| Full Name: | Patrícia Fernandes Sampaio |
| Nationality: | Portuguese |
| Birth Date: | 30 June 1999 |
| Birth Place: | Tomar,[1] Portugal |
| Height: | 1.70 m |
| Country: | Portugal |
| Weight Class: | 70 kg, 78 kg |
| Olympics Rank: | 3 |
| Olympics Year: | 2024 |
| Olympics Weight: | Women's 78 kg |
| Worlds Rank: | 5 |
| Worlds Year: | 2019 |
| Worlds Weight: | Women's 78 kg |
| Regionals Type: | EU |
| Regionals Rank: | 3 |
| Regionals Year: | 2023 |
| Regionals Weight: | Women's 78 kg |
| Updated: | 3 August 2024 |
Patrícia Fernandes Sampaio (born 30 June 1999) is a Portuguese judoka.[2] [3] In 2021, she competed in the women's 78 kg event at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan, where she reached the Round of 16.[4] In 2024, in the Paris Olympics, she won the bronze medal.[5]
She is the gold medallist of the 2019 Judo Perth Oceania Open in the -70 kg category.[6]
She won one of the bronze medals in her event at the 2022 Judo Grand Slam Tel Aviv held in Tel Aviv, Israel.[7]
On August 1, 2024, she won the bronze medal in the 78 kg category at the Paris Olympics.[8] [9] The judoka had been eliminated in the semi-finals[10] by the ranking leader in the category,[11] Italy's Alice Bellandi—who would end up taking the gold in the competition.[12] In the battle for the bronze, Patrícia defeated Japan's Takayama Rika with two waza-aris: the first at 1:10 ("O-soto-gaeshi") and the second, which would end up sealing her victory, at 3:05 ("Seoi-otoshi").[13] This was the first Portuguese medal of these Olympic Games.