Brazil first participated at the Olympic Games in 1920, after missing the previous five Summer editions.^[1] The country has sent athletes to compete in every Summer Olympic Games since then, except for the 1928 Games. As of 2020, Brazilian athletes have won a total of 150 medals in 18 different Summer sports.

Brazil has also participated in the Winter Olympic Games since 1992. Due to Brazil being mostly a tropical nation, to this date no Brazilian athlete has won an Olympic medal in the winter sports and the country's best result at the Winter Olympics was a ninth place by snowboarder Isabel Clark Ribeiro at the 2006 Winter Olympics.

Volleyball (indoors and beach volley), sailing and judo are Brazil's top medal-producing sports in the Summer editions. The country is also the most decorated in football, with the men's team having seven medals (2 gold, 3 silver and 2 bronze) and the women's team adding two silver medals for a total of nine.

Rio de Janeiro in Brazil was the host city to the 2016 Summer Olympics. This marked the first time that any country in South America has hosted the games.^[2] This also marks the first time that a lusophone country hosted any edition of the Olympic Games. Rio was only the second city in Latin America to host the Summer Olympics, after Mexico City in 1968, and Brazil was only the second country of the southern hemisphere to host the Olympics, after Australia in 1956 and 2000.

As the hosts of the 2016 Summer Olympics, Brazil had the second most successful participation at the Summer Olympics to date, earning seven gold medals and nineteen medals overall. The nation's most successful overall performance at the Olympics occurred at the 2020 Summer Olympics. Tied with 2016 games in number of gold medals (7) and silver medals (6) but with 2 more bronze medals (8), Brazil became the second nation to surpass its medal total at the Olympics immediately following one that it hosted (the other one was Great Britain in the 2016 Olympics). The country broke the record for medals in one edition (21) and was also in the highest position on medal table on games history (12th place).

One athlete from Brazil has been awarded the Pierre de Coubertin medal: Vanderlei de Lima, a long-distance runner who was attacked by a spectator during the men's marathon at the 2004 edition in Athens, Greece, when he was leading the race. Lima lost two places, winning the bronze medal. In spite of the situation, he still celebrated the third-place, showing good sportsmanship.^[3]

The National Olympic Committee for Brazil is the Brazilian Olympic Committee. The entity was created in 1914 and recognized in 1935.

Brazil has hosted the Games on one occasion.

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Medals by Summer Games   Host country Games Athletes  Gold  Silver  Bronze Total Rank 1920 Antwerp 21 1 1 1 3 15 1924 Paris 12 0 0 0 0 – 1928 Amsterdam did not participate 1932 Los Angeles 67 0 0 0 0 – 1936 Berlin 73 0 0 0 0 – 1948 London 70 0 0 1 1 34 1952 Helsinki 108 1 0 2 3 24 1956 Melbourne 44 1 0 0 1 24 1960 Rome 72 0 0 2 2 39 1964 Tokyo 61 0 0 1 1 35 1968 Mexico City 76 0 1 2 3 35 1972 Munich 81 0 0 2 2 41 1976 Montreal 81 0 0 2 2 36 1980 Moscow 109 2 0 2 4 17 1984 Los Angeles 151 1 5 2 8 19 1988 Seoul 171 1 2 3 6 24 1992 Barcelona 195 2 1 0 3 25 1996 Atlanta 225 3 3 9 15 25 2000 Sydney 205 0 6 6 12 53 2004 Athens 247 5 2 3 10 16 2008 Beijing 277 3 4 10 17 23 2012 London 259 3 5 9 17 22 2016 Rio de Janeiro 465 7 6 6 19 13 2020 Tokyo 301 7 6 8 21 12 2024 Paris future event 2028 Los Angeles 2032 Brisbane Total 3.371 37 42 71 150 32

Medals by Winter Games Games Athletes  Gold  Silver  Bronze Total Rank 1992 Albertville 7 0 0 0 0 – 1994 Lillehammer 1 0 0 0 0 – 1998 Nagano 1 0 0 0 0 – 2002 Salt Lake City 10 0 0 0 0 – 2006 Turin 9 0 0 0 0 – 2010 Vancouver 5 0 0 0 0 – 2014 Sochi 13 0 0 0 0 – 2018 Pyeongchang 9 0 0 0 0 – 2022 Beijing 10 0 0 0 0 – 2026 Milan–Cortina future event Total 0 0 0 0 –

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Medals by Summer Sport

  Leading in that sport

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Sports	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total	Rank
Sailing	8	3	8	19	11
Volleyball	5	4	2	11	2
Athletics	5	3	11	19	34
Judo	4	3	17	24	10
Beach volleyball	3	7	3	13	2
Football	2	5	2	9	4
Swimming	2	4	11	17	24
Artistic gymnastics	2	3	1	6	24
Boxing	2	2	4	8	28
Shooting	1	2	1	4	36
Canoeing	1	2	1	4	31
Equestrian	1	0	2	3	20
Surfing	1	0	0	1	1
Skateboarding	0	3	0	3	3
Basketball	0	1	4	5	10
Taekwondo	0	0	2	2	35
Modern pentathlon	0	0	1	1	23
Tennis	0	0	1	1	31
Total (18)	37	42	71	150	32

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Medals by Gender

More information Gender, Gold ...

Gender	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
Men	26	31	53	110
Women	10	11	16	37
Mixed	1	0	2	3
Total	37	42	71	150

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Best Results in 1996-2020. Since 1996 can reach to over 10 medals.

1920-1992: 49 medals

1996-2020: 101 medals