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Overview of sports traditions and activities in Brazil

Sports in Brazil are those that are widely practiced and popular in the ❤️ country, as well as others which originated there or have some cultural significance.

Brazilians are heavily involved in sports.

Football is the ❤️ most popular sport in Brazil.

Other than football, sports like volleyball, mixed martial arts, basketball, tennis, and motor sports, especially Formula ❤️ One, enjoy high levels of popularity.

Great players like Neymar have devoted their life to sports and became a celebrity.

Sports [ ❤️ edit ]

Pelé celebrating the victory of Brazil in the FIFA World Cup.

Football is the most popular sport in Brazil.

The Brazil ❤️ national football team, governed by the Confederação Brasileira de Futebol, has won the FIFA World Cup a record 5 times, ❤️ in 1958, 1962, 1970, 1994, and 2002,[1] and is the only team to succeed in qualifying for every FIFA World ❤️ Cup competition ever held.

Brazil also hosted the 1950 and 2014 World Cups, becoming the only country in South America to ❤️ have hosted two World Cups (Argentina, Uruguay, and Chile being the other former hosts).

It is among the favorites to win ❤️ the trophy every time the competition is scheduled.

After Brazil won its third World Cup in 1970, they were awarded the ❤️ Jules Rimet Trophy, when Pelé, one of the most recognized football players in history and all-time top scorer in the ❤️ sport, led Brazil to three of those championships.

The national football team has also won the Copa América 9 times, the ❤️ Olympic football tournament twice and is the most successful team in the FIFA Confederations Cup, with 4 titles.

All of the ❤️ leading players in the national teams are prominent in the football world, including Pelé, Zico, Garrincha, Ronaldo, Roberto Carlos, Romário, ❤️ Ronaldinho, Taffarel, Falcão, Rivaldo and Neymar in the men's game, and Marta in the women's game.

Some of these players can ❤️ be considered super-stars, achieving celebrity status internationally and signing multi-million club contracts, as well as advertisement and endorsement deals.

Brazil invented ❤️ some variations of football, such as beach soccer and footvolley.

Futsal, having been invented in Uruguay, neighboring Brazil, is also widely ❤️ practiced in the country, mainly in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, neighboring Uruguay.[2]

In futsal, Brazil is one of ❤️ the greatest world powers.

Before the Fifa Era, there were three World Cups, organized by the former International Federation of Indoor ❤️ Soccer (Fifusa), where Brazil was world champion twice.

Brazil is the biggest champion of the FIFA Futsal World Cup, with 5 ❤️ titles.

Falcão is the most renowned male Brazilian player.[3]

In beach soccer, Brazil is among the world's greatest powers, being the biggest ❤️ champion of the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup, with 5 titles.

In addition, it has nine world titles from the former ❤️ competition organized by Beach Soccer Worldwide (BSWW), the Beach Soccer World Championships.[4]

Footvolley is a recreational sport widely practiced on Brazilian ❤️ beaches, mainly in Rio de Janeiro, where it was invented.

It was created by Octavio de Moraes in the 1970s.

It is ❤️ a mix of football and volleyball, where the players must use their feet and head to get the ball over ❤️ the net and into the opponent's side, and is played on the beaches.

It is one of the most popular beach ❤️ sports in Brazil.

Footvolley started out with 5 players on each team but later got cut to 2 players on each ❤️ team and is still so to this day.

[5]Capoeira [ edit ]

Capoeira is an Afro-Brazilian martial art that combines elements of ❤️ dance and music, and is marked by deft, tricky movements that are often played on the ground or completely inverted.

It ❤️ also has a strong acrobatic component in some versions and is always played with music.

It is a culturally significant sport, ❤️ developed in colonial times by slaves.

Nowadays, capoeira is practiced internationally and found its way into popular culture, through many computer ❤️ games and movies.

Brazilian jiu-jitsu, vale tudo, and mixed martial arts [ edit ]

Mixed martial arts is one of the most ❤️ popular sports in Brazil.

It is considered to be only behind football in terms in national popularity.[6]

Brazilian jiu-jitsu originated in Brazil ❤️ in the 1910s, and emphasizes ground fighting techniques and submission holds involving joint-locks and chokeholds.

Hélio Gracie had a rather small ❤️ build and changed jiu-jitsu (originating from Japan) to be used by anyone in a real fight situation.

The belt progression system ❤️ goes in the following order: White, Blue, Purple, Brown, Black, Red-black, and Red.

