Brazil at the 2016 Summer Paralympics

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Brazil is planning to send athletes to the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 7 September to 18 September 2016.

Support

In September 2015, a representative from the country attended the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games Chef de Mission seminar as part of the country's preparation efforts for the 2016 Games.[1][2]

Disability classifications

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Main article: Disability sport classification

Every participant at the Paralympics has their disability grouped into one of five disability categories; amputation, the condition may be congenital or sustained through injury or illness; cerebral palsy; wheelchair athletes, there is often overlap between this and other categories; visual impairment, including blindness; Les autres, any physical disability that does not fall strictly under one of the other categories, for example dwarfism or multiple sclerosis.[3][4] Each Paralympic sport then has its own classifications, dependent upon the specific physical demands of competition. Events are given a code, made of numbers and letters, describing the type of event and classification of the athletes competing. Some sports, such as athletics, divide athletes by both the category and severity of their disabilities, other sports, for example swimming, group competitors from different categories together, the only separation being based on the severity of the disability.[5]

Athletics

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Main article: Athletics at the 2016 Summer Paralympics

Petrúcio Ferreira is expected to be part of the Brazilian athletics delegation. When he was 18 years old, he broke the world record in the 200m T46/47 world record.[6]

Terezinha Guilhermina will defend her three paralympic championships.[6]

Archery

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Main article: Archery at the 2016 Summer Paralympics

Brazil automatically gets four berths at the 2016 Paralympics as the host nation, but had the ability to qualify additional athletes. At the 2015 World Archery Para Championships, several archers did just that. Francisco Cordeiro did this in the recurve men’s open third round, while Jane Karla Gogel did it in the compound women’s open and Fabíola Lorenzi Dergovics added an extra spot as a result of her performance in the recurve women’s open Paralympic secondary tournament.[7]

Boccia

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Main article: Boccia at the 2016 Summer Paralympics

Brazil qualified for the 2016 Summer Paralympics in this sport at the Montreal hosted 2015 BisFed Americas Pair and Team championship in the Pairs BC3 event. They claimed gold ahead of silver medalist Canada and bronze medalists Colombia.[8][9]

Dirceu José Pinto goes to the Rio Games as the reigning 2008 and 2012 individual BC4 and pairs BC4 gold medalist.[6]

Football 5-a-side

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Main article: Football 5-a-side at the 2016 Summer Paralympics

Brazil qualified for the Paralympics by virtue of being hosts. They also qualified in their own right by winning the IBSA Blind Football World Championships 2014 in Tokyo, Japan. They would also have qualified by virtue of winning the 2015 Parapan American Games in Toronto, Canada, the regional qualifier for the Americas.[10][11][12][13]

Football 7-a-side

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Main article: Football 7-a-side at the 2016 Summer Paralympics
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Brazil during halftime at a game in the IFCPF Pre Paralympic Tournament Salou 2016, the last major preparation tournament for the Rio Games.

Brazil automatically qualified as the host country.[14][15] Jan Francisco Brito da Costa is the best player for Brazil, and dominated at the 2015 World Championships. His team finished third at the 2015 CP Football World Championships.[6]

The draw for the tournament was held on May 6 at the 2016 Pre Paralympic Tournament in Salou, Spain. Brazil was put into Group A with Ukraine, Great Britain and Ireland.[16] The tournament where the draw took place featured 7 of the 8 teams participating in Rio. It was the last major preparation event ahead of the Rio Games for all teams participating.[17] Brazil finished second, after losing 0 - 2 to the Ukraine in the 1st place match.[18] Their roster for this tournament included Moacir Fernando Silva Matos, Jonatas Santos Machado, Felipe Rafael Silva Gomes, Jose Carlos Monteiro Guimarães, Diego Delgado da Silva, Leandro Gonçalves do Amaral, Fabrizo Arlindo N.de Oliveira, Evandro De O.Gomes de Souza, Wanderson Silva de Oliveira, Gabriel Brian D’angelo Santos, and Gilvano Diniz da Silva.[19]

Going into the Rio Games, the country was ranked third in the world.[20]

Goalball

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Main article: Goalball at the 2016 Summer Paralympics

Men

Romário Diego Marques is one of the members of the Brazil men's national goalball team. He is expected to be on the roster for Rio, after having been part of the silver medal winning team at the 2012 Summer Paralympics and the gold medal winning team at the 2014 IBSA Goalball World Championships.[6] The team automatically qualified as hosts, but they would have qualified in their own right as winners of the 2014 IBSA Goalball World Championships.[21][22][23]

Women

The Brazil women's national goalball team qualified for the Rio Games as hosts of the competition. They would have qualified in their own right after finishing second at the 2015 Parapan American Games. [21][24][23]

Rowing

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Main article: Rowing at the 2016 Summer Paralympics

One pathway for qualifying for Rio involved having a boat have top eight finish at the 2015 FISA World Rowing Championships in a medal event. Brazil qualified for the 2016 Games under this criteria in the AS Men's Single Sculls event with a seventh place finish in a time of 04:57.010.[25][26]

Shooting

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Main article: Shooting at the 2016 Summer Paralympics

The last direct qualifying event for Rio in shooting took place at the 2015 IPC Shooting World Cup in Fort Benning in November. Alexandre Galgani earned a qualifying spot for their country at this competition in the R4 Mixed 10m Air Rifle Standing SH2 event.[27][28]

Sitting volleyball

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Main article: Sitting volleyball at the 2016 Summer Paralympics

Men

Brazil men's national sitting volleyball team qualified for the 2016 Games as the host nation.[29]

Women

Brazil women's national sitting volleyball team qualified for the 2016 Games as the host nation.[29]

Swimming

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Main article: Swimming at the 2016 Summer Paralympics

Daniel Dias is a favorite Brazilian swimmer going into the Rio Paralympics.[6] Brazilian swimmers competed at the 2015 IPC Swimming World Championships as part of their Rio readiness efforts. Matheus Sousa was one swimmer who set an A-Qualifying time at the event, finishing second on the men's S11 100-metre freestyle event with a time 0:59.20.[30]

Wheelchair basketball

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Main article: Wheelchair basketball at the 2016 Summer Paralympics

Men

The Brazil men's national wheelchair basketball team has qualified for the 2016 Rio Paralympics by virtue of being the host nation.[31]

Women

The Brazil women's national wheelchair basketball team has qualified for the 2016 Rio Paralympics.[31]

Wheelchair rugby

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Main article: Wheelchair basketball at the 2016 Summer Paralympics

The Brazil national wheelchair rugby team has qualified for the 2016 Rio Paralympics by virtue of being the host nation.[13]

See also

References

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