| Brazil at the 2012 Summer Olympics | |
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| IOC code | BRA |
| NOC | Brazilian Olympic Committee |
| Website | www |
| in London | |
| Competitors | 259[2] in 24 sports |
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| Medals Ranked 22nd |
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| Summer Olympics appearances (overview) | |
Brazil competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, from 27 July to 12 August 2012. This was the nation's twenty-first appearance at the Summer Olympics, having missed the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam. The Brazilian Olympic Committee (Comitê Olímpico Brasileiro, COB) sent a total of 258 athletes to the Games, 136 men and 122 women, to compete in 24 sports. Brazil left London with a total of 17 Olympic medals (3 gold, 5 silver, and 9 bronze), winning their third largest number of medals at a single games.
Brazilian athletes won its first ever medals in two sports: modern pentathlon, with the bronze medal won by Yane Marques in women's event, and in gymnastics, with the gold medal achieved by Arthur Zanetti in men's rings.
- ^ Rodrigo Pessoa será o porta-bandeira do Brasil em Londres-2012 (in Portuguese), COB, 6 July 2012, retrieved 11 July 2012
- ^ Updated list of Team Brazil for the 2012 London Olympics (in Portuguese), COB, archived from the original on 11 July 2012, retrieved 11 July 2012