Gracie Jiu Jitsu became known internationally in the ❤️ 1990s, due to the very skilled fighters in the Gracie family, namely Hélio Gracie, Royce Gracie, and Rickson Gracie, which ❤️ are also responsible for spreading the practice of vale tudo, meaning "anything goes", which evolved into mixed martial arts tournaments ❤️ such as PRIDE, DREAM, and the Ultimate Fighting Championship.

Many Brazilian fighters have become significant figures in various mixed martial art ❤️ tournaments abroad, some notable Brazilian fighters in these tournaments include Anderson Silva, Wanderlei Silva, Antônio Rodrigo Nogueira, Vitor Belfort, Mauricio ❤️ Rua, José Aldo, Murilo Bustamante, Junior dos Santos, Rafael dos Anjos, Fabricio Werdum, Lyoto Machida, Alex Pereira and Amanda Nunes.

[7][8][9][10]Volleyball ❤️ [ edit ]

Giba is the most popular volleyball player of Brazil.

Sheilla is considered one of the greatest players in the ❤️ country's history.

Brazil is the most successful country in volleyball.[11][12][13]

The Brazil men's national volleyball team is currently the champion in 3 ❤️ competitions, the Volleyball World Cup, the Volleyball World Championship and the Olympic Volleyball Tournament, and is ranked number 1 in ❤️ the FIVB World Rankings.

Here is a record for achievements of the Brazilian men's volleyball team:Olympics:

Gold (1992, 2004, 2016)

Silver (1984, 2008, ❤️ 2012)World Championship:

Gold (2002, 2006, 2010)

Silver (1982, 2014, 2018)Bronze (2022)World Cup:

Gold (2003, 2007, 2019)

Gold (1993, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, ❤️ 2009, 2010)Gold (2021)

Gold (1997, 2005, 2009, 2013, 2017)

The Brazil women's national volleyball team is ranked number 4 in the FIVB ❤️ World Rankings.

Here is a record for achievements of the Brazilian women's volleyball team:Olympics:Gold (2008, 2012)Silver (2020)Bronze (1996, 2000)World Championship:

Silver (1994, ❤️ 2006, 2010, 2022)Bronze (2014)

Gold (1994, 1996, 1998, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2013, 2014, 2017)

Silver (2019, 2021, 2022)Gold (2005, 2013)

Brazilian ❤️ younger teams maintain the same success rate as the senior squads.

As of March 25, 2007, in the FIVB men ranking ❤️ for junior and youth, Brazil is placed first for women, while the men are placed second.

Today, Brazil is the ruling ❤️ country in volleyball, and it is Brazil's second most popular sport.

Brazil has professional volleyball team competitions: the Superliga Masculina de ❤️ Vôlei and its female counterpart, Superliga Feminina de Vôlei.

Among the most successful teams are Minas, Banespa, and Santo André for ❤️ the male league, and Rexona, Osasco, and Flamengo for the female league.

Beach Volleyball [ edit ]

Brazil is one of the ❤️ strongest countries in the world in beach volleyball, a sport widely practiced in the country due to its long coastline, ❤️ mainly in Rio de Janeiro, on the coast of Santa Catarina, and in the Northeast Region of the country.

Until the ❤️ 2020 Olympic Games, the country had 2 golds, 3 silvers and 1 bronze in the men's modality, and 1 gold, ❤️ 4 silvers and 2 bronzes in the women's modality.

In world championships, Brazil has already won numerous titles.

[14]Basketball [ edit ]

Hortência ❤️ Marcari is one of Brazil's best basketball players.

Basketball is the third most popular sport in Brazil.

The Brazilian national basketball team ❤️ has won the Basketball World Championship twice, in 1959 and 1963.

They have also been runners-up on two occasions in 1954 ❤️ and 1970, as well as coming third on two occasions in 1967 and 1978, meaning that the Brazilian national basketball ❤️ team has won in total six medals at the Basketball World Championship.

The Brazilian national basketball team has also won three ❤️ Olympic bronze medals (1948, 1960, 1964) and total of nine medals at the FIBA Americas Championship, three gold (1984, 2005, ❤️ 2009) two silver (1988, 2001), and four bronze (1989, 1992, 1995, 1997).

Oscar Schmidt is the most renowned male Brazilian player, ❤️ and Hortência Marcari the most renowned female.

Both were inducted to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame and the FIBA ❤️ Hall of Fame.[15][16]

The major basketball leagues are called Novo Basquete Brasil – the men's tournament – and Liga de Basquete ❤️ Feminino – the female tournament.

