Discover how many and in which editions of the Olympic Games Brazilian athletes stood on the podium and won gold, silver and bronze medals
The 2024 Olympic Games will take place in Paris, France, bringing together more than 200 National Olympic Committees (NOCs) around the world in sporting competitions across a range of disciplines, where the champions of each will be defined through the awarding of gold, silver and bronze medals.
Among the participating NOCs is the Brazilian Olympic Committee (COB), which has already sent 277 athletes to the Olympic Village, so that, between July 26 and August 11 of this year, they can climb the podiums and increase the national Olympic medal tally.
How many medals has Brazil won at the Olympic Games?
Since 1920 in the competition, Brazil has won 37 golds, 42 silvers and 71 bronzes, totaling 150 medals received in 23 editions competed.
The first medals were awarded in Brazil’s first time at the Olympic Games, in Antwerp, on August 2, 1920, Afranio da Costa won second place in the free pistol event (50m), and then went up to the podium to receive another medal, this time a bronze, alongside Fernando Soledad, Guilherme Paraense, Dario Barbosa It is Sebastian Wolf for placing third in the team event in the military pistol (50m).
As for the most recent medals, these were awarded in 2021, in Tokyo, where Brazilian athletes brought home 7 golds, 6 silvers and 8 bronzes, making this the edition of the Olympics in which Brazil won the most medals, totaling 21 podiums.
See all of Brazil’s medals by edition
- Antwerp (1920): 3 medals — one gold, one silver, one bronze;
- London (1948): 1 medal — a bronze;
- Helsinki (1952): 3 medals — one gold, two bronze;
- Melbourne (1956): 1 medal — one gold;
- Rome (1960): 2 medals — two bronze;
- Tokyo (1964): 1 medal — a bronze;
- Mexico City (1968): 3 medals — one silver, two bronze;
- Munich (1972): 2 medals — two bronze;
- Montreal (1976): 2 medals — two bronze;
- Moscow (1980): 4 medals — two gold and two bronze;
- Los Angeles (1984): 8 medals — one gold, five silver and two bronze;
- Seoul (1988): 6 medals — one gold, two silver and three bronze;
- Barcelona (1992): 3 medals — two golds and one silver;
- Atlanta (1996): 15 medals — three gold, three silver and nine bronze;
- Sydney (2000): 12 medals — six silver and six bronze;
- Athens (2004): 10 medals — five gold, two silver and three bronze;
- Beijing (2008): 17 medals — three gold, four silver and ten bronze.
- London (2012): 17 medals — three gold, five silver and nine bronze;
- Rio (2016): 19 medals — seven gold, six silver and six bronze;
- Tokyo (2020): 21 medals — seven gold, six silver and eight bronze.
Source: Recreio
