Edinanci Fernandes da Silva (born 23 August 1976) is a

judoka is an unarmed modern Japanese martial art, Olympic sport (since 1964), and the most prominent form of jacket wrestling competed internationally.『日本大百科全書』電子版【柔道】(CD-ROM version of Encyclopedia Nipponica, "Judo"). ...

from Brazil, who won the gold medal in the half heavyweight division (– 78 kg) at the

Pan American Games The Pan American Games (also known colloquially as the Pan Am Games) is a continental multi-sport event in the Americas featuring summer sports, in which thousands of athletes participate in a variety of competitions. The competition is held ...

. A resident of São Paulo born in Sousa,

Paraíba Paraíba ( Tupi: ''pa'ra a'íba''; ) is a state of Brazil. It is located in the Brazilian Northeast, and it is bordered by Rio Grande do Norte to the north, Ceará to the west, Pernambuco to the south and the Atlantic Ocean to the east. Paraíba ...

, she represented her country at four consecutive

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, starting in

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in Atlanta, Georgia. Edinanci is born intersex. In the mid-1990s she had surgery, in order to live and compete as a woman.

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