The first Brazilian medal in Tokyo was awarded to skateboarder
Kelvin Hoefler in
men's street with a score of 36.15 in the first Olympic competition in the sport's history.
Japanese skateboarder star
Yuto Horigome claimed the first Olympic gold medal with a score of 37.18 and
American Jagger Eaton scored a 35.35, winning the bronze medal. The second medal in
Skateboarding, was conquered by the 13-year-old
Rayssa Leal in the Olympics's inaugural women's skateboarding competition: the
Women's street, one day after the
men's street. The board flips, slides and grinds of Brazil's youngest-ever medalist drew as much acclaim as she won the silver medal with a score of 14.64, below the gold medalist
Japanese Momiji Nishiya with 15,26. Leal was the youngest athlete to win an Olympic medal since the
1936 Olympic Games and to date among the 10 youngest Olympic medalists ever. The third medal in
Skateboarding was achieved in the inaugural Olympic
men's park by
Pedro Barros. With a score of 86,14, he won the silver medal, below
Australian Keegan Palmer, with a score of 95.83. In the
judo competition, two bronze medals were achieved. In
the men's 66 kg competition,
Daniel Cargnin lost the semifinal to
Japanese gold medalist
Hifumi Abe and defeated
Israeli Baruch Shmailov in the bronze medal dispute. Twice world champion
Mayra Aguiar won one of the bronze medals in
the women's 78 kg category, after defeating in bronze medal dispute
South Korean Yoon Hyun-ji; she made History conquering three consecutive bronze medals in
London 2012,
Rio 2016 and
Tokyo 2020. She is the first Brazilian woman to win three Olympic medals in an individual sport. The first gold medal won by Brazil in Tokyo was in
Surfing, in the debut of the sport at the Olympic Games.
Ítalo Ferreira earned the first-ever gold after running away from
Japanese Kanoa Igarashi in an electric final. The
2019 ISA World Surfing Games Champion recovered from snapping his board early-on and posted wave high scores of 7.77 and a 7.37 for a combined 15.14, while Kanoa Igarashi counted a 3.83 and a 2.77, combining for a 6.60. In the
swimming competitions, three medals were earned, two bronze and one gold medal.
Fernando Scheffer won the bronze medal in
men's 200 m freestyle, with a time of 1m44s66, behind
Britishers silver medalist
Duncan Scott (1m44s26) and gold medalist
Tom Dean (1m44s22).
Bruno Fratus won the bronze medal in
men's 50 m freestyle, with a time of 21s57, behind silver medalist
Florent Manaudou and gold medalist
Caeleb Dressel. Though Fratus had a decorated career at the World Championships, Pan Pacific, and Pan American Games, he finally won an Olympic medal. Fratus became with 32-years-old also the oldest pool swimmer in history to win their first Olympic medal. The marathon-swimmer
Ana Marcela Cunha was the gold medalist in
women's marathon of 10 km, won with a time of 1:59:30.8, becoming the first Brazilian woman swimmer to win a gold medal in the Olympics. Former Olympic gold medalist
Sharon van Rouwendaal of the Netherlands finished second, with
Kareena Lee of Australia taking the bronze. Cunha has obtained, until 2019, 11 medals in World Swimming Championships, 5 being gold, but this was the first Olympic medal in her career. In
Artistic Gymnastic,
Rebeca Andrade won two medals. In the qualification round, Andrade had one of the best performances of her career, qualifying in third to the vault final, fourth to floor exercise final, and second to the all-around final. After leading the competition in the first two rotations of the
women's all-around final, Andrade won silver medal with a final score of 57.298 after stepping out of bounds on two of her floor passes.
American Sunisa Lee won gold with a score of 57.433. This marked the first-ever Olympic medal win for a female Brazilian artistic gymnast and the first Olympic all-around medalist who qualified as an individual. In the final of
Women's vault, Rebeca Andrade set another record for her country, surpassing her third-place vault final qualification to win the event with an average score of 15.083. This made her the first Olympic champion in Brazilian women's artistic gymnastics history and also the first Brazil woman to win more than one medal in a single edition of the Olympic Games. Andrade also served as a flag bearer for Brazil at the Games' closing ceremony. In the
women's doubles tennis tournament,
Laura Pigossi and
Luisa Stefani earned the bronze medal. They defeated
Russians Veronika Kudermetova and defending gold medallist
Elena Vesnina in the bronze medal match by 2 sets to 1, saving four straight match points before overcoming in the final set. The medal was one of the most unexpected: the Brazilians got an Olympic spot just one week before the 2020 Games opening, with Luísa Stefani ranked No. 23 in the doubles ranking and Pigossi only at No. 190. Although the Brazilian pair played together for the first time, during the campaign they managed to save eight match-points. In addition to the four in the bronze medal match, they saved another four in the match against
Czech duo
Karolina Pliskova and
Marketa Vondrousova in the round of 16. Pigossi and Stefani became the first Brazilians to obtain an Olympic medal in tennis in history. Two bronze medals were conquered in
athletics. After an Olympic cycle much lower than expected, without medals in World Championships and even in Pan American Games between 2016 and 2020,
Olympic record holder and gold medalist in
Rio/2016,
Thiago Braz participates in
men's pole vault in Tokyo/2020 again without being the favorite; in the final he jumped 5.87 m and secured bronze medal, behind the world record holder Swede
Armand Duplantis who got gold medal with 6.02 m and the American
Chris Nilsen, with 5.97 m got the silver medal. Braz finished with his second consecutive Olympic medal, a very rare feat in Brazilian athletics.
