Rachel Honderich is a Canadian badminton player from Toronto, Ontario. She has been one of the top ranked women's individual and doubles player on the continent and a contender in major international competitions. She is a vice-national champion in women's singles and has won several international titles since 2010.
Ygor Coelho de Oliveira is a Brazilian badminton player. He won the Pan Am Junior Badminton Championships six times in the boys' singles and four times in the mixed doubles event with Lohaynny Vicente. Oliveira placed 27th in the world junior ranking and went on to compete at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics in Nanjing, China. He won his first senior international title at the 2014 Puerto Rico International in the men's singles event. He competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and became the first Brazil's male Olympic badminton player. He clinched three gold medals at the 2018 South American Games in the men's singles, doubles, and team event. Coelho won a gold medal in the men's singles at the 2019 Lima Pan American Games.
Bruna Yumi Takahashi is a Brazilian table tennis player. She represented Brazil at the Summer Olympics two times since 2016. She is one of the best Americas players in the ITTF world ranking, after Puerto Rico's Adriana Diaz. Her sister Giulia Takahashi also plays table tennis.
Daniela Macías Brandes is a Peruvian badminton player., Tokyo 2020 Olympian...
Katherine Wynter is a Jamaican badminton player. She won the 2016 Jamaica International tournament in the women's doubles event partnered with Ruth Williams. Wynter was the bronze medalists in the mixed doubles at the 2016 Pan Am Badminton Championships partnered with Dennis Coke, and also in the team event and women's doubles at the 2023 Central American and Caribbean Games. She competed at the 2018 and 2022 Commonwealth Games.
Fabiana da Silva is a Brazilian badminton player. She was the women's singles champion at the 2018 South American Games. She also won the bronze medal in the women's doubles at the 2019 Pan American Games. Silva competed in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
Hugo Lemos Arthuso is a Brazilian male badminton player. He competed at the Pan American Games in 2011 and 2015.
Josephine Yuenling Wu is a Canadian badminton player. She clinched three Pan American Games gold medals by winning the mixed doubles title in 2019 and 2023, and in the women's doubles title in 2023. At the Pan Am Championships, she has won seven gold and five silver medals since her debut at the tournament in 2016.
Artur Silva de Pomoceno is a Brazilian badminton player.
Katherine Winder Cochella is a Peruvian badminton player. She educated at the Universidad del Pacífico Lima, and in 2015, Winder competed at the Pan Am Games in the women's and mixed doubles event. In the women's doubles she placed 7th, while in the mixed doubles she won the bronze medal partnered with Mario Cuba. In 2010, she won the gold medal at the South American Games in the women's doubles event teamed up with Claudia Zornoza.
Alex Yuwan Tjong is a Brazilian male badminton player. He started playing badminton in his hometown in 1997 at age six because his father took him and his brothers to play badminton on a weekend. In 2004, at age 13, he selected to join the Brazil national badminton team. In 2015, at age 24, he competed at the Pan American Games and won a bronze in the mixed doubles event partnered with Lohaynny Vicente.
Ana Paula Galbiatti Campos is a Brazilian female badminton player. Teamed-up with Fabiana Silva, she won the women's doubles title in 2014 Puerto Rico and 2015 Colombia. She also won the mixed doubles title at the Suriname International tournament partnered with Jonathan Persson of Germany.
Dennis Coke is a Jamaican badminton player who competed at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics in Singapore. In 2009, he won the boys' singles and doubles at the All Jamaica Junior Championships. At the BWF International tournament, he was the men's doubles runner-up at the 2015 Carebaco International and mixed doubles runner-up at the 2017 Jamaica International. He also won the bronze medal at the 2016 Pan Am Badminton Championships in the mixed doubles event partnered with Wynter. In 2017, he won the Jamaican National Badminton Championships in the men's singles and doubles event partnered with Anthony McNee. Coke was part of the national team that won the men's team bronze at the 2018 Pan Am Men's Team Championships. In 2018, he competed at the Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast.
Paula Beatriz Pereira is a Brazilian female badminton player. She competed at the 2007 and 2015 Pan American Games. At the Brazilian National Badminton Championships, she won the women's singles title in 2011; women's doubles title in 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2012, and 2014; and in the mixed doubles title in 2012.
Sâmia Raquel Passos Lima is a Brazilian badminton player. As a junior player, she won the U-17 2016 Pan Am Junior Badminton Championships in the girls' and mixed doubles event. She won her first senior international title at the Brazil International Challenge tournament partnered with Jaqueline Lima. She was a bronze medalist in the women's doubles event at the 2019 Lima Pan American Games.
Brazil, the previous host of the 2016 Olympics at Rio de Janeiro, competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. Originally scheduled to take place from 24 July to 9 August 2020, the Games were postponed to 23 July to 8 August 2021, because of the COVID-19 pandemic. It was the nation's twenty-third appearance at the Summer Olympics, having competed in all editions of the modern era from 1920 onwards, except the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam.
Brazil competed in the 2019 Pan American Games in Lima, Peru from July 26 to August 11, 2019.
Fernanda Saponara Rivva is a Peruvian female badminton player who competes internationally.
Fabrício Ruan Rocha Farias is a Brazilian badminton player from Joca Claudino Esportes badminton club. He won the bronze medals at the 2019 Pan American Games in the men's doubles with his brother, Francielton Farias, and also in the mixed doubles with Jaqueline Lima. He later claimed the silver medal in the men's doubles at the 2023 Pan American Games with Davi Silva.
Juliana Viana Vieira is a Brazilian badminton player. She made her Olympic debut at the 2024 Summer Olympics where she represented Brazil in the women's singles event.
