Brazil at the 1951 Pan American Games
IOC code	BRA
NOC	Brazilian Olympic Committee
Website	www.cob.org.br
in Buenos Aires February 25 - March 9,1951
Competitors	179 in 18 sports
Medals Ranked 5th	Gold 5 Silver 15 Bronze 12 Total 32
Pan American Games appearances (overview)
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Brazil competed at the inaugural edition of the 1951 Pan American Games held in Buenos Aires, Argentina from February 25 to March 9, 1951.

Medals

Medal Name(s) Sport Event Date Ref  Bronze Adilton Luz Athletics Men's high jump 27 February 1951 [1]  Silver Wilson Carneiro Athletics Men's 400m hurdles 28 February 1951 [1]  Bronze Sinibaldo Gerbasi Athletics Men's pole vault 1 March 1951 [1]  Gold Adhemar Ferreira da Silva Athletics Men's triple jump 2 March 1951 [1]  Silver Hélio da Silva Athletics Men's triple jump 2 March 1951 [1]  Bronze Nadim Marreis Athletics Men's shot put 2 March 1951 [1]  Silver Antenor da Silva Wrestling Men's freestyle light heavyweight (-87 kg) 3 March 1951 [1]  Bronze Elizabeth Müller Athletics Women's high jump 3 March 1951 [1]  Silver Vera Trezoitko Athletics Women's shot put 6 March 1951 [1]  Bronze Wanda dos Santos Athletics Women's long jump 6 March 1951 [1]  Silver Willy Otto Jordan Swimming Men's 200m breaststroke 6 March 1951 [1]  Bronze Men's basketball team Alberto Marson Alfredo da Motta Almir Nelson de Almeida Ardelin Pinto Hélio Marques Pereira José Luiz Azevedo Mario Jorge Fonseca Hermes Massinet Sorcinelli Paulo Rodrigues Siqueira Sebastião Gimenez Thales Monteiro Zenny de Azevedo Basketball Men's tournament 8 March 1951 [1]  Silver Paulo Sacoman Boxing Men's middleweight (-75 kg) 8 March 1951 [1]  Silver Lucio Grotone Boxing Men's light heavyweight (-81 kg) 8 March 1951 [1]  Bronze Estevão Molnar Fencing Men's sabre [1]  Bronze Estevão Molnar Frederico Taveira Serrão Hugler Matt Virgílio Damazio de Sá Fencing Men's sabre team [1]  Gold Eric Tinoco Marques Modern pentathlon Men's individual [1]  Silver Aloysio Alves Borges Edgard Manuel Brilhante Eduardo Lela de Medeiros Eric Tinoco Marques Modern pentathlon Men's team [1]  Silver Henrique Fusquini Walter Karl Rowing Men's coxless pair-oared shells [1]  Silver Alberto Santos Alvaro Fonseca Ivo Ritman Manoel Amorim Rowing Men's coxless four-oared shells [1]  Silver Jean Maligo Geraldo Matoso Sailing Snipe class [1]  Gold Roberto Bueno Gastão Pereira Souza Sailing Star class [1]  Silver Ademar Onéssimo Faller Adhaury Rocha Allan Sobocinski Pedro Simão Shooting Men's 25m rapid fire pistol team [1]  Silver Antônio Snizeck Edimar Eichemberg Guido Albertini Max Schrappe Shooting Men's skeet team [1]  Bronze Alberto Pereira Braga Allan Sobocinski Antônio Martins Guimarães Ernani Martins Neves João Sobocinski Shooting Men's military rifle prone team [1]  Gold Tetsuo Okamoto Swimming Men's 400m freestyle [1]  Gold Tetsuo Okamoto Swimming Men's 1500m freestyle [1]  Silver Aram Boghossian João Gonçalves Filho Ricardo Capanema Tetsuo Okamoto Swimming Men's 4 × 200 m freestyle relay [1]  Bronze Piedade Coutinho Swimming Women's 400m freestyle [1]  Bronze Ana Lucia Santa Rita Idamis Busin Piedade Coutinho Talita Rodrigues Swimming Women's 4 × 100 m freestyle relay [1]  Bronze Helena Stark Silvia Villari Tennis Women's doubles [1]  Silver Men's water polo team Alfonso Zaparoli Armando Caropresco Claudino de Castro Edson Peri Guilherme Schall Isaac Moraes João Havelange Leo Rossi Luiz Antônio dos Santos Milton Busin Nelson Brescia Samuel Schemberg Saverio Gregorut Water polo Men's tournament [1]

Medals by sport Sport Total Swimming 2 2 2 6 Athletics 1 3 5 9 Modern Pentathlon 1 1 0 2 Sailing 1 1 0 2 Shooting 0 2 1 3 Boxing 0 2 0 2 Rowing 0 2 0 2 Waterpolo 0 1 0 1 Wrestling 0 1 0 1 Fencing 0 0 2 2 Basketball 0 0 1 1 Tennis 0 0 1 1 Total 5 15 12 32

See also

• Brazil at the 1952 Summer Olympics
• List of Pan American medalists for Brazil

References

• (in Portuguese) Official website of the Brazilian Olympic Committee