Five days before the end of the Tokyo Olympic Games, Brazil has already won 16 medals and is approaching its best campaigns in the history of the event.
The national delegation lived this Tuesday (3) its most awarded day since the beginning of the competitions. In this journey alone, the country was gold in sailing with Martine Grael and Kahena Kunze, and bronze with Alison dos Santos in athletics and with Abner Teixeira in boxing.
In addition to these three podiums, Brazil secured two more medals in the morning, with Bia Ferreira’s classification for the boxing semifinals (it will at least be bronze) and the victory of the Brazilian national team. football against Mexico in the semifinals, securing the silver. Besides them, Hebert Conceição will also be at least third place in boxing, and will fight his semifinal on Thursday.
Thus, Team Brazil has already reached its fourth best Olympic campaign in history in total medals, surpassing the 15 obtained at the Atlanta-1996 Olympic Games.
With many competitions to be disputed in the coming days, the tendency is for the country to equal or even surpass its own records. The best result in history was in Rio-2016, with 19 podiums. Then there are the 17 medals of London-2012 and Beijing-2008.
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