Various famous Brazilian players play in those leagues.

In addition, on the men's side, various players are ❤️ competing in the National Basketball Association and European leagues.

A record nine Brazilians were on NBA rosters at the start of ❤️ the 2015–16 season-Leandro Barbosa, Bruno Caboclo, Cristiano Felício, Marcelo Huertas, Nenê, Raul Neto, Lucas Nogueira, Tiago Splitter, and Anderson Varejão.

[17] ❤️ On the women's side, players like Izi Castro Marques and Érika de Souza compete in the WNBA.

Motorsport [ edit ]

Autódromo ❤️ José Carlos Pace, venue for the Brazilian Grand Prix.

Ayrton Senna, the most successful Brazilian driver in Formula One.

Brazil has produced ❤️ three Formula One world champions: Emerson Fittipaldi (1972 and 1974), Nelson Piquet (1981, 1983 and 1987), and Ayrton Senna (1988, ❤️ 1990 and 1991).

In total, Brazilian drivers have won 101 Formula One races (as of the 2009 Italian Grand Prix), distributed ❤️ between Senna (41), Piquet (23), Fittipaldi (14), Felipe Massa (11), Rubens Barrichello (11), and José Carlos Pace (1).

In 1994, Brazil ❤️ declared three days of national mourning after Senna's death during the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix.

From Emerson Fittipaldi's debut in ❤️ 1970 to Felipe Massa's retirement in 2017, there were 48 consecutive Formula One seasons with at least one Brazilian driver.

As ❤️ of the 2022 season, Massa is the last Brazilian driver to have competed full-time in Formula One.

The Brazilian Grand Prix ❤️ has been on the Formula One calendar since 1972, currently held in October or November.

Two circuits have been host to ❤️ the race: Jacarepagua and Interlagos.

The Jacarepagua circuit, located in Rio de Janeiro, hosted the 1978 race, and then between 1981 ❤️ and 1989.

From 1972 to 1977, in 1979 and 1980, and from 1990 to the present, the Grand Prix has been ❤️ held at the Interlagos circuit in São Paulo.

One Formula One team has been based in Brazil: Fittipaldi Automotive, owned by ❤️ Emerson Fittipaldi and his brother Wilson.

The team competed from 1974 to 1982.

Brazil has produced several notable drivers in American open-wheel ❤️ car racing, some of whom also competed in Formula One.

Emerson Fittipaldi was the 1989 CART champion, Gil de Ferran was ❤️ the 2000 CART and 2001 CART champion, Cristiano da Matta was the 2002 CART champion and the Tony Kanaan was ❤️ 2004 IndyCar Series champion.

Brazilian drivers have won the Indianapolis 500, the most prestigious race in American open-wheel racing, eight times: ❤️ Emerson Fittipaldi in 1989 and 1993; Hélio Castroneves in 2001, 2002, 2009 and 2021; Gil de Ferran in 2003; and ❤️ Tony Kanaan in 2013.

Castroneves is one of only four drivers two have won the Indianapolis 500 four times, and the ❤️ only one from a country other than the United States.

Two American open-wheel races have been held in Brazil: CART hosted ❤️ the Rio 400 (later the Rio 200) at Jacarepagua from 1996 to 2000, and the IndyCar Series hosted the São ❤️ Paulo Indy 300 from 2010 to 2013.

In the sports car racing scene, Raul Boesel won the 1987 World Sportscar Championship ❤️ and got close to winning the 1991 Le Mans 24 Hours, when he was second, and Ricardo Zonta won the ❤️ 1998 FIA GT Championship.

Boesel was part of the winning team at the 1988 Daytona 24 Hours, a race which was ❤️ also won by fellow Brazilians Christian Fittipaldi (twice, in 2004 and 2014), Oswaldo Negri (2012), Kanaan (2015) and Pipo Derani ❤️ (2016).

Fittipaldi also won the United SportsCar Championship in 2014 and 2015, alongside Portuguese team-mate João Barbosa.

Also the Mil Milhas Brasil, ❤️ an endurance race, has the longest history in the Brazilian racing events.Nelson Piquet Jr.

was the inaugural Formula E champion in ❤️ 2014-15 and Lucas Di Grassi won 2016-17 with Audi Abt Sportsline .

The popularity of auto racing is rising, with the ❤️ Stock Car Brasil and Fórmula Truck being broadcast nationally.

