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Brazil competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, from 13 to 29 August 2004. This was the nation's nineteenth appearance at the Summer Olympics, excluding the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam. The Brazilian Olympic Committee ((ポルトガル語:Comitê Olímpico Brasileiro), ''COB'') sent the nation's largest ever delegation in history to the Games. A total of 243 athletes, 124 men and 119 women, competed in 24 sports.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Brazil at the 2004 Summer Games )〕 Brazil left Athens with a total of 10 medals (5 golds, 2 silver, and 3 bronze), the lowest in Summer Olympics since 1992. Although the nation's final medal count could not surpass its previous records set in Atlanta (15 medals) and Sydney (12 medals), Brazil produced the most number of golds at a single games, making it the most successful Olympics. Three of these medals were awarded to the team in beach and indoor volleyball, and two each in judo and sailing. Brazil's team-based athletes proved particularly successful in Athens, as the men's indoor volleyball team (led by Giba) and the women's football team (led by Formiga) won gold and silver medals, respectively. Among the nation's medalists were beach volleyball tandem Ricardo Santos and Emanuel Rego, Laser sailor Robert Scheidt, and judoka Leandro Guilheiro and Flávio Canto. Star sailor Torben Grael, who shared his gold medal with partner Marcelo Ferreira, became one of the most successful Brazilian athletes in Olympic history with a total of five medals. Meanwhile, marathon runner and Olympic bronze medalist Vanderlei de Lima added a prestigious Pierre de Coubertin Medal to his achievements for sportsmanship, after he was immediately attacked by Irish protester Cornelius Horan, who pushed him on the side of the road four miles from the finish. On October 8, 2004, the International Federation for Equestrian Sports ordered a suspension for Ireland's Cian O'Connor after his horse Waterford Crystal failed a doping test for fluphenazine and zuclopenthixol. Because O'Connor decided not to appeal and formally strip off his Olympic title in men's show jumping, silver medalist Rodrigo Pessoa was subsequently awarded and received his gold medal at a public ceremony on Copacabana Beach in August 2005.〔 ==Medalists== | width=78% align=left valign=top | | width="22%" align="left" valign="top" | 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Brazil at the 2004 Summer Olympics」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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