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Born | Juliana Vieira Borges 31 July 1977 [1] Goiânia, Brazil | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Juliana Vieira Borges is a Brazilian former freestyle wrestler, submission grappler, Judoka and Brazilian jiu-jitsu (BJJ) black belt practitioner. [a]
A champion in wrestling, judo and BJJ (gi and no-gi), competing in all three disciplines for over a decade; Borges became in 2005 the first woman to win double gold at the ADCC Submission Fighting World Championship, [2] the first woman to win the ADCC openweight category and the first Brazilian woman to win the freestyle wrestling Pan American Championship. [1]
Juliana Vieira Borges was born on 31 July 1977, in Goiânia, Brazil. [1] A competitive swimmer from a young age she also started Judo at age 12 under the guidance of her uncle Sebastião Borges and her father, a Judo black-belt. [3]
Between 1995 and 1997, Borges earned multiple state titles and the Brazilian Nationals with the Brazilian National League of Judo. [1] In 1997 she was promoted to Judo black belt. Two years later she won 3 gold medals in the Brazilian National Swimming League. While at University studying odontology she was introduced to Brazilian jiu-jitsu (BJJ) by a fellow judoka as a way to improve her judo groundwork (ne-waza), on her return home she continued training BJJ under Fernando Boi. [1]
She received all her belts from Boi starting with blue, she became world champion in 2000, then a second time the following year in 2001 while at purple belt, competing in the purple/brown and black division [4] after defeating Renata Pimentel in the final. [5]
Under Boi's training, Borges started freestyle wrestling, in 2002 she joined a workgroup led by Alejo Morales. In 2003 she became the first Brazilian woman to win the freestyle wrestling Pan American Championship. [6] A year later she won bronze at the 2004 IBJJF World Championship in the middleweight division. [c] [7] She was promoted to black belt by Boi in 2004. [1]
In 2005 she joined ATT (American Top Team) moving to the U.S. to train under Ricardo Liborio as well as Jason Kelly a wrestling coach. Borges was invited to compete at ADCC Submission Fighting World Championship in the very first female division in May 2005; [8] after defeating Hannette Staack, [3] Megumi Yabushita [9] and Stacy Cartwright she won the +60 kg division, [10] she then defeated Kizma Button, Alessandra Vieira and Tara LaTosa to win the first Women Absolute ( openweight). [11] Two weeks after ADCC she competed in a mixed gender [d] NAGA (Expert division) championship, winning gold. In 2009 she won bronze at the IBJJF World Championship after losing to Kyra Gracie in the semi-final. [1]
Main Achievements (black belt level): [1]
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Carlos Gracie > Carlson Gracie > Andre Pederneiras > Fernando Marques (Boi) > Juliana Borges [1]