The South American Formula Three series was mostly held in Brazil until ❤️ 2013, and developed several South American circuit drivers.

In 2014 it was succeeded by a revived Brazilian Formula Three Championship.

In motorcycle ❤️ racing, the most prominent Brazilian racer in MotoGP as of now is Alex Barros, who is the most experienced racer ❤️ of all time in the category, with 276 race starts and seven wins.

The Brazilian motorcycle Grand Prix was held four ❤️ times between 1987 and 1992, followed by the Rio de Janeiro motorcycle Grand Prix which was held nine times between ❤️ 1995 and 2004.

Tennis [ edit ]

Maria Esther Bueno is the most successful Brazilian tennis player at the Grand Slam tournaments.

She ❤️ won seven single titles (four wins at the US Open and three at Wimbledon) and twelve doubles titles (five at ❤️ Wimbledon, four at the US Open, two in the Roland Garros, including a mixed doubles title).

In the men's game, Gustavo ❤️ Kuerten is the most successful Brazilian player, with three wins at Roland Garros (1997, 2000, 2001) as well as being ❤️ ranked number one in the world for almost a full year.

However, bad administration and lack of serious support resulted in ❤️ poor results in the present years and scarcity of national-level competitiveness.

Beatriz Haddad Maia is the first Brazilian woman to enter ❤️ the world's top 20 in the Open Era.[18]

Brazil has also had other historically important players, such as Luiz Mattar, Fernando ❤️ Meligeni and Thomaz Bellucci, who were already top 30 in the ATP rankings.[19]

In the country, Doubles has been stronger, especially ❤️ with Marcelo Melo, Bruno Soares and Luisa Stefani.

Melo has been ranked No.

1 in the ATP Doubles Rankings and Soares has ❤️ achieved a peak ranking of No.2.

Stefani was the first Brazilian woman to reach the world's top 10 in the Open ❤️ Era.

Melo won his first Grand Slam title in Roland Garros and his second in Wimbledon.

He has also reached at least ❤️ the semifinals of all four Grand Slams, has won 9 Masters 1000 titles and reached the doubles final on the ❤️ ATP World Tour Finals.

In 2009, he reached the mixed doubles final at the French Open with American Vania King, becoming ❤️ the seventh Brazilian to reach the final of a Grand Slam and the first since Gustavo Kuerten.

Soares won the 2016 ❤️ Australian Open and US Open Men's Doubles with Jamie Murray, 2020 US Open Men's Doubles with Mate Pavić, the US ❤️ Open Mixed Doubles title in 2012 (with Ekaterina Makarova) and 2014 (with Sania Mirza), and the 2016 Australian Open Mixed ❤️ Doubles with Elena Vesnina.

He also has 4 Masters 1000 titles (a double championship at Canada's Masters 1000 in 2013 and ❤️ 2014, the Cincinnati Masters 1000 in 2018 and the Shanghai Masters 1000 in 2019).

[20][21]Swimming [ edit ]

Cielo at the 2009 ❤️ US National Championships in Indianapolis.

Swimming is very popular in Brazil.

Being a sport usually recommended for children, and suitable for a ❤️ country with a tropical climate like Brazil, swimming has grown and started to produce important sporting icons.

Although the country had ❤️ some success with swimmers like Piedade Coutinho, Tetsuo Okamoto, Manuel dos Santos and José Fiolo, the sport started to become ❤️ more popular with Djan Madruga, Rômulo Arantes and Ricardo Prado in 1970s and 1980s; going through Gustavo Borges and Fernando ❤️ Scherer in the 1990s, Brazilian swimming today manufactures great talents in succession.[22][23]

Today Brazil has one of the best swimmers in ❤️ the world, César Cielo, who is an Olympic champion, world champion and world record holder; olympic medalists like Thiago Pereira, ❤️ Bruno Fratus and Fernando Scheffer; swimmers like Felipe França and Kaio de Almeida who managed to beat world records in ❤️ their events, as well as medalists in World Championships, such as Nicholas Santos, João Gomes Júnior, Felipe Lima and Guilherme ❤️ Costa.

Even female swimming has been developing and creating athletes like Etiene Medeiros, Ana Marcela Cunha and Poliana Okimoto.

With the multiplication ❤️ of the emergence of talents, swimming has been standing out and conquering its space.

Brazil hosted the 1995 FINA World Swimming ❤️ Championships (25 m) and won the 2014 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m).

