Olympics: For the first time, Brazil must have a female majority – 04/16/2024 – Sport

Almost a hundred years after swimmer Maria Lenk (1915-2007) became the first Brazilian to compete in the Olympic Games, being the only woman in the delegation of 66 athletes from the country in Los Angeles-1932, Brazil should have in Paris, for For the first time, a delegation with a female majority.

One hundred days before the start of the Olympics on Parisian soil, the COB (Brazilian Olympic Committee) informs that the country already has 187 places won, in 32 modalities, 110 of which are female and 61 male, in addition to another 15 without a defined gender (equestrian and swimming relays).

Until the start of the mega-event, other athletes may still win the right to compete in this edition of the Games, but it is unlikely that the number of male participants will exceed that of women.

They are also the main favorites to win medals for the country, with emphasis on names such as Rebeca Andrade (artistic gymnastics), Mayra Aguiar (judo), Rayssa Leal (skateboard), Ana Patrícia e Duda (beach volleyball) and Beatriz Ferreira (boxing), women who can make their success an inspiration for other girls.

“The more heroines we have, the more girls will believe that it is possible to achieve success. In sport, in the profession and in life. The more we talk about women in sport, the more we will talk about menstruation, pregnancy, breastfeeding, abuse and harassment. It’s a positive cycle that will impact the lives of men and women”, he tells Sheet Mariana Mello, sports planning and performance manager at COB.

The next step, according to Mariana, is to train more female coaches. “I believe this is the biggest challenge for the next Olympic cycle,” she says.

For USP (University of São Paulo) professor Katia Rubio, a reference in Brazil in studies on the Olympic movement, the lack of women in leadership positions in both sports and management has also reflected in the results obtained by them throughout history.

“Women were poorly trained, they were under-trained, I would say. This had an impact, obviously, on the results. So, as the training develops competently, just as it was given to men, the result It’s automatic,” he says.

In Paris, Brazil will have five teams, four for women (football, volleyball, handball and 7-a-side rugby) and one for men (volleyball). The main absences in the men’s team are the football, basketball and handball teams.

Although the losses have a significant impact on the Brazilian delegation, the growth in women’s participation already reflects an achievement of feminist movements in the world and in sport, which led to the gradual increase of athletes in competitions.

Historically, there have been peak moments in this search, such as the Los Angeles Games in 1984, with 23% female participation, followed by 44% in London 2012, and 48% in Tokyo 2020 —the best mark so far—, until reaching 50 % at the Paris Olympic Games, the first in history with this balance.

Of the 10,500 athletes participating in the Paris Olympics, there will be 5,250 men and 5,250 women. This is a very different scenario from a hundred years ago, when Paris also hosted the Games. In that edition, most sports were exclusively practiced by men.

In addition to there being no Brazilian women in the delegation, only some disciplines at the Games included female participation, such as diving, swimming, fencing, individual foil and tennis.

The small female participation reflected the vision of the father of the Modern Olympics, Baron Pierre de Coubertin. For him, there would be no reason to include women in the Games, except for applauding at the awards ceremony.

“The history of the Olympic Games reflects society”, says COB’s sports development manager and woman in sport, Taciana Pinto. “At the end of the 19th century, sport was not for the whole society, it was restricted to white men from the privileged classes. When Pierre de Coubertin designed the Games of the Modern Era, he understood that the Olympics with women would be impractical, uninteresting, unaesthetic and inappropriate,” she explains.

Over the decades, the IOC (International Olympic Committee) has been trying to overcome this position, although the impact of this takes time to appear. In 1991, the entity determined that all sports to be included in the Games must have female participation.

More than 20 years after this determination, in London-2012, all 204 national federations took women in their delegations, something unprecedented in the history of the Olympics and fundamental for Paris-2024 to achieve gender equality.

“Despite reaching an equal number of athletes at the Paris Games, we will not, for example, have the same number of medals distributed to men and women”, criticizes Taciana Pinto.

“Having successful female athletes can have an impact on changing the outlook of people who think that women are not capable”, concludes the sports development manager and woman in sport.

