Country: | Brazil |
Weight Class: | 72 kg, 78 kg |
Worlds Rank: | 3 |
Worlds Year: | 1997 |
Worlds Weight: | Women's 72 kg |
Worlds Year2: | 2003 |
Worlds Weight2: | Women's 78 kg |
Regionals Type: | AM |
Regionals Rank: | 1 |
Regionals Year: | 2003 |
Regionals Year2: | 2004 |
Regionals Year3: | 2006 |
Regionals Year4: | 2007 |
Olympics Rank: | 5 |
Olympics Year: | 2008 |
Olympics Weight: | Women's 78 kg |
Updated: | 19 November 2022 |
Edinanci Fernandes da Silva (born 23 August 1976) is a judoka from Brazil, who won the gold medal in the half heavyweight division (78 kg) at the Pan American Games. A resident of São Paulo born in Sousa, Paraíba, she represented her country at four consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1996 in Atlanta, Georgia.
Edinanci is born intersex. In the mid-1990s, she had surgery, in order to live and compete as a woman.[1] [2]