[24][25]Athletics [ edit ]

Fabiana Murer in 2011.

Athletics is ❤️ a traditional sport in Brazil, winning Olympic medals for the country.

In athletics, the best known athletes are Adhemar Ferreira da ❤️ Silva, João Carlos de Oliveira, Joaquim Cruz, Robson Caetano, Maurren Maggi and Fabiana Murer.

Other important athletes in the history of ❤️ Brazil are: Thiago Braz, Alison dos Santos, Nélson Prudêncio, Jadel Gregório, Zequinha Barbosa, Sanderlei Parrela, Claudinei Quirino , Vicente de ❤️ Lima, André Domingos, Édson Ribeiro, Vanderlei Cordeiro de Lima, Caio Bonfim, Rosângela Santos, Letícia Oro Melo, Mauro Vinícius da Silva ❤️ and Darlan Romani.[26][27][28]

In Brazil, athletics tends to lose many practitioners to football, who grant better salaries to athletes.

It's one of ❤️ the reasons why the country has less global prominence in events such as the 100 metres.

The sport is usually concentrated ❤️ in some clubs specializing in athletics, and also receives attention and support from the country's Armed Forces.

Brazil has a tradition ❤️ in events such as triple jump and hosts important long-distance running events, such as Saint Silvester Road Race.

Judo [ edit ❤️ ]

Judo is another sport usually recommended for children in Brazil, and therefore it is widely practiced.

The country has a growing ❤️ international tradition in the sport, constantly winning medals and titles.

The sport was brought and developed by its large Japanese community.

The ❤️ greatest exponents of the sport until today were Aurélio Miguel, Sarah Menezes and Rogério Sampaio, Olympic champions.

Brazil also had several ❤️ other important judô athletes, such as the Olympic runners-up Douglas Vieira, Tiago Camilo, Carlos Honorato, and the Olympic bronze medalists ❤️ Chiaki Ishii, Luiz Onmura, Walter Carmona, Henrique Guimarães, Leandro Guilheiro, Flávio Canto, Ketleyn Quadros, Felipe Kitadai, Mayra Aguiar, Daniel Cargnin ❤️ and Rafael Silva.

[29][30][31]Handball [ edit ]

Handball is a sport that came with German immigrants, which is very popular in schools ❤️ around the world.

It's the second most practiced sport in schools in Brazil, second only to football / futsal.

The national team ❤️ is considered the best in South America, and the sport is gaining in media coverage.

Brazil women's national handball team were ❤️ crowned world champions for the first time at the 2013 World Championship.

They also finished 5th at the 2016 Summer Olympics.[32][33]

Beach ❤️ handball [ edit ]

At the Beach Handball World Championships Brazil has more titles for both genders than any country.[34]Boxing [ ❤️ edit ]

Boxing is another popular sport, especially in Northeast Brazil; it's considered a sport of the working class.

Eder Jofre, Acelino ❤️ Freitas, Maguila, Miguel de Oliveira, Valdemir Pereira, Rose Volante and Patrick Teixeira are former world champions.

In the Olympics, Brazil won ❤️ the gold medal in the category of up to 60 kg with the fighter Robson Conceição, being the first Olympic ❤️ gold in Brazilian boxing.

Hebert Conceição was also an Olympic champion.

Other Olympic medalists in Brazil were Servílio de Oliveira, Yamaguchi Falcão, ❤️ Esquiva Falcão, Abner Teixeira, Adriana Araújo and Beatriz Ferreira.

Another famous boxer in Brazil was Maguila, a heavyweight who came to ❤️ face Evander Holyfield and George Foreman.[35][36]

Skateboarding [ edit ]

Skateboarding is a popular sport in Brazil.

According to a study of 2019, ❤️ the estimated number of skateboarders in Brazil was close to 8.

5 million (the majority in the state of São Paulo).

[37] ❤️ Many of the world's top skateboarders are Brazilian, including Bob Burnquist, Sandro Dias, Lincoln Ueda, Rodrigo Menezes, Luan de Oliveira, ❤️ Felipe Gustavo, Rodil Ferrugem, Nilton Neves, Fabrizio Santos, Alex Carolino, Christiano Mateus, Karen Jones, Ricardo Porva, Daniel Vieira, and Og ❤️ de Souza.

Fabiola da Silva is well known for aggressive inline skating.[38]

With the rise of skateboarding to the category of Olympic ❤️ sport in 2020, Rayssa Leal became famous for her silver medal obtained at the age of 13.

