Brazil at the 2007 Pan American Games

The 15th Pan-American Games were held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, between 13 July 2007 and 29 July 2007. The Brazilian delegation consisted of 659 athletes (373 men and 286 women) and 267 directors, making a total of 926 people in 41 sports. Competing in their own country, the Brazilian athletes managed to far surpass their own record number of Gold, Silver and Bronze medals obtained in a single edition of the Pan-American Games.

Goals
The Rio de Janeiro Mayor and Brazilian Olympic Group wanted to show that Brazil is capable to receive the 2014 World Cup, for which is the only candidate so far, and that the city is eligible to host the 2016 Summer Olympics.

Another mission of Brazil was to achieve the 2nd position among the top History Pan-American Winners.

The COB also used the competition to prepare itself for the 2008 Summer Olympics.

Medalists
The following competitors from Brazil won medals at the games. In the by discipline sections below, medalists' names are bolded.

Diving

 * Female
 * Evelyn Winkler
 * Juliana Veloso
 * Milena Canto Sae
 * Tammy Galera Takagi


 * Male
 * Cassius Duran
 * César Castro
 * Hugo Parisi
 * Ubirajara Barbosa

Open water swimming
4 athletes (2 female and 2 male)


 * Female
 * Poliana Okimoto
 * Ana Marcela Cunha


 * Male
 * Allan do Carmo
 * Marcelo Romanello

Swimming
52 athletes (25 female and 26 male)


 * Female
 * Daiene Dias
 * Fabíola Molina
 * Fernanda Alvarenga
 * Flávia Delaroli
 * Gabriella Silva
 * Joanna Maranhão
 * Larissa Cieslak
 * Lilian Cerroni
 * Manuella Lyrio
 * Mariana Katsuno
 * Michelle Lenhardt
 * Monique Ferreira
 * Nayara Ribeiro
 * Paula Baracho
 * Poliana Okimoto
 * Tatiana Barbosa
 * Tatiane Sakemi
 * Veruska Clednev


 * Male
 * Armando Negreiros
 * César Cielo
 * Diogo Yabe
 * Eduardo Deboni
 * Felipe May Araújo
 * Felipe Lima
 * Fernando Silva
 * Gabriel Mangabeira
 * Henrique Barbosa
 * Kaio de Almeida
 * Leonardo Guedes
 * Lucas Salatta
 * Luiz Arapiraca
 * Nicolas Oliveira
 * Nicholas Santos
 * Rodrigo Castro
 * Thiago Pereira

Synchronised swimming
9 female athletes
 * Beatriz Feres
 * Branca Feres
 * Caroline Hildebrant
 * Giovana Stephan
 * Glaucia Souza
 * Lara Teixeira
 * Michelle Frota
 * Nayara Figueira
 * Pamela Nogueira

Water polo
26 athletes (13 female, 13 male)


 * Female
 * Ana Vasconcelos
 * Andréa Henriques
 * Amanda Oliveira
 * Camila Pedrosa
 * Ciça Canetti
 * Fernanda Lissoni
 * Flávia Fernandes
 * Luíza Carvalho
 * Maria Barbara Amaro
 * Marina Canetti
 * Manuela Canetti
 * Melina Teno
 * Tess Oliveira


 * Male
 * André Cordeiro
 * André Raposo
 * Bruno Nolasco
 * Daniel Mameri
 * Erik Seegerer
 * Felipe Franco
 * Gabriel Reis
 * Leandro Ruiz Machado
 * Lucas Vita
 * Luís Santos
 * Roberto Seabra
 * Rodrigo dos Santos
 * Vicente Henriques

Archery
6 athletes (3 female and 3 male)


 * Women
 * Sarah Nikitin
 * Fátima Rocha
 * Petra Ruocco


 * Men
 * Marcos Bortoloto
 * Leonardo Carvalho
 * Fabio Emilio

Athletics
83 athletes (39 female and 44 male)



Female
 * Márcia Narloch (Running)
 * Sirlene Pinho (Running)

Male
 * Franck de Almeida (Running)
 * Vanderlei Cordeiro de Lima (Running)
 * Mário José dos Santos Júnior (Athletic 50 km)
 * Cláudio Richardson dos Santos (Athletic 50 km)

Badminton
8 athletes (4 female and 4 male)


