Daniel Cargnin (judoka)

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Daniel Cargnin
Daniel Cargnin.jpg
Cargnin at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Personal information
Full nameDaniel Borges Cargnin
NationalityFlag of Brazil.svg  Brazil
Born (1997-12-20) 20 December 1997 (age 27)
Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Occupation Judoka
Height168 cm (5 ft 6 in) [1]
Sport
CountryFlag of Brazil.svg  Brazil
Sport Judo
Weight class 66 kg, 73 kg
Achievements and titles
Olympic Games Bronze medal.svg (2020)
World Champ. Silver medal world centered-2.svg (2025)
Pan American Champ. Gold medal america.svg (2019, 2020, 2023)
Medal record
Men's judo
Representing Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil
Olympic Games
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2020 Tokyo 66 kg
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2024 Paris Mixed team
World Championships
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2025 Budapest 73 kg
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2022 Tashkent 73 kg
Pan American Games
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2019 Lima 66 kg
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2023 Santiago 73 kg
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2023 Santiago Mixed team
Pan American Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2019 Lima 66 kg
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2020 Guadalajara 66 kg
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2023 Calgary 73 kg
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2023 Calgary Mixed team
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2017 Panama City 66 kg
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2018 San José 66 kg
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2024 Rio de Janeiro 73 kg
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2025 Santiago 73 kg
World Masters
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2022 Jerusalem 73 kg
IJF Grand Slam
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2019 Brasilia 66 kg
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2023 Paris 73 kg
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2023 Tel Aviv 73 kg
IJF Grand Prix
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2018 Tbilisi 66 kg
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2020 Tel Aviv 66 kg
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2022 Zagreb 73 kg
World Juniors Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2017 Zagreb 66 kg
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2015 Abu Dhabi 66 kg
Pan American Junior Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2017 Cancún 66 kg
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2016 Cordoba 66 kg
Pan American Cadet Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2014 San Salvador 60 kg
Profile at external databases
IJF 17835
JudoInside.com 55793
Updated on 16 June 2025

Daniel Borges Cargnin (born 20 December 1997 in Porto Alegre) is a Brazilian judoka. He won the silver medal at the 2025 World Championships, and bronze medal at the 2020 Olympic Games and the 2022 World Championships, in addition to being three-time Pan American Judo champion. [2] [3] [4] [1]

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Career

Judo entered Cargnin's life very early, at the age of six. Encouraged by a school friend, the Porto Alegre native started playing the sport at an academy in Canoas, in the metropolitan region of Porto Alegre. He began to stand out and, at the age of 13, he received an invitation from coach Antônio Carlos Pereira, known as Kiko, to join the Sogipa team. However, until his adolescence, the gaucho still shared his attention with football — he was a right-back at Grêmio's schools. Until one day his mother, Ana Rita, advised her son to dedicate himself to just one of the activities. That was when Daniel chose judo and, since then, his evolution has been constant. [5]

Cargin at the 2018 World Judo Championships 2018 World Judo Championships 129.jpg
Cargin at the 2018 World Judo Championships

Since 2015, Daniel has participated in competitions for both the junior and senior Brazilian teams. But it was in 2017, after winning the 2017 World Judo Juniors Championships in Zagreb and becoming champion of the Olympic Trials, that Cargnin established himself in the main team, at the age of 20. [6]

In Brazil, he was the main name in the welterweight division (-66kg): 2019 Judo Grand Slam Brasilia champion, two-time Pan American champion (2019 and 2020) and runner-up at the 2019 Pan American Games in Lima. [7] [8]

Cargin at the 2020 Judo Grand Slam Dusseldorf. Daniel Cargnin no Grand Slam (2020).jpg
Cargin at the 2020 Judo Grand Slam Düsseldorf.

Cargnin won a bronze medal at the 2020 Summer Olympics. [9] [10] On June 16, 2021, Cargnin was called up by the Brazilian Judo Confederation (CBJ) for his first Olympics: the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, in Japan. The gaucho fought on July 25, the second day of the competition in Tokyo, and won the bronze medal. Daniel started the competition by beating the Egyptian Mohamed Abdelmawgoud, by ippon, on the golden score. Then, in the round of 16, he beat Moldovan Denis Vieru with a wazari also on the golden score. In the quarterfinals, he defeated the Italian Manuel Lombardo, world runner-up and leader of the ranking, with a wazari. In the semi-final, he lost by ippon to Japanese Hifumi Abe, two-time world champion. And, in the bronze medal match, he beat Israeli Baruch Shmailov with a wazari. [11]

In January 2022, the judoka from Porto Alegre switched categories: he started to represent Brazil in the lightweight category (up to 73kg). [12]

At the 2022 World Judo Championships held in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, he won a bronze medal defeating world champion Manuel Lombardo. [13]

At the 2022 Judo World Masters (second most important competition on the judo circuit, after the World Championship), Cargnin won the gold medal. The last time Brazil won gold at the Masters was 10 years ago, with Rafael Silva. [14]

