Maria de Lourdes Mazzoleni Portela (born 14 January 1988) is a Brazilian middleweight

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ka. She won bronze medals at the 2011 and

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, and competed at the

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. At the 2012 Olympics, she lost her first match to Yuri Alvear. At the 2016 Games, she beat Assmaa Niang in the first round, before losing to

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in the second. In 2020, she won the gold medal in the women's 70 kg event at the 2020 Pan American Judo Championships held in Guadalajara, Mexico. The following year, Portela represented Brazil at the

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. She competed in the women's 70 kg event, being controversially eliminated in the second round against Madina Taimazova, in a ten-minute golden score overtime where one hit that would have given Portela a win was dismissed by the referees,Saiba por que a arbitragem não deu wazari para Maria Portela
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