Alison dos Santos got the bronze medal in
men's 400 metres hurdles, in what has been described as one of the greatest races in Olympic history;
Karsten Warholm of
Norway won, setting a new
world record of 45.94 seconds. He beat his own previous record, set a month before, by 0.76 seconds; silver medalist
Rai Benjamin of the United States beat the previous record by 0.53 seconds. The event was the strongest in 400m hurdles history, with the three Olympic medalists getting the three best times in the history of the event, all beating
Kevin Young's old world record (which had lasted almost 30 years and had only fallen a month before the Olympics). Alison became the 3rd best in the history of the race, with a time of 46.72 seconds.
Martine Grael and
Kahena Kunze sailed to gold after winning the
women's 49erFX competition. They came in third in the medal race scoring 6 points which bring them a total of 76 points to win the top podium.
Germany's
Tina Lutz and
Susann Beucke clinched silver with a total score of 83 and double world champions
Annemiek Bekkering and
Annette Duetz from the
Netherlands picked up bronze after amassing 88 points. This was the Brazilian duo's second gold medal in the same event after winning in
Rio/2016. Martine Grael continued the tradition of her family in sailing: her father
Torben Grael is five-time Olympic medalist (twice gold) and her uncle
Lars Grael is a twice bronze medalist. In the
Canoeing, The
reigning World Champion Isaquias Queiroz and silver medallist in
Rio/2016, finished with a time of four minutes, 04.408 seconds, ahead of China's
Liu Hao and Moldova's
Serghei Tarnovschi for his maiden Olympic title. He become the first Brazilian to win an Olympic gold medal in
Canoeing and it was also the fourth Olympic medal in his career. Isaquias had been through adversity in his younger years. As a toddler he poured boiling water on himself and spent a month in hospital recovering, at the age of 5 he was kidnapped and offered up for adoption before being rescued by his mother, and 5 years later he fell out of a tree while trying to catch a snake and lost a kidney. In the
boxing competitions, Brazilians earned three Olympic medals.
Abner Teixeira lost the semifinal to Cuban
Julio César La Cruz in
men's heavyweight and was awarded a bronze medal. Reigning
world champion Beatriz Ferreira was the silver medalist in
women's lightweight in Boxing. She lost the final to
Kellie Harrington from
Ireland in a unanimous decision. This is the best result achieved by a Brazilian woman in
Boxing at Olympic Games.
Hebert Conceição won the gold medal in the
men's middleweight event at the
2020 Summer Olympics in one of the most shocking fights in Tokyo, by
knocking out Ukrainian Oleksandr Khyzhniak in the third round . Khyzhniak had spent the fight's first minutes smacking Conceição around the ring with his vicious combination of power and accuracy and won the first two rounds unanimously. In the third and final round, the Brazilian caught Khyzhniak with a counter left hook during an exchange, and Khyzhniak went to the canvas hard. The referee declared
Hebert Conceição winner by knock out . He joins lightweight
Robson Conceição as the only boxing gold medalists in Brazil's Olympic history. The seventh gold medal earned by Brazil in Tokyo was awarded in
men's football tournament. The incumbent gold medalists in
Rio/2016 finished at the top of their group with 7 points, following a 4–2 win over
Germany, a 0–0 draw to
Ivory Coast and a 3–1 win over
Saudi Arabia. They beat
Egypt 1–0 in the quarter-finals, and
Mexico in the semi-finals with a 4–1 victory in the penalty shootouts following a 0–0 draw in extra time. In the
final against
Spain,
Matheus Cunha opened the score for Brazil in the first half and a
Mikel Oyarzabal goal in the second half forced the match into extra time;
Malcom scored the winning goal in the 108th minute, which lead Brazil to their second Olympic gold medal and seventh medal in men's football at Olympic Games. Brazil became the fifth country to win back-to-back Olympic golds, after
Great Britain (1908, 1912),
Uruguay(1924, 1928),
Hungary (1964, 1968) and
Argentina (2004, 2008). Among the players,
Daniel Alves was Brazil's 38-year-old captain, who had led the team as an over-age player and became the most decorated football player with his personal trophy haul to 43 titles. In the
Volleyball competitions, the last Brazilian medal of
2020 Summer Olympics was a silver one achieved by
Brazil women's national volleyball team. The team went undefeated in the pool round and in the bracket leading up to the final after winning 7 matches, but lost easily by 3 sets to 0 (25–21, 25–20, 25–14) to
United States women's national volleyball team, who won its first gold medal in women's volleyball. Nonetheless, the silver medal in women's volleyball, Brazil had the poorest campaign in the sport since the
1992 Summer Olympics, with a fourth place in
men's tournament and missing a medal in
beach volleyball for the first time since the inaugural tournament in
1996 Summer Olympics. ==Medalists==