Brazil at the Olympics

Brazil at the Olympics
IOC code	BRA
NOC	Brazilian Olympic Committee
Website	www.cob.org.br (in Portuguese)
Medals	Gold 30 Silver 36 Bronze 63 Total 129
Summer appearances
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
Winter appearances
1992 1994 1998 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018 2022

Brazil was first at the Olympic Games in 1920.

The International Olympic Committee's official abbreviation for Brazil is BRA.^[1]

History

Athletes from Brazil have been in every Summer Olympic Games since then, except the 1928 Games. Brazil has been in the Winter Olympic Games since 1992.

Brazilian athletes have won a total of 108 medals, with volleyball, sailing and judo as the top medal-producing sports.

The National Olympic Committee for Brazil was formed in 1914 and recognized in 1935. Brazil won the rights to host the 2016 Olympics in the city of Rio de Janerio.

Related pages

• List of IOC country codes

References

1. [https://web.archive.org/web/20181225173351/https://digital.la84.org/digital/collection/p17103coll8/id/27246/rec/29 Archived 2018-12-25 at the Wayback Machine "Official abbreviations" at The Games of the XVIII Olympiad, Tokyo, 1964, [p. 9 of 409 PDF]]; retrieved 2012-8-16.

Other websites

Media related to Brazil at the Olympic Games at Wikimedia Commons

• Brazil profile at London2012.com Archived 2012-08-15 at the Wayback Machine
• Brazil at Olympic.org