Cargnin once again stood out in the Grand Slams (the tournament that gives the most points in the judo rankings after the Olympics, the World Championships and the World Masters) in 2023. He won a silver at the 2023 Judo Grand Slam Paris and a bronze at the 2023 Judo Grand Slam Tel Aviv. [15] [16]

In 2023, Cargnin reached his third individual title at the Pan American Championship and also won a gold medal in the Brazil's mixed team, and at the Pan American Games, he reached the final, but due to a physical injury, he had to abandon the final, leaving the gold to his fellow compatriot Gabriel Falcão, ensuring, however, a place for the 2024 Olympic Games. [17] [18] He also obtained a silver medal for participating in the mixed team modality. [19] [20]

At the 2024 Pan American-Oceania Judo Championships, held in Rio de Janeiro, Cargnin reached the final, where, in a controversial fight, where the referee did not give several blows applied by the Brazilian to the Canadian Arthur Margelidon, and also stopped applying shidos to the Canadian, the Brazilian ended up with silver. [21] [22]

At the 2024 Judo World Championships, Cargnin reached the bronze medal match, but finished in 5th place in the competition. [23]

At the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, he lost in his debut to Kosovar Akil Gjakova. [24] In the team competition, he lost two fights but ended up winning the bronze medal along with the rest of the Brazilian team. [25]

At the 2025 Pan American-Oceania Judo Championships, held in Santiago, he won a silver medal. [26]

At the 2025 World Judo Championships, Cargnin won 5 consecutive fights and reached the final for the first time in his career, defeating judokas such as European champion Akil Gjakova and Japanese Tatsuki Ishihara along the way. In the final, against Frenchman Joan-Benjamin Gaba, Olympic runner-up, he took the fight to the golden score, where he started bleeding from the head and ended up being defeated, finishing with the silver medal, in his best campaign in world championships. [27] [28] [29]

References

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  4. "COB Profile". Archived from the original on 23 September 2022. Retrieved 13 November 2023.
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  7. "Com ouro de Rafaela Silva, judô do Brasil conquista mais três medalhas no Pan de Lima". GZH. 9 August 2019.
  8. Chacon, Paulo (6 October 2019). "Brasil conquista dois ouros no primeiro dia do Grand Slam". Olimpíada Todo Dia.
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  10. "Judo Results Book" (PDF). Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 August 2021. Retrieved 1 August 2021.
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  12. "Daniel Cargnin vence mongol campeão mundial e leva bronze no Grand Slam de Judô de Tel Aviv". Terra.
  13. Brasil, Comitê Olímpico do. "Rafaela Silva conquista o bicampeonato do Mundial de Judô e Da..." Comitê Olímpico do Brasil.
  14. "Após 10 anos, Brasil volta a ser ouro no Masters de Judô com Cargnin". Agência Brasil. 21 December 2022.
  15. Cunha, Gustavo. "Daniel Cargnin conquista a medalha de prata no Grand Slam de Paris". Rede do Esporte.
  16. Gentile, Gabriel (17 February 2023). "Cargnin bate campeão mundial e é bronze no Grand Slam de Tel Aviv". Olimpíada Todo Dia.
  17. "Daniel Cargnin desbanca canadense em casa para conquistar primeiro ouro pan-americano no 73kg". CBJ | Confederação Brasileira de Judô.
  18. "Pan 2023: Falcão e Schimidt dão mais dois ouros ao Brasil no judô". ge. 29 October 2023.
  19. Baby batalha, mas Brasil perde para Cuba e fica com a prata nas equipes mistas do judô nos Jogos Pan-Americanos 2023
  20. "Brasil é campeão por equipes mistas no Pan-Americano e Oceania de Judô". CBJ | Confederação Brasileira de Judô.
  21. "Brasil domina o pódio e conquista quatro ouros no primeiro dia do Campeonato Pan-Americano e Oceania de Judô 2024". Olympics.com (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 16 June 2025.
  22. "Michel Augusto é ouro no Pan-Americano de Judô e fica mais perto da vaga em Paris". ge. 26 April 2024.
  23. "Daniel Cargnin chega na luta do bronze, mas termina em quinto no Mundial de Judô Abu Dhabi 2024". Olympics.com (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 16 June 2025.
  24. "Bronze em Tóquio, Daniel Cargnin perde na estreia nas Olímpiadas de Paris". ge. 29 July 2024.
  25. "Quais brasileiros ganham medalha de bronze no judô por equipes nas Olimpíadas?". ESPN.com. 3 August 2024.
  26. Softwares, isDesign. "Daniel Cargnin é prata do Campeonato Pan-Americano e da Oceania | Notícias". Sogipa.
  27. Gentile, Gabriel (15 June 2025). "Daniel Cargnin vence japonês e algoz de Paris no Mundial". Olimpíada Todo Dia.
  28. "Mundial de Judô: Daniel Cargnin garante vaga na final". GZH. 15 June 2025.
  29. Gentile, Gabriel (15 June 2025). "Daniel Cargnin volta a lutar bem e leva prata no Mundial". Olimpíada Todo Dia.

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