Brazil at the 2000 Summer Olympics

Brazil competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia.
Brazilian athletes won twelve medals: six silver and six bronze, in the first Summer Olympics edition without a gold medal since the 1976 Summer Olympics. The 205 competitors, 111 men and 94 women, took part in 96 events in 23 sports.

Summary

At the Judo competitions, two silver medals were obtained. Tiago Camilo lost in the final against Italian Giuseppe Maddaloni in men's 73 kg. Carlos Honorato lost the final of the men's 90 kg to Mark Huizinga from the Netherlands.
Brazilians sailors conquered two medals in Sailing. Current Olympic champion Robert Scheidt was silver medalist in the Laser class after a very tough competition against British gold medalist Ben Ainslie. The 1996 Olympic champions Torben Grael and Marcelo Ferreira were bronze medalists in Star class. It was Grael's fourth of five Olympic medals.
Brazil obtained four of those medals in Volleyball. Adriana Behar and Shelda Bede were silver medalists in Women's beach volleyball. They were current world champions and lost the gold medal match to Natalie Cook and Kerri Pottharst from Australia. Also in the women's competition, Brazilians Adriana Samuel and Sandra Pires were the bronze medalists. Zé Marco de Melo and Ricardo Santos were silver medalists of the men's beach volleyball competition losing the gold medal match to Americans Dain Blanton and Eric Fonoimoana. The indoor medal was the bronze conquered by Brazil women's national volleyball team, repeating the same result of the 1996 Summer Olympics, in a match of 3 sets to 0 against United States.
The bronze medal obtained by equestrians Luiz Felipe de Azevedo, André Johannpeter, Alvaro Miranda Neto and Rodrigo Pessoa in team jumping was the same result of the 1996 Olympics and with the same team.
The swimmers Fernando Scherer, Gustavo Borges, Carlos Jayme and Edvaldo Valério conquered the bronze medal in men's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay. It was Gustavo Borges' fourth Olympic medal, a record number among Brazilian swimmers.
Brazil women's national basketball team won the bronze medal in a match decided in extra-time against South Korea.
At the Athletics competition a silver medal was obtained in men's 4 × 100 metres relay, by sprinters Vicente de Lima, Édson Ribeiro, André da Silva and Claudinei da Silva. Cláudio Roberto Souza was also awarded a silver medal in the event because he took part in the relay in the heats.

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
	Tiago Camilo	Judo	Men's 73 kg
	Carlos Honorato	Judo	Men's 90 kg
	Adriana Behar Shelda Bede	Volleyball	Women's beach volleyball
	Zé Marco de Melo Ricardo Santos	Volleyball	Men's beach volleyball
	Robert Scheidt	Sailing	Laser class
	Vicente de Lima Édson Ribeiro André da Silva Claudinei da Silva Cláudio Roberto Souza	Athletics	Men's 4 × 100 metres relay
	Fernando Scherer Gustavo Borges Carlos Jayme Edvaldo Valério	Swimming	Men's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay
	Adriana Samuel Sandra Pires	Volleyball	Women's beach volleyball
	Luiz Felipe de Azevedo André Johannpeter Alvaro Miranda Neto Rodrigo Pessoa	Equestrian	Team jumping
		Sailing	Star class
	Brazil women's national volleyball team	Volleyball	Women's tournament
	Brazil women's national basketball team	Basketball	Women's tournament

Competitors

The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games.

Sport	Men	Women	Total
Athletics	15	3	18
Basketball	0	12	12
Beach volleyball	4	4	8
Boxing	6	–	6
Canoeing	4	0	4
Cycling	2	2	4
Diving	1	1	2
Equestrian	11	0	11
Fencing	1	0	1
Football	16	17	33
Gymnastics	0	8	8
Handball	0	14	14
Judo	7	5	12
Rowing	1	0	1
Sailing	9	3	12
Swimming	10	1	11
Synchronized swimming	–	2	2
Table tennis	2	1	3
Taekwondo	0	1	1
Tennis	2	2	4
Triathlon	3	3	6
Volleyball	12	12	24
Weightlifting	0	1	1
Total	106	92	198

