Sérgio Pessoa Explained

Birth Place:São Paulo, Brazil
Country:Canada
Weight Class:60 kg
Worlds Rank:R16
Worlds Year:2013
Worlds Weight:Men's 60 kg
Regionals Type:AM
Regionals Rank:2
Regionals Year:2012
Regionals Year2:2016
Olympics Rank:R32
Olympics Year:2012
Olympics Weight:Men's 60 kg
Olympics Year2:2016
Olympics Weight2:Men's 60 kg
Updated:27 December 2022

Sérgio Pessoa (born 3 September 1988) is a Brazilian-born Canadian judoka who competes in the men's 60 kg category.[1]

Career

At the 2012 Summer Olympics, he was defeated in the second round. He finished 5th at the 2015 Pan American Games.

Since the 2012 Summer Olympics, Sergio underwent two major knee surgeries, from which many thought he would never recover. In 2014, he finally made it back to the tatami with his eye on the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio.

In June 2016, he was named to Canada's Olympic team.[2]

Honours

In 2012 Pessoa was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal.[3]

Personal life

His father, also named Sergio competed at the 1988 Summer Olympics in the same weight class he competes in (60 kg) and finished in ninth. His family moved from São Paulo to Kedgwick, New Brunswick in 2005 when his dad got a job coaching judo. His father had originally worked as a stock broker but wanted his sons to have a better life and a better education in Canada.[1]

See also

Notes and References

  1. http://olympic.ca/team-canada/sergio-pessoa/ Canadian Olympic Committee profile
  2. News: Asif. Hossain. Valois-Fortier headlines eight judokas nominated to Olympic team for Rio 2016. Canadian Olympic Committee. 28 June 2016. 11 July 2016.
  3. Web site: London 2012 Olympians, Paralympians and builders honoured with Diamond Jubilee Medal in Montreal. Official Canadian Olympic Team Website Team Canada 2016 Olympic Games. 1 June 2017. 1 March 2013. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20160313091634/http://olympic.ca/press/london-2012-olympians-paralympians-and-builders-honoured-with-diamond-jubilee-medal-in-montreal-2/. 13 March 2016.