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See the Brazilians classified for the Paris Games

Athletics (12 athletes)

Alison dos Santos (400m dash and 400m hurdles)
Darlan Romani (shot put)
Érica Sena (race walk 20km)
Caio Bonfim (20km race walk)
Daniel Nascimento (marathon)
Rafael Pereira (110m hurdles)
Erik Cardoso (100m dash)
Felipe Bardi (100m dash)
Almir Júnior (triple jump)
Lucas Carvalho (400m dash)
Viviane Lyra (race walking 20km)
Matheus Lima (400m dash and 400m hurdles)

Boxing (10)

Up to 50kg – Caroline Almeida
Up to 54kg – Tatiana Chagas
Up to 57kg – Jucielen Romeu
Up to 57kg – Luiz Oliveira
Up to 60kg – Bia Ferreira
Up to 66kg – Bárbara Santos
Up to 51kg – Michael Douglas
Up to 80kg- Wanderley Pereira
Up to 92kg – Keno Marley
Over 92kg – Abner Teixeira

Slalom canoeing (3)

C1 women’s and cross – Ana Sátila
K1 female – Name to be defined
Men’s K1 – Pepê Gonçalves (will also compete in the extreme competition)

Sprint canoeing (1)

Men’s C1 1,000m – name to be defined

Women’s BMX Cycling (1)

Name to be defined

Road Cycling (2)

Names to be defined (Brazil won places in the women’s and men’s via ranking)

Fencing (3)

Women’s sword – Nathalie Moellhausen
Men’s foil – Guilherme Toldo
Women’s foil – Mariana Pistoia

Women’s Football (18)

Names will still be confirmed in the call

Women’s artistic gymnastics (5)

Five gymnasts to be defined

Men’s artistic gymnastics (2)

Diogo Soares
A vacancy for Brazil – name to be defined

Trampoline gymnastics (2)

A vacancy for women – name to be defined
One place for men – name to be defined

Women’s rhythmic gymnastics (6)

A place in the general individual – name to be defined
Five places in the set – names to be defined

Handball (14)

Women’s team

Equestrian (7)

Jumping team – three names to be defined (spots can be filled by men or women)
CCE team – three names to be defined
Dressage – a name to be defined

Judo (10)

Larissa Pimenta (52kg)
Rafaela Silva (57kg)
Mayra Aguiar (78kg)
Beatriz Souza (+78kg)
William Lima (66kg)
Daniel Cargnin (73kg)
Guilherme Schmidt (81 kg)
Rafael Macedo (90kg)
Leonardo Gonçalves (100kg)
Rafael Silva (+100kg)

Weight Lifting (1)

Laura Amaro (81kg)

Water Marathon (2)

10km – Ana Marcela Cunha
10km – Viviane Jungblut

Swimming (16 in total)

200m freestyle – Maria Fernanda Costa made the index
400m freestyle – Gabi Roncatto made the index
400m freestyle – Maria Fernanda Costa made the index
1500m freestyle – Beatriz Dizotti made the index
4x100m freestyle – women’s team
4x200m freestyle – women’s team
100m freestyle – Guilherme Caribé made the index
400m freestyle – Guilherme Costa made the index
100m butterfly – Kayky Mota made the index
200m freestyle – Guilherme Costa made the index
4x100m freestyle – men’s team
4x200m freestyle – men’s team
4x100m mixed medley

Modern pentathlon (1)

Isabela Abreu

Rowing (2)

Men’s single sculls – Lucas Verthein
Women’s single sculls – Beatriz Tavares

Women’s rugby sevens (12)

Names will still be confirmed in the call

Ornamental heels (2)

Women’s 10m platform – name to be defined
Men’s 10m platform – name to be defined

Surfing (6)

Tatiana Weston-Webb
Taina Hinckel
Luana Silva

Filipe Toledo
João Chianca
Gabriel Medina

Taekwondo (4)

Maria Clara Pacheco (up to 57kg)
Caroline Gomes (up to 67kg)
Edival Pontes (up to 68kg)
Henrique Marques (up to 80kg)

Sneakers (1)

Women’s singles – Laura Pigossi

Table tennis (6)

Men’s team – 3
Women’s team – 3
Vitor Ishiy and Bruna Takahashi qualified in the mixed doubles (they will compete as teams too)

Archery (2)

Men’s singles – name to be defined
Women’s singles – name to be defined

Sports shooting (3)

Skeet – name to be defined
Men’s 10m air pistol – name to be defined
50m rifle 3 Positions – name to be defined

Triathlon (1)

Masculine

Candle (4)

Male Iqfoil – name to be defined
Kite Formula – name to be defined
49erFX – names to be defined

Volleyball (24)

Women’s team
Men’s team

Beach volleyball (2)

Ana Patrícia and Duda

Source: COB (Brazilian Olympic Committee)