 * Female
 * Fabiana Silva (singles)
 * Mariana Arimori (singles)
 * Paula Beatriz Pereira (doubles)
 * Thayse Cruz (doubles)


 * Male
 * Guilherme Pardo (singles and doubles)
 * Guilherme Kumasaka (doubles)
 * Lucas Araújo (singles and doubles)
 * Paulo Scala (simples and doubles)

Baseball
20 male athletes


 * Pitchers
 * Marcelo Kaneo Arai (Dourados / Dourados – MS)
 * Rodrigo Watanabe Miyamoto (Yamaha – JAP)
 * Fernando Oda (Coopercotia / São Paulo – SP)
 * Gustavo Yukio Ogassawara (Nittadai University – JAP)
 * Kléber Ojima (Mogi das Cruzes / Mogi das Cruzes – SP)
 * Gilmar Henrique Pereira (Philadelphia Phillies – USA)
 * Marcio Sakane (Dragons / Itapecerica da Serra – SP)
 * Claudio Kenji Yamada (Atibaia / Atibaia – SP)


 * Catchers
 * Rafael Motooka de Oliveira (Guarulhos / Guarulhos – SP)
 * Ricardo Hideki Shimanoe (São Paulo / São Paulo – SP)


 * Infielders
 * Marcelo Okuyama (São Paulo / São Paulo – SP)
 * Ronaldo Hidemi Ono (Nippon Blue Jays / Arujá – SP)
 * Reinaldo Tsuguio Sato (Yamaha – JAP)
 * Renan Issamu Sato (Mitsubishi – JAP)
 * Evaldo Yamaoka (Dragons / Itapecerica da Serra – SP)


 * Outfielders
 * Tiago Campos de Magalhães (Yamaha – JAP)
 * Celso Takashi Nakano (São Paulo / São Paulo – SP)
 * Paulo Roberto Orlando (Chicago White Sox – USA)
 * Anderson Gomes dos Santos (Chicago White Sox – USA)
 * Julio Shinji Takahashi (Nippon Blue Jays / Arujá – SP)

Men's team competition

 * Team Roster
 * Marcelo Machado
 * Welington dos Santos
 * Murilo da Rosa
 * Marcus Reis
 * Marcelo Huertas
 * Valter Silva
 * Alex García
 * Guilherme Teichmann
 * Caio Torres
 * João Paulo Batista
 * Marcus Vinicius
 * Paulo Prestes
 * Head coach: Aluisio Ferrerira

Women's team competition

 * Team Roster
 * Janeth Arcain
 * Graziane Coelho
 * Tatiana Conceição
 * Jucimara Dantas ("Mamá")
 * Patricia Ferreira ("Chuca")
 * Micaela Jacinto
 * Palmira Marçal
 * Isis Nascimento
 * Adriana Moisés Pinto
 * Karen Rocha
 * Kelly Santos
 * Soeli Zakrzeski ("Êga")

Bowling
4 athletes (2 female and 2 male)

Female
 * Jacqueline Costa
 * Roseli Santos

Male
 * Fabio Rezende
 * Rodrigo Hermes

Boxing
11 male athletes


 * To 48 kg: Paulo Carvalho
 * To 51 kg: Robenilson Vieira
 * To 54 kg: James Dean Pereira
 * to 57 kg: Davi Souza
 * To 60 kg: Éverton Lopes
 * To 64 kg: Myke Carvalho
 * To 69 kg: Pedro Lima
 * To 75 kg: Glaucelio Abreu
 * To 81 kg: Washington Silva
 * To 91 kg: Rafael Lima
 * Over 91 kg: Rogério Nogueira

Canoeing
14 athletes (5 female and 9 male) Female
 * Bruna Gama (K1 e K4)
 * Naiane Pereira (K2 e K4)
 * Ariela Pinto (K2 e K4)
 * Daniela Alvarez (K4)
 * Mayara Cardoso (reserve)

Male
 * Sebástian Cuattrin (K4 1000m e K2 1000m)
 * Guto Campos (K4 1000m e K2 500m)
 * Roberto Mahler (K4 1000m e K2 500m)
 * Edson Isaías da Silva (K4 1000m e K1 500m)
 * Jonathan Maia (K2 1000m)
 * Givago Ribeiro (K2 1000m)
 * Nivalter Santos de Jesus (C1 1000m e C1 500m)
 * Vladimir Moreno (C2 1000m e C2 500m)
 * Vilson Conceição (C2 1000m e C2 500m)