Pedro Barros and Kelvin ❤️ Hoefler also won Olympic medals.

Other famous skaters like Pâmela Rosa and Letícia Bufoni also stand out.

[39]Surfing [ edit ]

Surfing is ❤️ one of the most popular aquatic sports in Brazil, with several professional Brazilian surfers competing in the men's and women's ❤️ ASP World Tour, including former world champions Gabriel Medina and Adriano de Souza.

Brazil is known for producing longboard surfers (such ❤️ as former world champion Phil Razjman), big-rider surfers (such as Carlos Burle and two-time XXL award winner Maya Gabeira) and ❤️ well-known bodyboarders.

Brazilian surfing has progressively evolved to become one of the biggest forces in the sport in the world.

Fábio Gouveia ❤️ reached number 5 in the world in 1992.

In the 2010s, the Brazilian Storm appears, with several Brazilians getting closer and ❤️ closer to the world title, until Gabriel Medina conquers the same in 2014 and Adriano de Souza wins in 2015.

In ❤️ 2020 surfing ascends to the category of Olympic sport and Ítalo Ferreira becomes Olympic champion.

Filipe Toledo was also world champion, ❤️ in 2022.[40][41]

Yachting and Equestrianism [ edit ]

Despite yachting and equestrianism being inaccessible sports for the general population, Brazil has a ❤️ great tradition in yachting, and, to a lesser extent, but no less important, tradition in equestrianism.

The biggest center for these ❤️ sports in Brazil is Rio de Janeiro and its neighboring city Niterói.

Several Olympic medalists in yachting have trained in Guanabara ❤️ Bay, such as Martine Grael, Clinio Freitas, Daniel Adler, Eduardo Penido, Isabel Swan, Kiko Pellicano, Marcelo Ferreira, Marcos Soares, Nelson ❤️ Falcão and Ronaldo Senfft.

The country also has olympic medalists from São Paulo Robert Scheidt, Torben Grael, Kahena Kunze, Reinaldo Conrad, ❤️ Alexandre Welter, Bruno Prada and Peter Ficker.

In equestrianism, the Gávea Hippodrome trained athletes such as Rodrigo Pessoa and his father ❤️ Nelson Pessoa, as well as Luiz Felipe de Azevedo; the country also has olympic medalists from São Paulo Álvaro de ❤️ Miranda Neto and from Rio Grande do Sul André Johannpeter.[42]Chess [ edit ]

Chess is a sport with many fans in ❤️ Brazil.

Henrique Mecking, known as Mequinho, is considered the most important Brazilian chess player, having reached his peak in 1977, when ❤️ he was considered the third best player in the world, surpassed only by Anatoly Karpov and Viktor Korchnoi.

More recently, in ❤️ an online blitz game played in May 2020, Luis Paulo Supi defeated reigning World Champion Magnus Carlsen in 18 moves ❤️ after sacrificing his own Queen.

[43] The match received worldwide attention as Carlsen broadcast it live, and was left speechless after ❤️ his defeat.

[44] In April 2021, Chess.

com awarded that game the first spot in their Chess.

com Immortal Game Contest.[45][46][47]

Table tennis [ ❤️ edit ]

Table tennis is very popular and widely played in Brazil, and the country has a considerable tradition in this ❤️ sport.

The greatest player in the history of the country is Hugo Calderano, who reached number 3 in the world in ❤️ 2022 (becoming the greatest Americas player of all time), and was the first South American to reach the quarterfinals of ❤️ this sport at the Olympic Games.

Other historically important players in the country are Gustavo Tsuboi, Cláudio Kano, Hugo Hoyama and ❤️ Bruna Takahashi.

[48][49]Taekwondo [ edit ]

In taekwondo, Brazilian Natália Falavigna was a bronze medalist at the Olympic Games in 2008 and ❤️ 4th place in 2004.

Maicon Siqueira won bronze in 2016.

Diogo Silva finished 4th in 2004 and 2012, and Milena Titoneli finished ❤️ 4th in 2020.

[50]Gymnastics [ edit ]

Brazil has a large training center for Olympic athletes in artistic gymnastics, which has already ❤️ revealed athletes such as Rebeca Andrade, Arthur Zanetti, Daiane dos Santos, Jade Barbosa, Arthur Mariano, Diego Hypólito and Daniele Hypólito.