Athletics

;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

;Men
;Track and road events
;Field events
;Women
;Field events

Basketball

Women's tournament

;Group play

Team	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Tie
	5	0	394	274	+120	10
	4	1	338	287	+51	9
	2	3	358	353	+5	7	1.12
	2	3	294	282	+12	7	0.97
	2	3	313	317	−4	7	0.91
	0	5	199	383	−184	5

;Quarterfinal
;Semifinal
;Bronze medal match

Canoeing

Sprint

;Men

Cycling

Road

;Men

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Murilo Fischer	Road race	5:52:47	88

;Women

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Janildes Fernandes	Road race	3:35:12	49
Cláudia Saintagne	Road race	3:24:19	44

Diving

;Men
;Women

Equestrianism

;Dressage
;Eventing
;Jumping

Fencing

One male fencer represented Brazil in 2000.
;Men

Football

;Summary

Men's tournament

;Roster
Head coach: Vanderlei Luxemburgo

Stand-by players

;Group play
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;Quarterfinal

Women's tournament

Head coach: José Duarte
Brazil named a squad of 18 players and 4 alternates for the tournament.
;Group play
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;Semifinal
;Bronze medal match

Gymnastics

Artistic

;Women

Handball

Summary
;Team roster

;Group play
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;Quarterfinal
;5th-8th place classification match
;7th place match

Sailing

Nine men and three women competed in the eight events in the Sailing competition in Sydney.
Men's Mistral

Ricardo Santos
# Race 1 – 5
# Race 2 – 10
# Race 3 – 21
# Race 4 – 12
# Race 5 – 22
# Race 6 – 4
# Race 7 – 8
# Race 8 – 14
# Race 9 – OCS
# Race 10 – 21
# Race 11 – 26
# Final – 117

Men's single-handed dinghy

Christoph Bergmann
# Race 1 – 10
# Race 2 – 8
# Race 3 – 3
# Race 4 –
# Race 5 – 11
# Race 6 – 13
# Race 7 – 9
# Race 8 – 2
# Race 9 – 18
# Race 10 –
# Race 11 – 10
# Final – 84

Men's double-handed dinghy

Andre Fonseca and Alexandre Paradeda
# Race 1 – 14
# Race 2 –
# Race 3 – 11
# Race 4 – 21
# Race 5 – 15
# Race 6 – 20
# Race 7 –
# Race 8 – 24
# Race 9 – 22
# Race 10 – 21
# Race 11 – 23
# Final – 171

Men's Laser

Robert Scheidt
# Race 1 – 1
# Race 2 – 2
# Race 3 –
# Race 4 – 1
# Race 5 – 12
# Race 6 – 1
# Race 7 – 20
# Race 8 – 5
# Race 9 – 1
# Race 10 – 1
# Race 11 – DSQ
# Final – 44

Men's Tornado

Henrique Pellicano and Mauricio Oliveira
# Race 1 – OCS
# Race 2 – 7
# Race 3 – 6
# Race 4 – 9
# Race 5 – 16
# Race 6 – 13
# Race 7 – OCS
# Race 8 – 5
# Race 9 – 6
# Race 10 – 5
# Race 11 – 11
# Final – 78

Men's two-handed keelboat

Marcelo Ferreira and Torben Grael
# Race 1 – 3
# Race 2 –
# Race 3 – 1
# Race 4 – 2
# Race 5 – 1
# Race 6 – 6
# Race 7 – 7
# Race 8 – 4
# Race 9 – 12
# Race 10 – 3
# Race 11 – OCS
# Final – 39

Women's Mistral

Christina Forte
# Race 1 – 24
# Race 2 – 22
# Race 3 –
# Race 4 – 26
# Race 5 – 24
# Race 6 – OCS
# Race 7 – 26
# Race 8 – 25
# Race 9 – 24
# Race 10 – 25
# Race 11 – 27
# Final – 223