Cycling
23 athletes (6 female and 17 male)


 * Male
 * Marcos Novello (road and track)
 * Marcos Vinícius Correia de Alcântra (track)
 * Davi Romeo (track)
 * Fernando Firmino (track)
 * Magno Nazaret (track)
 * Roberson Figueiredo (track)
 * Hernandes Cuadri (track)
 * Rodrigo Brito (track)

BMX

 * Female
 * Ana Flavia Sgobin
 * Luciana Hirama


 * Male
 * Hudson Peixoto
 * Mauro Aquino

Mountain bike

 * Female
 * Jaqueline Mourão


 * Male
 * Edivando Cruz
 * Ricardo Pscheidt

Road

 * Female
 * Clemilda Fernandes
 * Uênia Fernandes
 * Janildes Fernandes


 * Male
 * Luciano Pagliarini
 * Rafael Andriato
 * Renato Seabra
 * Otavio Bulgarelli
 * Pedro Nicacio
 * Marcos Novello (also competed in track cycling)

Track

 * Male
 * Marcos Novello (also competed in road cycling)
 * Marcos Vinícius Correia de Alcântra
 * Davi Romeo
 * Fernando Firmino
 * Magno Nazaret
 * Roberson Figueiredo
 * Hernandes Cuadri
 * Rodrigo Brito

Dressage
Rider / Horse
 * Rogerio Clementino / Nilo Vo
 * Renata Costa / Monty
 * Luiza Almeida / Samba

Eventing
Rider / Horse
 * Fabricio Salgado / Butterfly
 * Carlos Paro / Political Mandate
 * Renan Guerreiro / Rodizio AA
 * Andre Paro / Land Heir
 * Saulo Tristao / Totsie
 * Serguei Fofanoff / Ekus TW

Show jumping
Rider / Horse
 * Bernardo Alves / Chupa Chup 2
 * Pedro Veniss / Un Blancs De Blanc
 * Cesar Almeida / Singular Joter II
 * Rodrigo Pessoa / Rufus
 * Pia Aragão
 * Renata Rabello
 * Jorge Rocha (dressage)

Show Jumping
5 athletes
 * Bernardo Alves
 * Rodrigo Pessoa
 * César Almeida

Fencing
16 athletes (8 female and 8 male)

Female
 * Camila Rodrigues
 * Clarisse Menezes

Male
 * Athos Schwantes
 * Heitor Shimbo
 * Ivan Schwantes
 * João Souza
 * Marcos Cardoso
 * Rhaoni Ruckheim
 * Renzo Agresta

Field hockey
32 athletes (16 female and 16 mas)

Football
36 athletes (18 female and 18 male)

Male
 * Marcelo – Flamengo
 * Renan – Atlético Mineiro
 * Átila – Corinthians
 * Michel – Figueirense
 * Foster – Internacional
 * Lucas – Flamengo
 * Rafael – Fluminense
 * Fabio – Fluminense
 * Bruno – Grêmio
 * Fellipe – Botafogo
 * Bernardo – Cruzeiro
 * Tales – Internacional
 * Lulinha – Corinthians
 * Tiago – Grêmio
 * Carlos – Vasco
 * Júnior – Botafogo
 * Maicon – Fluminense
 * Alex – Vasco

Futsal
12 athletes

Trampoline
3 athletes (2 female and 1 male)

Female
 * Giovanna Venetiglio Matheus

Handball
30 athletes (15 female and 15 male)

Judo
14 athletes (7 female and 7 male)

Female
 * Ligeiros (Up to 48 kg): Daniela Polzin
 * Meio-leves (to 52 kg): Érika Miranda
 * Leves (to 57 kg): Danielle Zangrando
 * Meio-médios (to 63 kg): Daniele Yuri
 * Médios (to 70 kg): Mayra Aguiar
 * Meio-pesados (to 78 kg): Edinanci Silva
 * Pesados (More than 78 kg): Priscila Marques

