The Winter Olympics in Milan and Cortina will take place from February 6th to 22nd and Brazil will have the largest delegation in its history at the Winter Games, with 14 athletes, as well as a reserve in bobsled.
Among them, some are already known to the Brazilian public, such as Lucas Pinheiro Braathen, one of the main medal bets in alpine skiing, and Edson Bindilatti, Olympic record holder and highlight of the bobsled team.
Alpine Skiing
Lucas Pinheiro Braathen
At 25 years old, he won an unprecedented title for Brazil at the alpine skiing World Cup, in Levi, Finland, in November last year. The result boosted public interest in the country.
Data from Google Trends shows a spike in searches during that period and indicates that he is the most searched Brazilian among the athletes in the delegation, with demand on the rise since then.
Son of a Norwegian father and Brazilian mother, he broke with the Norwegian federation and started competing for Brazil. He is considered the Brazilian athlete most likely to win the country’s first Winter Olympic medal.
Christian Oliveira Soevik
He followed Braathen’s movement and also exchanged the Norwegian flag for the Brazilian one. At 24 years old, the skier, born in Rio de Janeiro and raised in Norway, will make his debut at the Olympic Games. At the 2022 Junior World Cup, he achieved two top ten results: sixth in the combined and tenth in the giant slalom.
Givovanni Ongaro
The youngest member of the team, aged 22, will compete in his first Olympics. Born in Italy and the son of a Brazilian mother, he started competing for Brazil in 2024.
Alice Padilha
At 18 years old, she is the fourth woman to represent Brazil in alpine skiing and the first since Maya Harrison, in Sochi-2014. Born in Rio de Janeiro, she currently lives in Killington, in the state of Vermont, in the USA.
Esqui Cross-Country
Manex Silva
The 23-year-old athlete will compete in his second Olympics, after Beijing-2022. Born in Rio Branco, he moved to Spain as a child with his parents and has the best male results in Brazil in cross-country skiing.
Eduarda Ribera
At 21, he will make his second Olympic appearance. He also competed in Beijing-2022, at 17, when he finished 88th in the sprint and 90th in the classic cross-country. Alongside Jaqueline Mourão, he was also 23rd in the team sprint.
Bruna Moura
In January 2022, Bruna suffered a serious car accident in Italy, on her way to the airport to board her first Olympics, in Beijing. She had eight fractures and injuries that left her unable to walk for two months and required around a year and a half of physiotherapy.
After recovering, he switched from cycling to rollerskiing and then cross-country skiing. Now, at 31, he is realizing his Olympic dream.
Bobsled
Edson Bindilatti
Born in Camamu (BA), Bindilatti, 46, will make his sixth Olympic appearance in bobsled, defending Brazil. With this, he becomes the country’s single record holder at the Winter Olympic Games, surpassing Jaqueline Mourão, who competed in five editions.
After announcing his retirement in 2022, he returned in 2024 to help with the Olympic qualification. With a modern sled from Latvia (R$350,000), the Brazilian team placed 13th in the 2025 World Cup and secured their place. Now, he’s aiming for a great result in Italy.
Davidson’s Souza
In addition to Bindilatti, the Brazilian sled in Italy will have Davidson de Souza, 33, known as “Boka”. He was in Sochi-2014 as a reserve. After those Games, he moved to Canada, where he obtained citizenship and played for the Canadian team between 2022 and 2023.
In December 2024, he suffered a serious accident with a head-on sled collision, which resulted in a fractured femur and multiple fractures. After recovering, he returned to competitions to reinforce Brazil in the 2025/2026 season.
Rafael Souza
Rafael Souza, 29, from Rio de Janeiro, is also part of the team. In bobsled since 2015, he is preparing for his third Olympics, after competing in PyeongChang-2018 and Beijing-2022.
Luis Berry
He comes from athletics, a sport in which he competed for 12 years in the triple jump and was Brazilian under-23 champion in 2020. He joined bobsled in 2021 and is the most recent member of the squad.
Gustavo Ferreira
The youngest on the team at 23 years old, he started his career in athletics, in the 100 m and 200 m events. After switching to bobsled, he competed in the Lausanne 2020 Winter Youth Olympic Games, in monobob, and finished in 13th place.
Skeleton
Nicole Silveira
The 30-year-old from Rio Grande do Sul who lives in Canada made history by winning bronze in the skeleton World Cup stage in PyeongChang, South Korea, in November 2024. It was Brazil’s first podium in winter sports World Cups.
On two other occasions, she also finished in the top three in circuit stages. Now, it arrives as one of the main Brazilian bets for this year’s Winter Games.
Snowboard
Pat Burgener
He left the Swiss federation for the Brazilian one last year. Son of a Lebanese-Brazilian mother, he obtained Brazilian citizenship at the beginning of 2025. In the 2024/2025 season, at the age of 31, he finished 10th in the halfpipe snowboard World Cup rankings.
Augustinho Teixeira
Born in Ushuaia, the southernmost city in Argentina, Augustinho is the son of an Argentine father and a Brazilian mother. At 21, he will make his Olympic debut in Milan-Cortina. He is the older brother of João Teixeira, who also practices snowboarding.
