Brazil at the Paralympics
sporting event delegation
Brazil made its Paralympic Games debut at the 1972 Summer Paralympics in Heidelberg, sending representatives to compete in track and field, para-archery, para swimming and wheelchair basketball. The country has competed in every edition of the Summer Paralympics since.
As of 2026, Brazilian athletes have won a total of 467 Paralympic medals, among them 466 medals in 19 different Summer sports and 1 in a Winter sport, of which 135 gold, 161 silver and 171 bronze medals. This places the country 22nd on the all-time Paralympic Games medal table.
Brazil's first delegations experienced little success. No medals were won in 1972, and the country's only medal in 1976 was a silver, in the men's pairs in lawn bowls (through Robson S. Almeida and Luiz Carlos Costa). There were no medals either in 1980, but Brazilian Paralympians found notable success as from 1984, where they obtained their first gold: M. Ferraz won five silver medals and one gold in track and field; Márcia Malsar took three medals in para-athletics, of which the first gold for a Brazilian para athlete; Luiz Cláudio Pereira won four medals, of which two gold, in track and field; as did Amintas Piedade. Para swimmer Maria Jussara Matas obtained three medals, of which one gold, while Marcelo Amorim won four medals (three silver and a bronze), also in para swimming.
Pereira won three of Brazil's four gold medals in 1988, the fourth coming from para swimmer Graciana Moreira Alves. In 1992, four Brazilian para athletes each won a gold medal in track and field, while the country's two gold in 1996 were won in para swimming, with José Arnulfo Medeiros and para judo, with Antônio Tenório.
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