| Fernanda Silva | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Personal information | |||||||||||||||
| Full name | Fernanda Emerick da Silva Rangel | ||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Brazilian | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 1 September 1958 Araraquara, Brazil | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||||||||||||||
Honours
| |||||||||||||||
Fernanda Silva (born 1 September 1958) is a Brazilian former volleyball player. She competed at the 1980 Summer Olympics and the 1984 Summer Olympics. [1]
Brazil competed at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, USSR. 106 competitors, 91 men and 15 women, took part in 72 events in 14 sports. Brazilian athletes conquered gold medals again after 24 years, since the 1956 Summer Olympics. Brazil won two gold and two bronze medals in 1980.
Brazil competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, United States. 147 competitors, 126 men and 21 women, took part in 82 events in 17 sports. The country set a record with 8 medals – only surpassed in 1996 with 15, but only one medal was gold.
Brazil competed at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. 160 competitors, 127 men and 33 women, took part in 106 events in 21 sports. Brazilians conquered 6 medals in Seoul, but only one gold medal.
Portugal competed at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea.
Portugal competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia.
The Brazil women's national volleyball team is administered by the Confederação Brasileira de Voleibol (CBV) and takes part in international volleyball competitions. It is ranked second in the FIVB World Rankings as of August 2021. They are the current record holder of FIVB World Grand Prix champion titles, having won it for the eleventh time in 2016 and are the gold medalists of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing and 2012 Summer Olympics in London. The team also got a gold four times in the Pan American Games, and three other Olympic medals, the latest a silver in the 2020 Summer Olympics.
Portugal first participated at the Olympic Games in 1912 and has since taken part in every edition of the Summer Olympic Games. Earlier that year, the Olympic Committee of Portugal was recognised by the International Olympic Committee as the Portuguese National Olympic Committee. In 1952, athletes representing Portugal competed for the first time at the Olympic Winter Games, and have only missed two editions since 1988.
São Tomé and Príncipe competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China from 8–24 August 2008. This marked the country's fourth entry in the Olympics, since its debut in the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. The country's delegation consisted of three competitors, competing in two disciplines: they were athletics competitors Naiel Santiago D'Almeida and Celma Bonfim da Graça, and canoeist Alcino Silva. None of the competitors made it to their event final, though Silva did advance to the semi-finals.
Fernanda Ryff Moreira de Oliveira Horn is a Brazilian sailor. She won a bronze medal in 470 class at the 2008 Summer Olympics. She has competed in 6 Olympic games which has only been matched by two other female sailors.
Adhemar Ferreira da Silva was a Brazilian triple jumper. He won two Olympic gold medals and set four world records, the last being 16.56 metres in 1955 Pan American Games. In his early career he also competed in the long jump, placing fourth at the 1951 Pan American Games. He broke world records in triple jump on five occasions during his illustrious career. To date, he remains the only track and field athlete from South America to have won two Olympic gold medals.
María Fernanda González Ramirez is an Olympic and National record-holding backstroke swimmer from Mexico. She swam for Mexico at the 2008 Summer Olympics.
Portugal sent a delegation to compete at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada from 12 to 28 February 2010. This was the nation's sixth appearance at a Winter Olympic Games. The Portuguese delegation consisted of a single cross-country skiing competitor, Danny Silva. He placed 95th in the 15 kilometre freestyle race.
Fernanda da Silva Souza is a Brazilian former road bicycle racer. She competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the Women's road race, but finished over the time limit.
María Fernanda Valdés Paris is a Chilean weightlifter. She won the silver medal at the 2011 Pan American Games in the 75 kg event and also at the 2015 Pan American Games in the 75 kg event.
Débora Fernanda da Silva Nunes is a Brazilian taekwondo practitioner. She competed for the women's featherweight category (57 kg) at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, after defeating tall American taekwondo jin Diana López for the gold medal at the Pan American Qualification Tournament in Cali, Colombia. She received an automatic free pass from the first round, after Niger's Lailatou Amadou Lele had been disqualified from the competition. She lost the quarterfinal match by a decisive point from Croatia's Martina Zubčić, with a score of 2–3.
Fernanda Porto Venturini is a former volleyball player from Brazil and a four-time Olympian. She competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, where she won the bronze medal with the Brazilian women's national volleyball team. She is regarded as one of the best setters of all time.
Deolinda Fernanda da Silva Marques is a Portuguese long-distance runner. She competed in the women's 10,000 metres at the 1992 Summer Olympics.
Orlando Silva Infante is a Chilean basketball player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1952 Summer Olympics and the 1956 Summer Olympics.
The following teams and players took part in the women's volleyball tournament at the 1980 Summer Olympics, in Moscow.
The following teams and players took part in the women's volleyball tournament at the 1984 Summer Olympics, in Los Angeles.
 | This biographical article relating to volleyball in Brazil is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
