Joice Souza da Silva (born 20 July 1983) is a Brazilian
freestyle wrestler
Freestyle wrestling is a style of wrestling originated from Great Britain and the United States. Along with Greco-Roman, it is one of the two styles of wrestling contested in the Olympic Games. American high school and men's college wrestling i ...
.
Career
Joice Silva competed in the
freestyle 55 kg event at the
2012 Summer Olympics and was eliminated by
Valeria Zholobova in the 1/8 finals.
Silva became the first Brazilian gold medalist in wrestling at the
2015 Pan American Games
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Music
* Fifteen (band), a punk rock band
Albums
* ''15'' (Buckcherry album), 2005
* ''15'' (Ani Lorak al ...
in
Toronto
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,
Ontario
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, Canada.
References
External links
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1983 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Rio de Janeiro (city)
Brazilian female sport wrestlers
Olympic wrestlers for Brazil
Wrestlers at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Wrestlers at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Pan American Games gold medalists for Brazil
Pan American Games bronze medalists for Brazil
Pan American Games medalists in wrestling
Wrestlers at the 2011 Pan American Games
Wrestlers at the 2015 Pan American Games
Medalists at the 2011 Pan American Games
Medalists at the 2015 Pan American Games
20th-century Brazilian women
21st-century Brazilian women
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