Quarterfinal		Semifinal		Final
		Result	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Result	Rank
Renato Rezende	Men's BMX	38.628	8	36	8	Did not advance
Squel Stein	Women's BMX	42.995	15	—		28	8	Did not advance

Diving

Brazil qualified three divers for the games.

Men

Athlete	Event	Preliminaries		Semifinals		Final
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
César Castro	3 m springboard	441.90	14 Q	388.40	17	Did not advance
Hugo Parisi	10 m platform	363.70	30	Did not advance

Women

Athlete	Event	Preliminaries		Semifinals		Final
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Juliana Veloso	3 m springboard	241.15	28	Did not advance

Equestrian

Main article: Equestrian at the 2012 Summer Olympics

Márcio Jorge riding Josephine during the cross-country phase of the eventing

Brazil qualified the full quota in show jumping. Brazil qualified the full quota in eventing and a single athlete in dressage.

Dressage

Athlete	Horse	Event	Grand Prix		Grand Prix Special		Grand Prix Freestyle		Overall
			Score	Rank	Score	Rank	Technical	Artistic	Score	Rank
Luiza Almeida	Pastor	Individual	65.866	47	Did not advance

Eventing

Athlete	Horse	Event	Dressage		Cross-country			Jumping						Total
								Qualifier			Final
			Score	Rank	Penalties	Total	Rank	Penalties	Total	Rank	Penalties	Total	Rank	Penalties	Rank
Serguei Fofanoff	Barbara TW	Individual	72.00	73	Eliminated			Did not advance
Ruy Fonseca	Tom Bombadil Too		53.90	=48	26.40	80.30	45	12.00	92.30	42	Did not advance			92.30	42
Márcio Jorge	Josephine MCJ		58.50	=58	42.80	101.30	50	4.00	105.30	46	Did not advance			105.30	46
Marcelo Tosi	Eleda All Black		58.00	57	29.60	87.60	47	10.00	97.60	44	Did not advance			97.60	44
Serguei Fofanoff Ruy Fonseca Marcio Jorge Marcelo Tosi	See above	Team	170.40	13	98.80	269.20	10	26.00	295.20	9	—			295.20	9

Jumping

Athlete	Horse	Event	Qualification								Final					Total
			Round 1		Round 2			Round 3			Round A		Round B
			Penalties	Rank	Penalties	Total	Rank	Penalties	Total	Rank	Penalties	Rank	Penalties	Total	Rank	Penalties	Rank
Álvaro de Miranda Neto	AD Rahmannshof's Bogeno	Individual	0	=1	0	0	=1 Q	8	8	=11 Q	4	=11 Q	5	9	=12	9	=12
José Roberto Fernandez Filho	Maestro St. Lois		0	=1	4	4	=17 Q	46	50	45	Did not advance
Rodrigo Pessoa	HH Rebozo		1	=33	4	5	=27 Q	5	10	25 Q	4	=11 Q	13	17	22	17	22
Carlos Eduardo Ribas	Wilexo		42	=72	Did not advance
Luiz Francisco de Azevedo* Álvaro de Miranda Neto José Roberto Fernandez Filho Rodrigo Pessoa Carlos Eduardo Ribas	See above	Team	—								8	=7	59	67	8	67	8

* Reserve

Fencing

Main article: Fencing at the 2012 Summer Olympics

Brazil qualified 3 fencers.

Men

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final / BM
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Athos Schwantes	Individual épée	—	Verwijlen (NED) L 10–15	Did not advance
Guilherme Toldo	Individual foil	Ali (MAR) W 15–6	Imboden (USA) L 5–15	Did not advance
Renzo Agresta	Individual sabre	Bye	Wagner (GER) L 6–15	Did not advance

Football

Main article: Football at the 2012 Summer Olympics

Both Brazil's men and women football teams qualified for the events.

• Men's team event – 1 team of 18 players
• Women's team event – 1 team of 18 players

Men's tournament

Main article: Football at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament

Team roster

Group play

Quarter-final

Semi-final

Gold medal match

Final rank

 Silver

Women's tournament

Main article: Football at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament

Team roster

Group play

Quarter-final

Gymnastics

Main article: Gymnastics at the 2012 Summer Olympics

Artistic

Brazil qualified 3 men in the individual all-around and qualified a women's team.

