Sarah Menezes

Sarah Menezes

Sarah Gabrielle Cabral de Menezes (born March 26, 1990 in Teresina , Piauí ) is a Brazilian judoka . It competes in the super lightweight (class up to 48 kilograms).

Menezes won her first national title at the Brazilian championships in 2005 and was able to defend it in 2006, and in 2008 she was third. Also in 2005 she finished third in her weight class at the Pan American Championships in Caguas , and in 2009 in Buenos Aires . In 2010 she won the Pan American Championships in San Salvador . Menezes won her first global championship title at the Junior World Championships in Bangkok in October 2008 , and she also won numerous other international tournaments or placed in the top ranks.

In the 2009 World Judo Championships in Rotterdam Menezes Fifth and a year later at the 2010 World Judo Championships in Tokyo Third, as the 2011 World Judo Championships in Paris .

2008 Sarah Menezes took the first time at the Summer Olympics in Beijing in part, but finished only 19th place With the 2012 Summer Games in London , she won the gold medal in her weight class with a win over the Romanian and reigning Olympic champion Alina Dumitru after already in The semi-final against the Belgian and later bronze medalist Charline Van Snick had won.

In 2016, Menezes finished seventh at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro .

Web links

• Sarah Menezes on Judoinside (English)
• Sarah Menezes on the 2012 Olympic Games homepage
• Sarah Menezes in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )