Leandro Guilheiro | |
Birth Name: | Leandro Marques Guilheiro |
Birth Date: | 7 August 1983 |
Birth Place: | Suzano, Brazil |
Country: | Brazil |
Weight Class: | –73 kg, –81 kg |
Worlds Rank: | 2 |
Worlds Year: | 2010 |
Worlds Weight: | Men's 81 kg |
Regionals Type: | AM |
Regionals Rank: | 1 |
Regionals Year: | 2009 |
Regionals Year2: | 2011 |
Regionals Year3: | 2012 |
Olympics Rank: | 3 |
Olympics Year: | 2004 |
Olympics Weight: | Men's 73 kg |
Olympics Year2: | 2008 |
Olympics Weight2: | Men's 73 kg |
Updated: | 30 May 2023 |
Leandro Marques Guilheiro (born 7 August 1983) is a Brazilian male judoka. He won bronze medals in the lightweight (73 kg) division at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece and at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. He became the first Brazilian judoka to win medals at two consecutive Olympic Games. Guilheiro plays a classical style of judo fighting in an upright stance and using techniques such as uchi mata, ippon seoi nage, morate seoi nage and o soto gari. He has done modeling work in Brazil.[1]