Brazil Wins Five Gold, Seven Silver and Four Bronze Medals in the World Judo Veterans Championship
Last weekend, September 27th-28th, there was held the World Judo Veterans Championship in Málaga, Spain. The total number of registered people, competitors, coaches and officials, was 1519. Coming from 52 countries, 1250 athletes stepped on the tatamis in order to defend the world title. Brazil, represented by 35 judokas, left the European city with five gold medals won by Cristian Cezario, Elton Fiebig, Irahy Tedesco, Rosangela Oliveira and Iraci da Silva; seven silver awards got by Humberto Alonso, Renato Ramos, Joceli de Lima, Rogeria da Silva, Katia da Silva, Andrea de Souza, Nelson Onmura and five bronze medals awarded to Edson Schultz da Silva, Alberto Nogueira de Carvalho, Luiz Virgilia de Moura, Pedro Ribeiro da Cruz and Fatima Camargo.
Apart from the awarded athletes, there were other Brazilians who participating in the event, such as: Argeu Cardoso, Daniel Menezes, Ubiracy Moraes, Pedro Cruz, Rosangela Oliveira, Helnio Carvalho, Leandro Bello, Hisao Fujimoto, Katia Maria da Silva, Vanderlei Cardoso, Vitor de Freitas, Marco Aurelio Trinca, Marco Francisco da Silva, Ricardo Campos, Fatima de Camargo, Segio Honda, Acacio Junior, Rogeria da Silva, Bahjet Hayek, Alexandro de Freitas, Rodrigo Motta, Jairo Junior, Humberto Alonso, Fernanda Oliveira, Gleyson Alves, Heitor Mello, Fernando da Silva, Takeshi Miura, Fernando Soares, Fabio Moreira, Marcos Roberto da Cunha, Braulio Barboza, Marco Leite, Willian de Oliveira, Danilo Tadeu Pietrucci, Flávio Pinheiro, Beni Waiswol, Mariza dos Santos, Maria de Jesus da Gama, Cláudio Araújo, Phylippis Marques, Robert Marques, Alberto Marques, Delfin Dias, Kleber Gallart, Luiz Virgilio de Moura, Marcus Andre Ribeiro, Carlos Roberto Peres, Célio Batista, Anilton Rocha Junior, Alexandre Duarte, Victor Mauro, Carlos Neto, José Augusto Silva and Paulo Afonso.
