Brazil at the World Championships in Athletics

Brazil at the World Championships in Athletics
IAAF code	BRA
National federation	Brazilian Athletics Confederation
Website	www.cbat.org.br
World Championships in Athletics appearances (overview)

Brazil has participated in all the World Championships in Athletics since the beginning in 1983. Brazil is 52th on the all time medal table. Brazil's first World Championships medal was won by Joaquim Cruz in the Men's 800 metres in 1983. He won bronze. Fabiana Murer won the first Brazil's gold medal and first woman's medal in the pole vault in 2011. Claudinei Quirino has the most medals with three (one silver and two bronzes).

Medalists

Medal	Name	Year	Event
Bronze	Joaquim Cruz	1983 Helsinki	Men's 800 metres
Bronze	Zequinha Barbosa	1987 Rome	Men's 800 metres
Silver	Zequinha Barbosa	1991 Tokyo	Men's 800 metres
Bronze	Luíz Antônio dos Santos	1995 Gothenburg	Men's marathon
Bronze	Claudinei Quirino	1997 Athens	Men's 200 metres
Silver	Claudinei Quirino	1999 Seville	Men's 200 metres
Silver	Sanderlei Parrela	1999 Seville	Men's 400 metres
Bronze	André Domingos, Claudinei Quirino, Édson Luciano Ribeiro, Raphael de Oliveira	1999 Seville	Men's 4 × 100 metres relay
Silver	André Domingos, Cláudio Roberto Souza, Édson Luciano Ribeiro, Vicente Lenílson	2003 Saint-Denis	Men's 4 × 100 metres relay
Silver	Jadel Gregório	2007 Osaka	Men's triple jump
Gold	Fabiana Murer	2011 Daegu	Women's pole vault
Silver	Fabiana Murer	2015 Beijing	Women's pole vault

Source:

Medal tables

By championships

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total	Rank
1983 Helsinki	0	0	1	1	=21
1987 Rome	0	0	1	1	=25
1991 Tokyo	0	1	0	1	=21
1993 Stuttgart	0	0	0	0	–
1995 Gothenburg	0	0	1	1	=38
1997 Athens	0	0	0	1	=36
1999 Seville	0	2	1	3	24
2001 Edmonton	0	0	0	0	–
2003 Saint-Denis	1	0	0	1	=31
2005 Helsinki	0	0	0	0	–
2007 Osaka	0	1	0	1	=28
2009 Berlin	0	0	0	0	–
2011 Daegu	1	0	0	1	=11
2013 Moscow	0	0	0	0	–
2015 Beijing	0	1	0	1	=25
2017 London					TBD
Total	1	6	5	12	52

By event

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
Jumping	1	2	0	3
Sprinting	0	2	1	3
Hurdling	0	0	0	0
Middle-distance	0	1	2	3
Long-distance	0	0	1	1
Throwing	0	0	0	0
Relay	0	1	1	2

By gender

Gender	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
Women	1	1	0	2
Men	0	5	5	10

See also

• Brazil at the Olympics
• Brazil at the Pan American Games
• Brazil at the World Indoor Championships in Athletics