[51] ❤️ In rhythmic gymnastics, the Brazilian team won an unprecedented bronze in the general event of the Athens, Greece stage of ❤️ the Rhythmic Gymnastics World Cup, held in March 2023.[52]

Modern pentathlon [ edit ]

Yane Marques is the only person born in ❤️ South America to win an Olympic medal in modern pentathlon (until the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games), having also been the ❤️ first person in Latin America to do so.

[53]Canoeing [ edit ]

The Brazilian Isaquias Queiroz is the best canoeist in the ❤️ history of South America, being the only Olympic champion of this modality on the continent and adding a total of ❤️ four Olympic medals until the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.

Erlon Silva also won Olympic silver for Brazil in canoeing.

[54][55]Archery [ edit ❤️ ]

Marcus Vinicius D'Almeida, in the recurve bow category, is the greatest male archery athlete in the history of South America, ❤️ having been number 1 in the world in 2023, and world runner-up in 2021.

Ane Marcelle dos Santos went to the ❤️ 3nd round of the 2016 Olympic Games.

[56][57]Fencing [ edit ]

Although Brazil has little tradition in fencing, the country has produced ❤️ some renowned athletes.

Nathalie Moellhausen was world champion in 2019 and reached the quarter-finals of the 2016 Olympic Games in Women's ❤️ épée.

Guilherme Toldo reached the quarter-finals of the 2016 Summer Olympics in Men's foil.[58]Diving [ edit ]

Brazil also does not have ❤️ a long tradition in diving, but work carried out over the decades allowed the emergence of some high-level athletes.

The most ❤️ relevant so far are Ingrid de Oliveira, who finished 4th at the 2022 World Aquatics Championships, César Castro, 5th place ❤️ on the 3-meter springboard at the 2009 Worlds, and Juliana Veloso, 10th place on the platform in 2001.[59]Hockey [ edit ❤️ ]

In Brazil, roller in-line hockey is the most popular form of hockey, unlike ice hockey that is still dependent on ❤️ infrastructure.

Brazilians that practices hockey, mostly practices the roller in-line hockey.

The main world championships of Ice Hockey are transmitted through cable ❤️ TV in the country, among them the NHL played between teams of Canada and the United States, and the European ❤️ League.

Despite this, the modality finds difficulties in falling in the popular taste of the country.

Cairo Santos is the first Brazilian ❤️ born player in NFL history.

American football is played by young people in some states.

The most popular varieties are flag football ❤️ (especially in São Paulo) and beach American football (played in coastal cities such as Rio de Janeiro, Recife and João ❤️ Pessoa).

Also, the sport is already one of the most played around the country, with approximately 130 teams.

The Superliga Nacional de ❤️ Futebol Americano (National American Football Superleague) is a recently created Brazilian American football league, created and organized by the Confederação ❤️ Brasileira de Futebol Americano [pt] (Brazilian Confederation of American Football).

Rugby union [ edit ]

Lobo Bravo, a Brazilian rugby team.

Rugby has ❤️ been played in Brazil since at least 1888.

Although it has been played in Brazil for as long as football, it ❤️ has never enjoyed its popularity, it's also mostly played amateurly.

The Brazil national rugby union team has so far never qualified ❤️ for a Rugby World Cup, it did secured the South American Rugby Championship for the first time in 2018 and ❤️ in November the national team had an historical friendly with the Māori All Blacks.

A domestic club competition, the Campeonato Brasileiro ❤️ de Rugby, has been contested annually since 1964.

Rugby returned to the Olympics in Rio 2016 (in the 7-a-side tournament form) ❤️ - see Rugby sevens at the 2016 Summer Olympics.

As 2016 Olympic hosts, Brazil men's and women's teams automatically qualified.

The sport ❤️ is not widely played in schools, but is common in universities.

All 27 states were reported to have rugby clubs, but ❤️ around 50% of the active clubs are located in the São Paulo state.

[60] As of 2016, rugby was played by ❤️ about 60,000 Brazilians and has experienced sizeable growth in the country.[61]

Rugby league [ edit ]

Rugby league has been played in ❤️ Brazil in the 2010s, and has developed a small but growing domestic presence.

The Brazilian national team will compete in the ❤️ 2022 South American Rugby League Championship, their first major international tournament, which is part of the qualifying process for the ❤️ 2025 World Cup.

The Brazil women's national rugby league team was successful in qualifying for and participated in the 2021 Women's ❤️ World Cup.

Baseball [ edit ]

Paulo Orlando became the first Brazilian born player to win the World Series in 2015.

