Daniel Borges Cargnin (born 20 December 1997 in

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. He won the silver medal at the 2025 World Championships, and bronze medal at the 2020 Olympic Games and the 2022 World Championships, in addition to being three-time Pan American Judo champion.

Career

Judo entered Cargnin's life very early, at the age of six. Encouraged by a school friend, the Porto Alegre native started playing the sport at an academy in

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, in the metropolitan region of Porto Alegre. He began to stand out and, at the age of 13, he received an invitation from coach Antônio Carlos Pereira, known as Kiko, to join the Sogipa team. However, until his adolescence, the gaucho still shared his attention with football — he was a right-back at Grêmio's schools. Until one day his mother, Ana Rita, advised her son to dedicate himself to just one of the activities. That was when Daniel chose judo and, since then, his evolution has been constant. 2018 World Judo Championships 129

Since 2015, Daniel has participated in competitions for both the junior and senior Brazilian teams. But it was in 2017, after winning the 2017 World Judo Juniors Championships in Zagreb and becoming champion of the Olympic Trials, that Cargnin established himself in the main team, at the age of 20. In Brazil, he was the main name in the welterweight division (-66kg):

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champion, two-time Pan American champion (

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) and runner-up at the 2019 Pan American Games in Lima. Cargnin won a bronze medal at the

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. On June 16, 2021, Cargnin was called up by the Brazilian Judo Confederation (CBJ) for his first Olympics: the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, in Japan. The gaucho fought on July 25, the second day of the competition in Tokyo, and won the bronze medal. Daniel started the competition by beating the Egyptian Mohamed Abdelmawgoud, by ippon, on the golden score. Then, in the round of 16, he beat Moldovan Denis Vieru with a wazari also on the golden score. In the quarterfinals, he defeated the Italian

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, world runner-up and leader of the ranking, with a wazari. In the semi-final, he lost by ippon to Japanese

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, two-time world champion. And, in the bronze medal match, he beat Israeli Baruch Shmailov with a wazari. In January 2022, the judoka from Porto Alegre switched categories: he started to represent Brazil in the lightweight category (up to 73kg). At the

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held in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, he won a bronze medal defeating world champion

. At the

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and a bronze at the

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. In 2023, Cargnin reached his third individual title at the

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and also won a gold medal in the Brazil's mixed team, and at the

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, he reached the final, but due to a physical injury, he had to abandon the final, leaving the gold to his fellow compatriot Gabriel Falcão, ensuring, however, a place for the

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. He also obtained a silver medal for participating in the mixed team modality. At the

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, held in Rio de Janeiro, Cargnin reached the final, where, in a controversial fight, where the referee did not give several blows applied by the Brazilian to the Canadian Arthur Margelidon, and also stopped applying shidos to the Canadian, the Brazilian ended up with silver. At the 2024 Judo World Championships, Cargnin reached the bronze medal match, but finished in 5th place in the competition. At the

in Paris, he lost in his debut to Kosovar Akil Gjakova. In the team competition, he lost two fights but ended up winning the bronze medal along with the rest of the Brazilian team. At the 2025 Pan American-Oceania Judo Championships, held in Santiago, he won a silver medal. At the 2025 World Judo Championships, Cargnin won 5 consecutive fights and reached the final for the first time in his career, defeating judokas such as European champion Akil Gjakova and Japanese Tatsuki Ishihara along the way. In the final, against Frenchman Joan-Benjamin Gaba, Olympic runner-up, he took the fight to the golden score, where he started bleeding from the head and ended up being defeated, finishing with the silver medal, in his best campaign in world championships.

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