The Brazilian Athletics Confederation (CBAt; ''Confederação Brasileira de Atletismo'') is the governing body for the sport of athletics in

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. President for the period 2013-2016 is José Antonio Martins Fernandes.

History

CBAt was founded on December 2, 1977. It replaced the Federação Brasileira de Sportes Atleticos, which was founded in 1914. Former president until 2013 was Roberto Gesta de Melo.

Affiliations

CBAt is the national member federation for Brazil in the following international organisations: *

World Athletics World Athletics, formerly known as the International Amateur Athletic Federation (from 1912 to 2001) and International Association of Athletics Federations (from 2001 to 2019, both abbreviated as the IAAF) is the international governing body fo ...

* Confederación Sudamericana de Atletismo (CONSUDATLE; ''South American Athletics Confederation'') *

Association of Panamerican Athletics The Association of Panamerican Athletics (APA; Spanish: ''Asociación Panamericana de Atletismo'') is a new regional confederation governing body of athletics for national governing bodies and multi-national federations within Northern, Central, ...

(APA) *

Asociación Iberoamericana de Atletismo The Asociación Iberoamericana de Atletismo (AIA; ''Iberoamerican Athletics Association'') is the governing body for the sport of athletics of European, Latinamerican, and African countries with iberian origin and/or Spanish or Portuguese languag ...

(AIA; ''Ibero-American Athletics Association'') Moreover, it is part of the following national organisations: *

Brazilian Olympic Committee The Brazilian Olympic Committee or BOC ( pt, Comitê Olímpico do Brasil – COB) is the highest authority in Brazilian sport and the governing body of Brazilian Olympic sport. It was officially founded on June 8, 1914, but World War I cause ...

Member federations

CBAt comprises the athletics federations of the Brazilian federal states.

Kit suppliers

Brazil's kits are currently supplied by

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National records

CBAt maintains the Brazilian records in athletics

References

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