Women's double-handed dinghy

Maria Krahe and Fernanda Oliveira
# Race 1 – 16
# Race 2 – 17
# Race 3 – 14
# Race 4 – 14
# Race 5 – 13
# Race 6 – DSQ
# Race 7 – 17
# Race 8 – 15
# Race 9 – OCS
# Race 10 – 19
# Race 11 – 18
# Final – 143

Swimming

Men's 50m freestyle

Fernando Scherer
# Preliminary heat – 22.88
Edvaldo Valério
# Preliminary heat – 22.96

Men's 100m freestyle

Fernando Scherer
# Preliminary heat – DNS
Gustavo Borges
# Preliminary heat – 49.76
# Semi-final – 49.93

Men's 200m freestyle

Rodrigo Castro
# Preliminary heat – 1:53.65

Men's 400m freestyle

Luiz Lima
# Preliminary heat – 03:53.87

Men's 1500m freestyle

Luiz Lima
# Preliminary heat – 15:23.15

Men's 100m breaststroke

Eduardo Fischer
# Preliminary heat – 01:03.72

Men's 100m backstroke

Alexandre Massura
# Preliminary heat – 55.58
# Semi-final – 56.07
Rogério Romero
# Preliminary heat – 56.44

Men's 200m backstroke

Rogério Romero
# Preliminary heat – 02:00.48
# Semi-final – 01:59.69
# Final – 01:59.27
Leonardo Costa
# Preliminary heat – 02:01.08
# Semi-final – 02:02.26

Men's 4 × 100 m freestyle

Fernando Scherer, Edvaldo Valério, Carlos Jayme, Gustavo Borges
# Preliminary heat – 03:19.29
# Final – 03:17.40

Men's 4 × 200 m freestyle

Edvaldo Valério, Leonardo Costa, Luiz Lima, Rodrigo Castro
# Preliminary heat – 07:26.42

Men's 4 × 100 m medley

Alexandre Massura, Eduardo Fischer, Fernando Scherer, Gustavo Borges
# Preliminary heat – 03:42.31

Women's 100m butterfly

Fabíola Molina
# Preliminary heat – 01:02.77

Women's 100m backstroke

Fabíola Molina
# Preliminary heat – 01:03.68

Synchronized swimming

;Women

Triathlon

At the inaugural Olympic triathlon competition, Brazil was represented by three men and three women. Two of the Brazilian women did not finish, giving Brazil the distinction of being one of only two nations to have multiple competitors not finish the race.
Men's individual competition:

Leandro Macedo – 1:49:50.69
Juraci Moreira – 1:50:44.79
Armando Barcellos – 1:53:42.63

Women's individual competition:

Sandra Soldan – 2:03:19.86
Mariana Ohata – DNF
Carla Moreno – DNF

Volleyball

Men's team competition

Preliminary round
*Defeated Australia
*Defeated Egypt
*Defeated Netherlands
*Defeated Spain
*Defeated Cuba
Quarterfinals
*Lost to Argentina
Classification matches
*5th/8th place: defeated Cuba
*5th/6th place: lost to Netherlands → sixth place
Team roster
*André Heller
*Dante Amaral
*Douglas Chiarotti
*Gilberto Godoy Filho
*Giovane Gávio
*Gustavo Endres
*Gilmar Teixeira
*Marcelo Elgarten
*Maurício Lima
*Max Pereira
*Nalbert Bitencourt
*Alexandre Samuel
Head coach: Radamés Lattari Filho

Women's team competition

Preliminary round
*Defeated Kenya
*Defeated Australia
*Defeated PR China
*Defeated Croatia
*Defeated United States
Quarterfinals
*Defeated Germany
Semifinals
*Lost to Cuba
Bronze-medal match
*Defeated United States → bronze medal
Team roster
*Elisângela Oliveira
*Erika Coimbra
*Hélia Souza
*Janina Conceição
*Karin Rodrigues
*Kátia Lopes
*Kely Fraga
*Leila Barros
*Raquel Silva
*Ricarda Lima
*Virna Dias
*Walewska Oliveira
Head coach: Bernardo Rezende