Men

Athlete	Event	Qualification								Final
		Apparatus						Total	Rank	Apparatus						Total	Rank
		F	PH	R	V	PB	HB			F	PH	R	V	PB	HB
Diego Hypólito	Floor	13.766	—					13.766	59	Did not advance
Sergio Sasaki	All-around	14.533	14.033	14.633	16.200	15.200	14.533	89.132	11 Q	14.233	14.366	14.233	16.100	15.200	14.833	88.965	10
Arthur Zanetti	Rings	—		15.616	—			15.616	4 Q	—		15.900	—			15.900

Women

Team

Athlete	Event	Qualification						Final
		Apparatus				Total	Rank	Apparatus				Total	Rank
		F	V	UB	BB			F	V	UB	BB
Harumi de Freitas	Team	—	12.033	—				Did not advance
Daiane dos Santos		14.166	13.933	12.966	—
Ethiene Franco		13.166	13.566	12.933	13.000	52.665	38
Daniele Hypólito		12.900	14.166	11.900	13.766	52.732	37
Bruna Leal		12.466	12.800	13.433	14.066	52.765	36
Total		40.765	41.765	38.799	39.966	161.295	12

Handball

Main article: Handball at the 2012 Summer Olympics

Brazil qualified for the women's event by winning the 2011 Pan American Games.

• Women's team event – 1 team of 14 players

Women's tournament

Main article: Handball at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament

Team roster

Group play

Quarter-final

Judo

Main article: Judo at the 2012 Summer Olympics

Men

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage	Final / BM
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Felipe Kitadai	−60 kg	Bye	Davaadorjyn (MGL) W 0011–0000	Majrashi (KSA) W 0021–0000	Sobirov (UZB) L 0001–0100	Did not advance	Choi G-H (KOR) W 0011–0001	Verde (ITA) W 0011–0000
Leandro Cunha	−66 kg	Bye	Zagrodnik (POL) L 0001–0011	Did not advance
Bruno Mendonça	−73 kg	Bye	Uwase (RWA) W 0100–0000	Elmont (NED) L 0002–0011	Did not advance
Leandro Guilheiro	−81 kg	Bye	Ovčiņņikovs (LAT) W 0010–0002	Attaf (MAR) W 1001–0001	Stevens (USA) L 0000–0101	Did not advance	Nakai (JPN) L 0001–0012	Did not advance	7
Tiago Camilo	−90 kg	—	Hontyuk (UKR) W 1001–0001	Meloni (ITA) W 1011–0001	Choriev (UZB) W 0010–0002	Song D-N (KOR) L 0012–0112	Bye	Iliadis (GRE) L 0000–0001	5
Luciano Corrêa	−100 kg	—	Kone (MLI) W 0102–0002	Grol (NED) L 0003–0101	Did not advance
Rafael Silva	+100 kg	—	Jónsson (ISL) W 0100–0000	Paškevičius (LTU) W 1001–0001	Mikhailine (RUS) L 0001–0001 YUS	Did not advance	Bor (HUN) W 0001–0001 GS	Kim S-M (KOR) W 0011–0002 GS

Women

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage	Final / BM
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Sarah Menezes	−48 kg	Van (VIE) W 0021–0002	Payet (FRA) W 0010–0001	Wu Sg (CHN) W 0011–0002	Van Snick (BEL) W 0010–0000	Bye	Dumitru (ROU) W 0110–0001
Erika Miranda	−52 kg	Bye	Kim K-O (KOR) L 0001–1012	Did not advance
Rafaela Silva	−57 kg	Roper (GER) W 0021–0002	Karakas (HUN) L 0000-0100	Did not advance
Mariana Silva	−63 kg	Xu L (CHN) L 0001–1012	Did not advance
Maria Portela	−70 kg	Alvear (COL) L 0000–1100	Did not advance
Mayra Aguiar	−78 kg	Bye	Mareghni (TUN) W 0020–0003	Pogorzelec (POL) W 0000–0100	Harrison (USA) L 0000–1010	Bye	Verkerk (NED) W 1000–0000
Maria Suellen Altheman	+78 kg	Mondière (FRA) W 0101–0000	Chikhrouhou (TUN) W 1001–0001	Sugimoto (JPN) L 0100–0000	Did not advance	Issanova (KAZ) W 0111–0002	Tong W (CHN) L 0001–0100 UGR	5

Modern pentathlon

Main article: Modern pentathlon at the 2012 Summer Olympics

Brazil qualified one athlete.

