Brazil competed at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, USSR. 106 competitors, 91 men and 15 women, took part in 72 events in 14 sports.
Lars Sigurd Bjorkström and Alexandre Welter — Sailing, Men's Tornado Team Competition
Marcos Soares and Eduardo Penido — Sailing, Men's 470 Team Competition
João Carlos de Oliveira — Athletics, Men's Triple Jump
Cyro Delgado, Jorge Fernandes, Djan Madruga and Marcus Mattioli — Swimming, Men's 4x200 metres Freestyle Relay
In its first Olympic archery competition, Brazil sent one woman and one man.
Women's Individual Competition:
Arci Kempner — 2186 points (→ 26th place)
Men's Individual Competition:
Renato Emilio — 2264 points (→ 27th place)
Men's 100 metres
Nelson dos Santos
Heat — 10.51
Quarterfinals — 10.45 (→ did not advance)
Katsuhiko Nakaya
Heat — 10.72
Quarterfinals — 10.70 (→ did not advance)
Milton de Castro
Heat — 10.74 (→ did not advance)
Men's 800 metres
Agberto Guimarães
Heat — 1:48.2
Semifinals — 1:46.9
Final — 1:46.2 (→ 4th place)
Men's 4x400 metres Relay
Paulo Roberto Correia, Antônio Dias Ferreira, Agberto Guimarães, and Geraldo José Pegado
Heat — 3:04.9
Final — 3:05.9 (→ 5th place)
Men's 400 m Hurdles
Antônio Dias Ferreira
Heat — 50.14
Semifinals — 52.31 (→ did not advance)
Men's High Jump
Claudio da Matta Freire
Qualification — 2.05 m (→ did not advance)
Men's Long Jump
João Carlos de Oliveira
Qualification — 7.78 m
Final — did not start (→ no ranking)
Men's Triple Jump
João Carlos de Oliveira
Qualification — 16.62 m
Final — 17.22 m (→ Bronze Medal)
Women's Pentathlon
Conceição Geremias — 4263 points (→ 14th place)
- 100 metres — 14.33s
- Shot Put — 13.16m
- High Jump — 1.71m
- Long Jump — 5.97m
- 800 metres — 2:18.90
Preliminary Round (Group A)
Defeated Czechoslovakia (72-70)
Lost to Soviet Union (88-101)
Defeated India (137-64)
Semi Final Round (Group A)
Defeated Cuba (94-93)
Lost to Spain (81-110)
Defeated Italy (90-77)
Lost to Yugoslavia (95-96) → 5th place
Team Roster:
André Ernesto Stoffel
Luiz Gustavo de Lage
José Carlos Santos Saiani
Milton Setrini
Wagner Machado da Silva
Marcos Abdalla Leite
Gilson Trindade de Jesus
Marcel Ramon de Souza
Adilson de Nascimento
Marcelo Vido
Oscar Schmidt
Ricardo Cardoso Guimarães
Men's Featherweight (– 57 kg)
Sidnei dal Rovere
First Round — Bye
Second Round — Defeated Narendra Poma (Nepal) after referee stopped contest in first round
Third Round — Defeated Leoul Nearaio (Ethiopia) on points (5-0)
Quarter Finals — Lost to Krzysztof Kosedowski (Poland) on points (0-5)
Men's Light-Welterweight (– 63,5 kg)
Jaime Franco
First Round — Lost to Anthony Willis (Great Britain) on points (0-5)
Men's Light-Middleweight (– 71 kg)
Francisco de Jesus
First Round — Defeated Mbemba Camara (Guinee) on points (5-0)
Second Round — Defeated Leo Vainonen (Finland) on points (5-0)
Third Round — Lost to Armando Martínez (Cuba) on points (0-5)
Men's Middleweight (– 75 kg)
Carlos Fonseca
First Round — Bye
Second Round — Lost to Mark Kaylor (Great Britain) on points (1-4)
Six cyclists represented Brazil in 1980.
Individual road race
Gilson Alvaristo
José Carlos de Lima
Fernando Louro
Davis Pereira
1000m time trial
Hans Fischer
Individual pursuit
Antônio Silvestre
Team pursuit
Hans Fischer
José Carlos de Lima
Fernando Louro
Antônio Silvestre
Men's Springboard
Milton Jorge Braga
Preliminary Round — 451.17 points (→ 22nd place, did not advance)
Men's Platform
Milton Jorge Braga
Preliminary Round — 373.06 points (→ 20th place, did not advance)
Men's 100m Freestyle
Cyro Delgado
Heats — 53,00 (→ did not advance)
Jorge Fernandes
Heats — 52,51
Semi-Finals — 52,91 (→ did not advance)
Men's 200m Freestyle
Cyro Delgado
Heats — 1.54,59 (→ did not advance)
Jorge Fernandes
Heats — 1.54,32 (→ did not advance)
Marcus Mattioli
Heats — 1.54,39 (→ did not advance)
Men's 400m Freestyle
Djan Madruga
Final — 3.54,15 (→ 4th place)
Men's 400m Individual Medley
Djan Madruga
Final — 4.26,81 (→ 5th place)
Men's 4 × 200 m Freestyle Relay
Jorge Fernandes, Marcus Mattioli, Cyro Delgado, and Djan Madruga
Final — 7.29,30 (→ Bronze Medal)
Men's 4 × 100 m Medley Relay
Rômulo Arantes, Sérgio Pinto Ribeiro, Cláudio Kestener, and Jorge Fernandes
Final — 3.53,23 (→ 8th place)
Preliminary Round (Group B)
Lost to Yugoslavia (2-3)
Lost to Romania (1-3)
Defeated Libya (3-0)
Defeated Poland (3-2)
Classification Matches
5th/8th place: Defeated Czechoslovakia (3-0)
5th/6th place: Defeated Yugoslavia (3-2) → 5th place
Team Roster
João Alves Granjeiro
Mario Xandó Oliveira Neto
Antonio Gueiros Badalhoca
José Montanaro
Antonio Carlos Moreno
Renan Dal Zotto
William Carvalho Silva
Amauri Ribeiro
Bernardo Rezende
Jean Luc Rosat
Deraldo Wanderley
Bernard Rajzman
Preliminary Round (Group B)
Lost to Hungary (2-3)
Lost to Bulgaria (0-3)
Lost to Romania (2-3)
Classification Match
7th/8th place: Defeated Romania (3-0) → 7th place
Team Roster
Denise Porto Mattioli
Ivonette Das Neves
Lenice Peluso Oliveira
Regina Vilela Santos
Fernanda Emerick Silva
Paula Rodrigues Mello
Isabel Salgado
Eliana Maria Aleixo
Maria Castanheira
Jackie Silva
Vera Mossa
Rita Cassia Teixeira
