Name Edinanci Silva Role Olympic athlete | Height 1.75 m | |
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Edinanci Fernandes da Silva (born August 23, 1976 in Sousa, Paraíba) is a judoka from Brazil, who won the gold medal in the half heavyweight division (– 78 kg) at the Pan American Games. A resident of São Paulo, she represented the country at four consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1996 in Atlanta, Georgia.

Edinanci was born intersex. In the mid-1990s she had surgery, in order to live and compete as a woman.

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