Athlete	Event	Fencing (épée one touch)			Swimming (200 m freestyle)			Riding (show jumping)			Combined: shooting/running (10 m air pistol)/(3000 m)			Total points	Final rank
		Results	Rank	MP points	Time	Rank	MP points	Penalties	Rank	MP points	Time	Rank	MP Points
Yane Marques	Women's	21–14	=6	904	2:12.39	6	1212	48	9	1152	12:06.08	12	2072	5340

Rowing

Main article: Rowing at the 2012 Summer Olympics

Brazil qualified the following boats.

Men

Athlete	Event	Heats		Repechage		Quarterfinals		Semifinals		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Anderson Nocetti	Single sculls	7:03.78	4 R	7:07:17	1 QF	7:17.37	6 SC/D	7:54.18	5 FD	7:25.03	19

Women

Athlete	Event	Heats		Repechage		Quarterfinals		Semifinals		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Kissya Cataldo	Single sculls	8:07.75	4 QF	Bye		8:12.85	6 SC/D	8:01.64	2 FC	DNS	18
Fabiana Beltrame Luana Bartholo	Lightweight double sculls	7:34.37	6 R	7:27:46	4 FC	—		Bye		7:41.43	13

Qualification Legend: FA=Final A (medal); FB=Final B (non-medal); FC=Final C (non-medal); FD=Final D (non-medal); FE=Final E (non-medal); FF=Final F (non-medal); SA/B=Semifinals A/B; SC/D=Semifinals C/D; SE/F=Semifinals E/F; QF=Quarterfinals; R=Repechage

Sailing

Main article: Sailing at the 2012 Summer Olympics

Nine Brazilian sailors qualified to compete in London.

Men

Athlete	Event	Race											Net points	Final rank
		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	M*
Ricardo Santos	RS:X	14	9	14	21	14	22	4	10	5	18	10	113	9
Bruno Fontes	Laser	17	2	12	19	10	27	23	21	16	5	EL	125	13
Jorge Zarif	Finn	15	20	15	20	16	24	14	21	19	21	EL	161	20
Bruno Prada Robert Scheidt	Star	4	1	9	6	2	1	3	5	1	3	14	40

Women

Athlete	Event	Race											Net points	Final rank
		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	M*
Patrícia Freitas	RS:X	13	13	16	12	13	17	16	19	2	8	EL	110	14
Adriana Kostiw	Laser Radial	11	15	27	31	25	17	42	26	30	34	EL	126	25
Ana Barbachan Fernanda Oliveira	470	11	5	14	1	6	10	10	9	5	4	14	75	6

M = Medal race; EL = Eliminated – did not advance into the medal race

Shooting

Main article: Shooting at the 2012 Summer Olympics

Two Brazilian shooters qualified to compete in London.

Men

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Filipe Fuzaro	Double trap	131	17	Did not advance

Women

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Ana Luiza Mello	25 m pistol	560	39	Did not advance
	10 m air pistol	367	43	Did not advance

Swimming

Main article: Swimming at the 2012 Summer Olympics

Brazilian swimmers achieved qualifying standards in the following events (up to a maximum of 2 swimmers in each event at the Olympic Qualifying Time (OQT), and 1 at the Olympic Selection Time (OST)): Glauber Silva obtained qualification for 100 m butterfly event but was removed from the Olympic team after drawing doping suspension.

Qualifiers for the latter rounds (Q) of all events were decided on a time only basis, therefore positions shown are overall results versus competitors in all heats.

