Rafael Godoy de Macedo (born 15 September 1994 in São José dos Campos) is a Brazilian judoka.Rafael Macedo ProfileCBJ profile page 32
Career He moved to Porto Alegre in 2013 and started training at Sogipa, alongside some of the best judokas in the country.Guia do Time Brasil Jogos Olimpicos 2020
In 2014, he won the gold medal at the World Judo Juniors Championships.Rafael Macedo conquista o primeiro ouro brasileiro no Mundial Júnior
At the 2017 Pan American Judo Championships Macedo won a bronze medal in Middleweight (90 kg) category.Brasil encerra Pan-Americano de judô no Panamá com 12 medalhas no individual
At the 2019 Judo Grand Slam Ekaterinburg (Grand Slam is the tournament that gives the most points in the judo rankings after the Olympics, the World Championships and the World Masters), Macedo obtained the bronze medal.Rafael Macedo perde disputa de bronze e fica em 5º no GS de Paris
At the 2019 Pan American Judo Championships, Macedo won a silver medal in the Middleweight (90 kg) category, and a gold medal at the Mixed team.Brasil conquista 15 medalhas no Pan de Judô
At the 2019 World Judo Championships, Macedo won the first fight but was eliminated in the 2nd round. Representing Brazil in the mixed team, he obtained a bronze medal.Brasileiros se despedem na terceira rodada, mas 'brasileira de Portugal' fica com a prataEquipe mista conquista o bronze e Brasil sai de Tóquio com três terceiros lugares no Mundial
At the 2020 Pan American Judo Championships, Macedo won a silver medal in the Middleweight (90 kg) category, and a gold medal at the Mixed team.Brasil fecha o Pan de Guadalajara com 14 medalhas individuais e o título por equipes
Macedo represented Brazil at the 2020 Summer Olympics.
At the 2021 Pan American Judo Championships, Macedo won a silver medal in the Middleweight (90 kg) category.Rafael Silva vence David Moura e leva o ouro no Pan de judô
Ranking 18th in the world, he participated in the 2021 World Judo Championships, where he won two fights and was eliminated in the round of 16 by Mongolian Gantulgyn Altanbagana.Maria Portela fica em sétimo e vê evolução emocional para Tóquio In the mixed team competition, Macedo won a bronze representing Brazil.Brasil bate a Rússia e é bronze por equipes mistas no Mundial de Judô
At the 2022 Judo Grand Slam Antalya, Macedo obtained the bronze medal.Rafael Macedo perde disputa de bronze e fica em 5º no GS de Paris
At the 2022 World Judo Championships held in Tashkent, Macedo debuted with victory, but was eliminated by Olympic champion Lasha Bekauri in the round of 16.Marcelo Gomes dá Ippon em vice-campeão olímpico, mas é 7º no Mundial
At the 2022 Judo World Masters (second most important competition on the judo circuit, after the World Championship), Macedo won the bronze medal.Mayra Aguiar e Rafael Macedo são bronze no World Masters de Judô
Ranking 11th in the world rankings in the 90 kg judo category, Macedo competed in the 2023 World Judo Championships in Doha, Qatar. He won two fights, one of them against Krisztián Tóth, a Hungarian bronze medalist at the Olympics, but was eliminated in the round of 16 by Russian Mansur Lorsanov.Rafael Macedo vence medalhista olímpico, mas perde para russo
At the 2023 Pan American-Oceania Judo Championships held in Calgary, Canada, he won three fights by ippon and won, for the first time, the gold medal in the continental competition after obtaining silver in three previous finals.Rafael Macedo celebra ouro inédito no Pan-Americano
At the 2023 Pan American Games, Macedo reached the final against Cuban Ivan Felipe Silva Morales and even forced two punishments on his opponent. Macedo was better in the fight, but, in an attempt to enter, he placed his head on the ground in a movement interpreted by the referee as irregular (hansoku-make, which is using the head as a defense of an entrance) and was disqualified, obtaining the silver medal.Rafael Macedo conquista medalha de prata nos Jogos Pan-Americanos. É a terceira medalha da Sogipa no eventoPan 2023: Samanta Soares é ouro, e Brasil já tem melhor campanha da história no judô He also obtained silver in the Brazilian mixed team.Baby batalha, mas Brasil perde para Cuba e fica com a prata nas equipes mistas do judô nos Jogos Pan-Americanos 2023
At the 2024 Pan American-Oceania Judo Championships, he won a bronze medal.Beatriz Souza e Guilherme Schimidt são ouro no Pan-Americano de Judô
At the 2024 World Judo Championships, Macedo reached the round of 16 of the competition for the fourth time in a row, where he was eliminated by the Japanese Goki Tajima, who ended up being the tournament champion.Rafael Macedo se despede do Mundial nas oitavas de final
At the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, Macedo reached the fight to compete for the bronze medal. In the bout, he suffered three shido (penalties). The referee's decision to give a third shido, which disqualified him as per judo rules, has been subject to criticism in his home country. Macedo finished in 5th place in the men's 90 kg event.Judoca Rafael Macedo chega até a disputa do bronze, mas comete infração decisiva A few days later, the Brazilian team won one of the two bronze medals in the mixed team event, thus earning Macedo his first olympic medal.‘Me dediquei muito pela medalha’, diz judoca Rafael Macedo após bronze nas Olimpíadas de Paris
In March 2025, he won the bronze medal at the 2025 Judo Grand Slam Tbilisi.Rafael Macedo beats Dutchman and wins bronze at the Tbilisi Grand Slam
At the 2025 Pan American-Oceania Judo Championships, he won the gold medal, winning his second title in this tournament.Brazil wins seven more podiums at the Pan American Championships and Oceania Judo Championship and guarantees the country's best campaign in the history of the competition
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