Male
 * Ligeiros (to 60 kg): Alexandre Lee
 * Meio-leves (to 66 kg): João Derly
 * Leves (to 73 kg): Leandro Guilheiro
 * Meio-médios (to 81 kg): Flávio Canto
 * Médios (to 90 kg): Tiago Camilo
 * Meio-pesados (to 100 kg): Luciano Corrêa
 * Pesados (more than 100 kg): João Gabriel Schilliter

Karate
9 athletes (3 female and 6 male) Female
 * Dafani Figueiredo (To 60 kg)
 * Lucélia Peres de Carvalho (More de 60 kg)
 * Valéria Kumizaki (To 53 kg)

Male
 * Caio Duprat (até 75 kg)
 * Carlos Lourenço (até 65 kg)
 * Douglas Brose (até 60 kg)
 * Juarez Santos (acima 80 kg)
 * Nelson Sardenberg (até 80 kg)
 * Vinicius Souza (até 70 kg)

Modern pentathlon
Four athletes (two female and two male)
 * Wagner Romão
 * Daniel Santos
 * Yane Marques
 * Larissa Lellys

Rowing
33 athletes (11 female and 22 male)
 * Alexandre Fernandes Ribas (TBD)
 * Alexandre Monteiro Dias Fernandes Fernandez (oito com)
 * Alexis Árias Mestre (TBD)
 * Allan Scaravaglioni Bittencourt (dois sem e oito com)
 * Amanda da Costa Duarte (dois sem)
 * Anderson Nocetti (dois sem e oito com)
 * Camila de Carvalho e Carvalho (skiff duplo peso leve)
 * Caroline Farré Beloni (dois sem)
 * Célio Dias Amorim (TBD)
 * Deborah Amorim (skiff duplo peso leve)
 * Fabiana Beltrame (skiff quádruplo)
 * Gibran Vieira da Cunha (quatro sem e oito com)
 * Gustavo Villela dos Santos (TBD)
 * Henrique Vieira Motta (TBD)
 * Jairo Natanael Fröhlich Klug (TBD)
 * João Hildebrando Borges Jr. (TBD)
 * João Roberto Lopes Pallassão (TBD)
 * João Soares Jr. (TBD)
 * José Carlos Gonçalves Sobral Jr. (skiff duplo peso leve)
 * José Roberto do Nascimento Jr. (TBD)
 * José Rodrigo Rangel (TBD)
 * Kissya Cataldo da Costa (skiff quádruplo)
 * Leandro Francisco Tozzo (quatro sem e oito com)
 * Leandro Loureiro Franco Ferreira (quatro sem peso leve)
 * Luciana Granato (skiff duplo peso leve)
 * Marcelus Marcili dos Santos Silva (TBD)
 * Marco Moreira Martins (TBD)
 * Mônica Anversa Fuchs (skiff quádruplo)
 * Nilton Silva Alonço (oito com)
 * Renan Koplewski de Castro (TBD)
 * Renata Görgen (skiff quádruplo)
 * Ronaldo da Gama Vargas (TBD)
 * Thiago Almeida (TBD)
 * Thiago Gomes (double skiff peso leve)

Sailing
16 athletes (2 female and 14 male) Female
 * Adriana Kostiw
 * Patrícia Castro

Male
 * Alexandre Paradeda
 * Alexandre Saldanha
 * Bernardo Arndt
 * Bernardo Low-Beer
 * Bruno Oliveira
 * Cláudio Biekarck
 * Daniel Santiago
 * Gunnar Ficker
 * João Carlos Jordão
 * Marcelo Silva
 * Maurício Santa Cruz
 * Pedro Tinoco
 * Ricardo Winicki
 * Robert Scheidt

Shooting
29 athletes (11 female and 18 male)
 * Aliseu Farias (air carbine and carbine 3x40)
 * Ana Luiza Mello (sport pistol)
 * Cecília Frej (air pistol)
 * Cristina Badaró (carabina de ar)
 * Daniela Carraro (skeet)
 * Emerson Duarte (tiro rápido)
 * Fábio Coelho (air carbine and carbine 3x40)
 * Fernando Cardoso Jr. (tiro rápido)
 * Filipe Fuzaro (fossa doublé)
 * Janice Teixeira (fossa olimpic)
 * Júlio Almeida (air pistol)
 * Luiz Bork (carbine deitado)
 * Luiz Carlos Graça (fossa doublé)
 * Rachel da Silveira (sport pistol)
 * Renata Castro (air pistol)
 * Renato Araújo Portela (skeet)
 * Roberto Schmits (fossa olimpic)
 * Rodrigo Bastos (fossa olimpic)
 * Samuel Leandro Lopes (carbine deitado)
 * Simone Cezar da Rocha (air carbine and carbine 3x20)
 * Stenio Yamamoto (pistol livre and air pistol)
 * Vladimir da Silveira (pistol livre)
 * Wilson Zocolote (skeet)