Men

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Bruno Fratus	50 m freestyle	21.82	3 Q	21.63	4 Q	21.61	4
César Cielo	50 m freestyle	21.80	2 Q	21.54	=1 Q	21.59
	100 m freestyle	48.67	11 Q	48.17	5 Q	47.92	6
Nicolas Oliveira	100 m freestyle	49.51	24	Did not advance
Daniel Orzechowski	100 m backstroke	55.16	20	Did not advance
Felipe Lima	100 m breaststroke	1:00.57	16 Q	1:00.08	13	Did not advance
Felipe França Silva	100 m breaststroke	1:00.38	15 Q	1:00.01	12	Did not advance
Henrique Barbosa	200 m breaststroke	2:12.05	19	Did not advance
Tales Cerdeira		2:11.05	13 Q	2:09.77	9	Did not advance
Kaio de Almeida	100 m butterfly	53.14	27	Did not advance
	200 m butterfly	1:56.99	=17	Did not advance
Leonardo de Deus	200 m backstroke	1:58.22	16 Q	1:58.14	13	Did not advance
	200 m butterfly	1:58.03	21	Did not advance
Thiago Pereira	200 m individual medley	1:58.31	5 Q	1:57.45	4 Q	1:56.74	4
	400 m individual medley	4:12.39	4 Q	—		4:08.86 NR
Henrique Rodrigues	200 m individual medley	1:59.37	10 Q	1:59.58	12	Did not advance
César Cielo* Marcelo Chierighini João de Lucca* Bruno Fratus Nicolas Oliveira Nicolas Santos	4 × 100 m freestyle relay	3:16:14	9	—		Did not advance
César Cielo* Marcelo Chierighini Kaio de Almeida Felipe Lima* Daniel Orzechowski* Thiago Pereira Felipe França Silva	4 × 100 m medley relay	3:37.00	15	—		Did not advance

* Reserve

Women

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Graciele Herrmann	50 m freestyle	25.44	18	Did not advance
Daynara de Paula	100 m freestyle	55.94	19	Did not advance
	100 m butterfly	1:00.14	33	Did not advance
Joanna Melo	200 m butterfly	2:13.17	26	Did not advance
	200 m individual medley	2:14.26	16 Q	2:14.74	15	Did not advance
	400 m individual medley	DNS		—		Did not advance
Fabíola Molina	100 m backstroke	1:01.40	25	Did not advance
Poliana Okimoto	10 km open water	—				DNF

Synchronized swimming

Main article: Synchronized swimming at the 2012 Summer Olympics

Brazil qualified 2 quota places in synchronized swimming.

Athlete	Event	Technical routine		Free routine (preliminary)			Free routine (final)
		Points	Rank	Points	Total (technical + free)	Rank	Points	Total (technical + free)	Rank
Lara Teixeira Nayara Figueira	Duet	87.100	12	87.000	174.100	13	Did not advance

Table tennis

Main article: Table tennis at the 2012 Summer Olympics

Brazil qualified 6 athletes.

Men

Athlete	Event	Preliminary round	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Hugo Hoyama	Singles	Bye	Wang Z (POL) L 3–4	Did not advance
Gustavo Tsuboi		Bye	Ghosh (IND) L 2–4	Did not advance
Hugo Hoyama Thiago Monteiro Gustavo Tsuboi	Team	—				Hong Kong (HKG) L 0–3	Did not advance

Women

Athlete	Event	Preliminary round	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Caroline Kumahara	Singles	Farah (DJI) W 4–0	Parker (GBR) L 0–4	Did not advance
Lígia Silva		Lulu (VAN) W 4–0	Lay (AUS) L 1–4	Did not advance
Gui Lin Caroline Kumahara Lígia Silva	Team	—				South Korea (KOR) L 0–3	Did not advance

Taekwondo

Main article: Taekwondo at the 2012 Summer Olympics

Athlete	Event	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage	Bronze Medal	Final
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Diogo Silva	Men's −68 kg	Kim (UZB) W 3–2 SDP	Abu-Libdeh (JOR) W 7–5	Motamed (IRI) L 5–5 SUP	Bye	Jennings (USA) L 5–8	Did not advance	5
Natália Falavigna	Women's +67 kg	Lee I-J (KOR) L 9–13	Did not advance

Tennis

Main article: Tennis at the 2012 Summer Olympics

Brazil qualified four different players in the men's singles and doubles competitions.

Men

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Thomaz Bellucci	Singles	Tsonga (FRA) L 7–6(7–5), 4–6, 4–6	Did not advance
Marcelo Melo Bruno Soares	Doubles	—	Isner / Roddick (USA) W 6–2, 6–4	Berdych / Štěpánek (CZE) W 1–6, 6–4, 24–22	Llodra / Tsonga (FRA) L 4–6, 2–6	Did not advance
Thomaz Bellucci André Sá		—	B. Bryan / M. Bryan (USA) L 6–7(5–7), 7–6(7–5), 3–6	Did not advance

Triathlon

Main article: Triathlon at the 2012 Summer Olympics

Brazils qualified 2 men and 1 woman.

