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Brazil has also participated in the Winter Olympic Games since 1992. Due to Brazil being mostly a tropical nation, to this date no Brazilian athlete has won an Olympic medal in the winter sports and the country's best result at the Winter Olympics was a ninth place by snowboarder Isabel Clark Ribeiro at the 2006 Winter Olympics.
This is the case of tennis at the 1968 Summer Olympics, with the Brazilian Suzana Petersen who competed in doubles with the Ecuadorian María Eugenia Guzmán and with the Soviet, born in Georgia Teimuraz Kakulia, winning three bronze medals by finishing in third place in the three modalities (singles, women's doubles and mixed doubles) [5] and ...
The 16-year-old Brazil's youngest-ever medalist had a score of 253.37, below the Japanese gold and silver medalists Coco Yoshizawa and Liz Akama. With the bronze medal she won in Paris, she became the youngest person in history, among men and women, to reach the podium in two different Olympics.
0–9. Brazil at the 1920 Summer Olympics; Brazil at the 1924 Summer Olympics; Brazil at the 1932 Summer Olympics; Brazil at the 1936 Summer Olympics
Brazil women's national basketball team competed as a host nation in the Olympic Basketball Tournament at the 2016 Rio Games after FIBA's Central Board decided to grant them an automatic place at its meeting in Tokyo on 9 August 2015. [11] Team roster. The following is the Brazil roster for the women's basketball tournament of the 2016 Summer ...
USWNT vs. Brazil Olympic history. The USWNT and Brazil have some history at the Olympics. The teams faced each other in the final in both 2004 and 2008, with the USWNT winning each time. Although ...
The board flips, slides and grinds of Brazil's youngest-ever medalist drew as much acclaim as she won the silver medal with a score of 14.64, below the gold medalist Japanese Momiji Nishiya with 15,26. Leal was the youngest athlete to win an Olympic medal since the 1936 Olympic Games and to date among the 10 youngest Olympic medalists ever. [6]
Caboclo scored 15 of Brazil’s first 31 points, helping it build a 16-point lead in the third quarter. But Japan rallied and got back within 77-73 entering the fourth. Brazil closed the game on a ...