Softball

 * Cinthia Kudo
 * Elayne Simon
 * Nilze Higa
 * Mirian Yuki Someya

Receptor
 * Márcia Mizushima
 * Vivian Morimoto

'Defense
 * Tathiane Misawa
 * Simone Miyahira
 * Kátia Ayumi Abe
 * Martha Murazawa
 * Camila Ariki
 * Juliana Shibata
 * Simone Suetsugu
 * Mariana Sayuri Abe
 * Patrícia Sugino
 * Maria Eliza Tanaka
 * Cynthia Takahashi

Squash
6 athletes (3 female and 3 male)


 * Luciano Barbosa
 * Rafael Alarçón
 * Ronivaldo Conceição
 * Karen Redfern
 * Mariana Pontalti
 * Thaisa Serafini

Table tennis
8 athletes (4 female and 4 male)

Female
 * Lígia Silva
 * Mariany Nonaka
 * Karin Sako
 * Carina Murashige (reserve)

Male
 * Hugo Hoyama
 * Thiago Monteiro
 * Gustavo Tsuboi
 * Cazuo Matsumoto (reserve)

Taekwondo
8 athletes (4 female and 4 male)


 * Natália Falavigna (Heavyweight – +67 kg)
 * Valdirene Gonçalves (Flyweight – 49 kg)
 * Debora Nunes Lightweight – 57 kg)
 * Érica Ferreira Middleweight – 67 kg)
 * Diogo Silva (Lightweight – 68 kg)
 * Márcio Wenceslau (Flyweight – 58 kg)
 * Carlos Isidoro (Middleweight – 80 kg)
 * Leonardo Gomes (Heavyweight – +80 kg)

Tennis
8 athletes (4 female and 4 male)
 * Jenifer Widjaja
 * Teliana Pereira

Men's competition

 * Juraci Moreira
 * 1:52:54.79 – Bronze Medal
 * Virgílio de Castilho
 * 1:55:17.24 – 13th place
 * Antônio Marcos da Silva
 * 2:06:50.94 – 29th place

Women's competition

 * Mariana Ohata
 * 2:00:51.28 – 5th place
 * Carla Moreno
 * 2:02:03.29 – 9th place
 * Sandra Soldan
 * 2:06:35.99 – 19th place

Volleyball
24 athletes (12 female and 12 male)

Beach volleyball
4 athletes (2 female and 2 male)


 * Female
 * Larissa
 * Juliana


 * Male
 * Ricardo
 * Emanuel

Water skiing

 * Juliana Negrão
 * Felipe Neves
 * Fernando Neves

Wakeboard Masculino
 * Marcelo Giardi
 * Mário Manzolli

Wrestling
11 athletes (4 female and 7 male)
 * Adrian Jaoude (−84 kg, estilo livre)
 * Antoine Jaoude (−96 kg, estilo livre)
 * Caroline De Lazzer (−63 kg, estilo livre)
 * Diego Rodrigues (−120 kg, estilo livre)
 * Fábio Cunha (−55 kg, estilo grego-romano)
 * Felipe Macedo (−74 kg, estilo grego-romano)
 * Iuri Cunha (−60 kg, estilo livre)
 * Joice Silva (−55 kg, estilo livre)
 * Luis Fernandes (−96 kg, estilo grego-romano)
 * Marcelo Gomes "Zulu" (−84 kg, estilo grego-romano)
 * Raoni Barcelos (−66 kg, estilo livre)
 * Renato Migliaccio (−66 kg estilo greco-romano)
 * Renato Roma (−70 kg, estilo livre)
 * Rodrigo Artilheiro (−120 kg, estilo grego-romano)
 * Rosangela Conceição (−72 kg, estilo livre)
 * Suzana Almeida (−48 kg, estilo livre)
 * Vinicius Pedrosa (−55 kg, estilo livre)
 * Waldeci Silva (−60 kg, estilo livre)