Edinanci Silva Explained

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]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: The gender trap: testing the sex of Olympians competing in Beijing . 2008-07-29 . . https://web.archive.org/web/20230324144438/https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2008/jul/30/olympicgames2008.gender . 2023-03-24 . live .
  2. Book: Wallechinsky, David . The Book of Olympic Lists . registration . 2012 . 978-1845137731 . 20.