Rafaela Silva

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Rafaela Silva (2016)

Rafaela Lopes Silva (born April 24, 1992 in Rio de Janeiro ) is a Brazilian judoka and 2016 Olympic champion in the lightweight category up to 57 kilograms.

Athletic career

Rafaela Silva won the title at the Junior World Championships in 2008. The following year, she took second place at the South American Championships. At the Judo World Championships in 2009 , she reached fifth place. In 2011 she received the bronze medal at the Pan American Championships. Four months later, she won the silver medal at the 2011 Judo World Championships after losing to Japanese Aiko Satō in the final . In October 2011, she lost in the final of the Pan American Games against Yurisleidy Lupetey from Cuba. In 2012 Silva won the Pan American Championships. At the 2012 Olympic Games , she was eliminated in the round of 16 against the Hungarian Hedvig Karakas .

2013 Silva won the Pan American Championships in April. In August 2013, the 1.69 m tall judoka won the title at the World Championships in her hometown of Rio de Janeiro, and Brazil won the silver medal in the team competition. In 2014 she received the silver medal at the Pan American Championships. In 2015 she won silver at the Pan American Championships and bronze at the Pan American Games . She achieved her greatest success at the 2016 Olympic Games in her hometown, when she won the gold medal by beating the Mongolian Dorjsurengiin Sumjaa in the final .

In 2018 Silva won the title at the military world championships. In April 2019 she finished second at the Pan American Championships in Lima. Three and a half months later, the Pan American Games also took place in Lima and Rafaela Silva won the final against Ana Rosa from the Dominican Republic. Two and a half weeks later she lost to the Japanese Tsukasa Yoshida in the semifinals of the World Championships in Tokyo , but won bronze by defeating French Sarah Léonie Cysique .

In September 2019, it was announced that she had given a positive doping test at the Pan American Games in August . She was stripped of her gold medal for taking the banned asthma drug Fenoterol. She was then banned for two years in January 2020; However, Silva announced that she would appeal.

background

Silva grew up in the favela Cidade de Deus . Her sporting success despite her social background received a lot of attention and made her a sporting idol and figurehead of Brazilian sport.

Silva is in a relationship with her press officer Thamara Cezar.

Web links

Commons : Rafaela Silva  - Collection of Images

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Pan American Games 2019 at judoinside.com.
  2. ↑ a b Doping allegation. Judoka Silva has to return gold medal at Pan American Games . In: Spiegel Online . September 26, 2019 ( spiegel.de [accessed September 26, 2019]).
  3. ↑ Judo Olympic champion Silva banned for doping. In: Deutschlandfunk.de. January 26, 2020, accessed January 29, 2020.
  4. ↑ Após puxão de orelha, Rafaela Silva mira novo ouro no Mundial. September 20, 2018, Retrieved September 26, 2019 (Brazilian Portuguese).
  5. ↑ Donna Bowater: Rio 2016 Olympics: Inspirational Rafaela Silva hopes to achieve sweet redemption in her home city . In: The Telegraph . August 4, 2016, ISSN  0307-1235 ( telegraph.co.uk [accessed September 26, 2019]).
  6. ↑ From the favela to Olympus? / The impressive career of the judo world champion Rafaela Silva / On August 27, 2014, 10:25 am and 11:25 am in SWRinfo and on sportschau.de . In: Presseportal.de. August 26, 2014, accessed September 26, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Rio: Gold medal winner is coming out. In: Queer.de. August 11, 2016, accessed January 29, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Silva, Rafaela
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Silva, Rafaela Lopes (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Brazilian judoka
DATE OF BIRTH April 24, 1992
PLACE OF BIRTH Rio de Janeiro