Athlete	Event	Swim (1.5 km)	Trans 1	Bike (40 km)	Trans 2	Run (10 km)	Total Time	Rank
Reinaldo Colucci	Men's	18:56	0:41	58:47	0:28	32:07	1:50:59	36
Diogo Sclebin		18:10	0:41	59:36	0:31	32:53	1:51:51	44
Pâmella Oliveira	Women's	18:27	0:42	1:08:16	0:36	36:01	2:04:02	30

Volleyball

Main article: Volleyball at the 2012 Summer Olympics

Beach

Athlete	Event	Preliminary round	Standing	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
		Opposition Score		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Alison Cerutti Emanuel Rego	Men's	Pool A  Doppler – Horst (AUT) W 2 – 1 (19–21, 21–17, 16–14)  Bellaguarda – Heuscher (SUI) W 2 – 0 (21–17, 21–12)  Lupo – Nicolai (ITA) W 2 – 0 (26–24, 21–18)	1 Q	Erdmann – Matysik (GER) W 2 – 0 (21–16, 21–14)	Fijałek – Prudel (POL) W 2 – 1 (21–17, 16–21, 17–15)	Pļaviņš – Šmēdiņš (LAT) W 2 – 0 (21–15, 22–20)	Brink – Reckermann (GER) L 1 – 2 (21–23, 21–16, 14–16)
Pedro Cunha Ricardo Santos		Pool F  Skarlund – Spinnangr (NOR) W 2 – 0 (21–14, 21–18)  Garcia Thompson – Grotowski (GBR) W 2 – 0 (21–17, 21–12)  Binstock – Reader (CAN) W 2 – 0 (21–18, 24–22)	1 Q	Gavira – Herrera (ESP) W 2 – 0 (21–18, 21–19)	Brink – Reckermann (GER) L 0 – 2 (15–21, 19–21)	Did not advance
Juliana Felisberta Larissa França	Women's	Pool A  Rigobert – Li Yuk Lo (MRI) W 2 – 0 (21–5, 21–10)  Holtwick – Semmler (GER) W 2 – 0 (21–18, 21–13)  Háječková – Klapalová (CZE) W 2 – 0 (21–12, 21–18)	1 Q	Meppelink – van Gestel (NED) W 2 – 0 (21–10, 21–17)	Goller – Ludwig (GER) W 2 – 0 (21–10, 21–19)	Kessy – Ross (USA) L 1 – 2 (21–15, 19–21, 12–15)	Xue – Zhang (CHN) W 2 – 1 (11–21, 21–19, 15–12)
Maria Antonelli Talita Antunes		Pool E  Meppelink – van Gestel (NED) W 2 – 0 (21–10, 21–19)  Goller – Ludwig (GER) W 2 – 1 (21–19, 29–31, 15–13)  Bawden – Palmer (AUS) W 2 – 1 (18–21, 21–16, 15–9)	1 Q	Kolocová – Sluková (CZE) L 1 – 2 (16–21, 22–20, 9–15)	Did not advance

Indoor

The men's team qualified in third place at the 2011 FIVB Men's World Cup. The women's team secured a berth after winning the South American qualification.

• Men's indoor event – 1 team of 12 players
• Women's indoor event – 1 team of 12 players

Men's tournament

Main article: Volleyball at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament

Team roster

Group play

Quarter-final

Semi-final

Gold medal match

Women's tournament

Main article: Volleyball at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament

Team roster

Group play

Quarter-final

Semi-final

Gold medal match

Weightlifting

Main article: Weightlifting at the 2012 Summer Olympics

Brazil qualified 1 man and 1 woman.

Athlete	Event	Snatch		Clean & Jerk		Total	Rank
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Fernando Reis	Men's +105 kg	180	13	220	12	400	12
Jaqueline Ferreira	Women's −75 kg	102	8	128	7	230	8

Wrestling

Main article: Wrestling at the 2012 Summer Olympics

Brazil qualified in the following event.

Key:

• VT – Victory by Fall.
• PP – Decision by Points – the loser with technical points.
• PO – Decision by Points – the loser without technical points.

Women's freestyle

Athlete	Event	Qualification	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Repechage 1	Repechage 2	Final / BM
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Joice Souza da Silva	−55 kg	Bye	Zholobova (RUS) L 0–3 PO	Did not advance					12

See also

• Brazil at the 2011 Pan American Games
• Brazil at the 2012 Winter Youth Olympics
• Brazil at the 2012 Summer Paralympics