Denílson Moraes Lourenço (born May 11, 1977 in

Tupã, São Paulo Tupã is a municipality in the state of São Paulo in Brazil. The population is 65,570 (2020 est.) in an area of 628 km². The city is located in the Alta Paulista Region and it is located 530 km (329.32 sq mi) from capital São Paulo. I ...

) is a male

judo 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"). ...

ka from

Brazil Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...

. He won the silver medal in the men's extra-lightweight division (– 48 kg) at the

1999 Pan American Games The 1999 Pan American Games, officially the XIII Pan American Games or the 13th Pan American Games, was a major international multi-sport event that was held from July 23 to August 8, 1999, in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada and surrounding towns and ...

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, Manitoba, Canada. He represented his native country at the

2000 Summer Olympics The 2000 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXVII Olympiad and also known as Sydney 2000 ( Dharug: ''Gadigal 2000''), the Millennium Olympic Games or the Games of the New Millennium, was an international multi-sport event held from ...

in Sydney, Australia.

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* * * * 1977 births Living people Judoka at the 1999 Pan American Games Judoka at the 2000 Summer Olympics Judoka at the 2008 Summer Olympics Olympic judoka of Brazil Brazilian male judoka Pan American Games silver medalists for Brazil Pan American Games medalists in judo Medalists at the 1999 Pan American Games 21st-century Brazilian people 20th-century Brazilian people People from Tupã, São Paulo {{Brazil-judo-bio-stub