Baseball is ❤️ traditionally practiced mostly by the Japanese communities in Brazil.

[62][63] It is not very popular in the country, but with the ❤️ cable TV coverage of the games, baseball is also gaining fans among non-nisseis.

There are several regional leagues on the rise ❤️ in the country, however, the difficulty in finding baseball fields prevents regular practice of the sport that is often played ❤️ on adapted football fields.

The National team appeared in the 2013 World Baseball Classic.

Paulo Orlando and Yan Gomes are the only ❤️ Brazilians to win the World Series.

Other sports in Brazil [ edit ]

In horse racing, Silvestre de Sousa was the British ❤️ flat racing Champion Jockey in 2015.

The Brazilian-bred horse Glória de Campeão won the Dubai World Cup, then the world's richest ❤️ Thoroughbred race, in 2010 with Brazilian jockey T.J.Pereira aboard.

Curling is a growing sport in Brazil; the creation of a national ❤️ team was inspired by the audience for the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.

A temporary rink in the Eldorado Shopping Center ❤️ in São Paulo featured Norwegian curler Linn Githmark and a winter-sports complex is planned, probably in the city of Campos ❤️ do Jordão.

Frescobol is a native[64] Brazilian sport similar to tennis and cricket, played with a wooden racket and soft rubber ❤️ ball on the beach with no scoring system.

It began during the 1960s on Ipanema beach.

Biribol is another native sport created ❤️ in Birigüi, São Paulo state.

It is a kind of volleyball played in a swimming pool.

Peteca (shuttlecock) is a native sport ❤️ which originated from indigenous games.

Rodeo enjoys significant popularity in some rural regions of southern states.

The rodeo event of bull riding ❤️ has become a significant niche sport on its own since the success of Adriano Moraes on the US-based Professional Bull ❤️ Riders (PBR) circuit in the 1990s and 2000s.

PBR now runs a national touring series in Brazil, and Brazilian riders are ❤️ heavily represented on the main PBR circuit in the US.

Cricket has a burgeoning Brazilian women's national team, who won the ❤️ 2018 South American Women's Cricket Championship.

See Cricket in Brazil.

Brazil at the Olympics [ edit ]

Due to the tropical and subtropical ❤️ nature of the climate of Brazil, it has not traditionally competed in the Winter Olympics, although it made its first ❤️ appearance in the 1992 Winter Olympics, and most recently participated in the 2014 Winter Olympics.

However, Brazil has been competing in ❤️ the Summer Olympics since 1920.

Brazil is currently ranked 33rd in the overall ranking of medals in the Summer Olympics.

Rio de ❤️ Janeiro hosted the 2016 Summer Olympics, the first Olympic Games held in South America.

Sports in media [ edit ]

On television, ❤️ football is by far the most watched sport on both free and paid television, games from regional teams often guarantee ❤️ the top audience in its cities, also European football (especially UEFA Champions League) are guaranteed high viewing figures.

In motorsport, the ❤️ main national competitions are Stock Car Brasil and Fórmula Truck.

Formula One is considered the second most watched sport in terms ❤️ of TV audience, behind football.

The IndyCar Series also has a good fanbase in Brazil.

MMA in a short period of time ❤️ has become the second most broadcast sport on Brazilian TV, due mainly to the resounding success of Brazilian fighters in ❤️ the UFC.

Both men and women's volleyball enjoy very good viewing figures, especially the Brazilian national volleyball teams, Superliga and beach ❤️ volleyball matches.

Basketball is also widely broadcast, prominently the national league (NBB), the NBA and FIBA.

Basketball's level of popularity is returning ❤️ to its historical levels.

In recent years, American football has been gaining fast popularity, with NFL games guaranteeing an audience on ❤️ ESPN Brasil and Esporte Interativo.

Also, some Torneio Touchdown (Brazilian League) games are shown by BandSports.

[65] In 2016, the two main ❤️ leagues merged into the Superliga Nacional.

Curling was the latest sporting phenomenon in Brazil in terms of audience.

During the 2013 World ❤️ Women's Curling Championship, held in late March in Canada, about 3.

6 million people watched the channel SporTV, leading audiences among ❤️ sports channels on pay TV.

The audience was even greater during the men's worlds that year.

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Competitions hosted by ❤️ Brazil [ edit ]

Some of the most important sports competitions hosted by the country were:[67][68][69][70]

Competitions hosted annually:

Discontinued events:See also [ ❤️ edit ]

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