team went one step further by winning a silver medal at the 1987 Indianapolis Pan American Games. In 1991, Hortência and the Brazilian women's national basketball team won the gold medal at that year's Pan American tournament held in Cuba. In 1992, Hortência helped her team to a bronze medal at the Pre-Olympic competition held in Spain, returning later that year to that country to play in the Olympic Games for the first time. Brazil settled for seventh place at the Barcelona Olympics. Finally in 1994, Hortência won the women's world basketball championship in Australia, making Brazil the only country other than the Soviet Union or the United States to win the title (Australia became the fourth in 2006). The semi-final game against the USA is considered one of the greatest in history, and Brazil shocked the world with the victory. After the silver medal in the next Olympic Games, Marcari retired from international competition. Apart from those competitions, she also played in Peru, Singapore, Malaysia, Bulgaria and South Korea. Despite the fact her team did not qualify for the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles, Hortência was featured on those games' official program, in an article named The Queen. On 5 August 2016, she became the penultimate torch bearer for the 2016 Summer Olympics torch relay, being the link between Gustavo Kuerten who brought the torch into the Olympic Stadium, and the cauldron lighter, Vanderlei de Lima, during the Opening Ceremonies. Her son, João Victor, participated in dressage competitions at the 2016 Summer Olympics. See also List of basketball players who have scored 100 points in a single game List of Brazilians Women's Basketball Hall of Fame References External links Confederação Brasileira de Basketball's page on Hortência 1959 births Living people Basketball players at the 1979 Pan American Games Basketball players at the 1983 Pan American Games Basketball players at the 1987 Pan American Games Basketball players at the 1991 Pan American Games Basketball players at the 1992 Summer Olympics Basketball players at the 1996 Summer Olympics Brazilian expatriate basketball people Brazilian people of Italian descent Brazilian women's basketball players FIBA Hall of Fame inductees Medalists at the 1996 Summer Olympics Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame inductees Olympic basketball players of Brazil Olympic medalists in basketball Olympic silver medalists for Brazil Pan American Games bronze medalists for Brazil Pan American Games gold medalists for Brazil Pan American Games medalists