Edinanci Silva
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Edinanci Fernandes da Silva (born August 23, 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]
References
- ^ The gender trap
- ^ Wallechinsky, David (2012). The Book of Olympic Lists. p. 20. ISBN 978-1845137731.
External links
- (in Portuguese) Profile
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- 1976 births
- Intersex sportspeople
- Intersex women
- Living people
- Judoka at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Judoka at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Judoka at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Judoka at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Judoka at the 1999 Pan American Games
- Judoka at the 2003 Pan American Games
- Judoka at the 2007 Pan American Games
- Olympic judoka of Brazil
- Brazilian female judoka
- Pan American Games gold medalists for Brazil
- Pan American Games bronze medalists for Brazil
- Pan American Games medalists in judo
- Medalists at the 1999 Pan American Games
- Medalists at the 2003 Pan American Games
- Medalists at the 2007 Pan American Games
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