Portuguese judoka (born 1999)
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 1 August 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.
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