Brazil competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, United States. 225 athletes – 159 men, 66 women – competed in 18 sports. The country set a record with both 15 medals – only surpassed in 2008 – and 3 golds – surpassed in 2004 with five. In the debutant beach volleyball, several remarkable achievements were earned when it happened the all-Brazilian final between Sandra Pires and Jackie Silva (who won gold) and Mônica Rodrigues and Adriana Samuel: Brazil has also won the first medal ever in Equestrian, when the team jumping conquered the bronze medal, marking also the first medal ever in a mixed gender Olympic event.

Summary

After 76 years since the debut of the country at the 1920 Summer Olympics, Brazilian women finally won Olympic medals. That happened for the first time in the all-Brazilians beach volleyball final between Sandra Pires and Jackie Silva (who won gold) and Mônica Rodrigues and Adriana Samuel. Beach volleyball competitions made its debut at 1996 Summer Olympics. The other two gold medals were both obtained in Sailing events. Robert Scheidt was gold medalist in the Laser class. Torben Grael and Marcelo Ferreira won Star class. It was the first medal of Robert Scheidt and the third medal of Torben Grael; both sailors are the onliest Brazilian athletes with the record of five Olympic medals (two of them are gold). Besides the two gold medals, a bronze medal was also obtained in sailing by Torben's brother Lars Grael and Kiko Pellicano in Tornado class. Brazil women's national basketball team, led by Hortência Marcari, Janeth Arcain and Maria Paula Silva, had a great performance, losing the gold medal match to host country United States women's national basketball team. It was the first medal won by women in Basketball. The swimmer Gustavo Borges obtained the silver medal in men's 200 metre freestyle and the bronze medal in 100 metre freestyle. The other medal obtained in swimmer was the bronze medal conquered by Fernando Scherer in men's 50 m freestyle. Brazil women's national volleyball team, finally won its first Olympic medal after a hard bronze medal match against Russia by 3 sets to 2. At the men's football tournament, the under-23 football team lost a dramatic semifinal to Nigeria by 4–3, after being winning the match by 3 to 0. In the bronze medal match, Brazil beat Portugal by 5–0. At the Judo events, Brazil won two bronze medals. The 1988 Olympic champion Aurélio Miguel obtained a medal in men's 95 kg category, while Henrique Guimarães was the medalist in men's 65 kg category. The bronze medal obtained by equestrians Luiz Felipe de Azevedo, André Johannpeter, Alvaro Miranda Neto and Rodrigo Pessoa in team jumping was the first of the History of the country not only in Equestrian as also in a mixed gender Olympic event, tough all 4 members of the team were men. Finally, Robson da Silva, Édson Ribeiro, André da Silva and Arnaldo da Silva obtained for the first time ever a medal in a relay event in Athletics, the bronze in the men's 4 × 100 metres relay.

Medalists

Multiple medallist

The following competitor won several medals at the 1996 Olympic Games.

Competitors

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

Athletics

Basketball

Men's tournament

Women's tournament

Boxing

Canoeing

Slalom

Sprint

Cycling

Road

Mountain biking

Equestrian

Eventing

Jumping

Football

Summary

Key:

Men's tournament

Head coach: Zagallo

Women's tournament

Head coach: José Duarte Brazil named a squad of 16 players and 2 alternates for the tournament. During the tournament, Kátia replaced Nilda due to injury.

Handball

Key:

Men's tournament

Judo

Rowing

Sailing

Shooting

Swimming

Table tennis

Tennis

Volleyball

Beach

Indoor

Men's tournament

Women's tournament

Weightlifting