Rosângela Conceição
Rosângela Conceição | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Born | Rosângela da Silva Conceição August 7, 1973 São Leopoldo, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Other names | Zanza | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | Brazilian | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1,72 m | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 72 kg (159 lb; 11 st 5 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Rank | Black belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Rosângela "Zanza" Conceição is a retired wrestler from Brazil. A former judo and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu she was the first Brazilian woman to compete in Olympic wrestling, doing so in the 2008 Olympic Games.[1][2]
She retired in 2013, and currently resides in Dubai, teaching jiu-jitsu in a program funded by Mohamed bin Zayed.[3]
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Categories:
- Living people
- Brazilian female sport wrestlers
- Olympic wrestlers of Brazil
- Wrestlers at the 2007 Pan American Games
- Wrestlers at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Pan American Games bronze medalists for Brazil
- Pan American Games medalists in wrestling
- South American Games gold medalists for Brazil
- South American Games medalists in judo
- 1973 births
- People from São Leopoldo
- Competitors at the 2002 South American Games
- Medalists at the 2007 Pan American Games
- World Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Championship medalists
- Brazilian martial arts biography stubs
- South American sport wrestler stubs