CHIBANA Gabriela

Date of Birth: 7 Aug 1993

Age: 28

Gender: Female

Place of birth: SAO PAULO

Birth Country:

Brazil

Place of residence : SAO PAULO

Residence Country:

Brazil

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Judo	Women -48 kg	9

Schedule

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
	Nippon Budokan Judo Mat 1	Women -48 kg Elimination Round of 32 #1 BRA CHIBANA GCHIBANA Gabriela 10 IPP MAW BONFACE HBONFACE Harriet 0	Finished
Followed by	Nippon Budokan Judo Mat 1	Women -48 kg Elimination Round of 16 #13 KOS KRASNIQI DKRASNIQI Distria 10 IPP BRA CHIBANA GCHIBANA Gabriela 0s1	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

World Championships

Year	Location	-48 kg
2021	Budapest, HUN	33
2018	Baku, AZE	17

Pan American Championships

Year	Location	-48 kg
2021	Guadalajara, MEX	2

World Masters

Year	Location	-48 kg
2019	Qingdao, CHN	17

Grand Slam - Tally of rank achieved per season and event since 2017

Year	Event	1st	2nd	3rd	5th	7th	9th	16th	17th	30th-33rd
2021	-48 kg	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	3x	-
2020	-48 kg	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1x
2019	-48 kg	-	1x	-	1x	-	2x	-	1x	-
2018	-48 kg	-	-	-	-	-	1x	-	-	-
2017	-48 kg	-	-	-	-	-	1x	-	-	-

Grand Prix - Tally of rank achieved per season and event since 2017

Year	Event	1st	2nd	3rd	5th	7th	8th	9th	10th	15th-33rd
2020	-48 kg	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1x
2019	-48 kg	-	-	-	-	-	-	2x	-	-
2018	-48 kg	-	-	-	1x	-	-	2x	-	-
2017	-48 kg	1x	-	-	-	1x	-	1x	-	-

World Cup - Tally of rank achieved per season and event since 2017

Year	Event	1st	2nd	3rd	4rd	5th	7th	8th	9th	10th	15th-33rd
2021	-48 kg	-	1x	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2020	-48 kg	-	-	1x	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2019	-48 kg	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2x	-	-
2018	-48 kg	1x	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2017	-48 kg	1x	-	1x	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Grand Slam, Grand Prix & World Cup - Ten best performances since 2017

Rank	Year	Event	Competition	Location
1	2018	-48 kg	World Cup	Lima, PER
1	2017	-48 kg	World Cup	Santiago, CHI
1	2017	-48 kg	Grand Prix	Cancun, MEX
2	2021	-48 kg	World Cup	Guadalajara, MEX
2	2019	-48 kg	Grand Slam	Brasilia, BRA
3	2020	-48 kg	World Cup	Bratislava, SVK
3	2017	-48 kg	World Cup	Lima, PER
5	2019	-48 kg	Grand Slam	Baku, AZE
5	2018	-48 kg	Grand Prix	Hohhot, CHN
7	2017	-48 kg	Grand Prix	Zagreb, CRO

Occupation:

Armed Forces Athlete, Nurse

Nursing - Sao Camilo University Centre, Sao Paulo, BRA

Languages spoken:

Esporte Clube Pinheiros [Sao Paulo, BRA]

Mario Tsutsui [national]; Leandro Guilheiro [club], BRA; Tiago Camilo [club], BRA

Sporting relatives:

Her cousin Charles Chibana is also a judoka. He represented Brazil at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro and the 2020 Grand Prix event in Oberwart, Austria. Her other cousin Mike Chibana also competed in judo at junior international level and represented Brazil at the 2011 World Junior Championships in Cape Town, South Africa. (SportsDeskOnline, 20 Jun 2021; ecp.org.br, 20 Sep 2018; sportv.globo.com, 09 Jun 2012)

She took up judo at age four and began practising at a high performance level at the Associacao Vila Carrao gym in Sao Paulo, Brazil. (ecp.org.br, 18 Sep 2018)

She began focusing on competitive judo after competing at the world junior championships. "I believe that after my first world juniors, which I thought was the biggest event in my life, I saw judo differently, more competitively. From that moment I decided to invest everything in it, to get a medal and represent my country." (ecp.org.br, 18 Sep 2018)

Philosophy:

"A champion is not the one who has never fallen, but the one who knew to stand up and move on." (ecp.org.br, 10 Jun 2017)

General Interest

Preferred techniques
Uchi-mata (judobase.ijf.org, 01 Jan 2020)

General
JUDO FAMILY
Much of her family has taken part in judo. Her cousins Charles and Mike have also represented Brazil and she has a judo mat in her house, which is regularly used at family gatherings. "Most of my family have lived the judoka's life and, like it or not, it is a common language in my family. Everyone, from my seven-year-old cousin to the 30-years-olds, are able to talk about judo and know what it is. It is a family business." (ecp.org.br, 20 Sep 2018; hojeemdia.com.br, 12 Mar 2014)

SPORT AND STUDY
She has studied nursing at the Sao Camilo University Centre in Sao Paulo, Brazil. She says she wanted to study a course that would take her away from sport. "I wanted to get out of the sporting environment a little, I wanted to meet different people, talk to people from other backgrounds and evolve in other ways, not being stuck in the same environment forever. I started taking nursing at random and ended up enjoying it, the coolest thing about the profession is taking care of others." (ecp.org.br, 20 Sep 2018)

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Legend

:: Gold Medal Event
:: Silver Medal Event
:: Bronze Medal Event
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