Juliana Borges

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Juliana Borges
BornJuliana Vieira Borges
(1977-07-31) 31 July 1977 (age 46) [1]
Goiânia, Brazil
Division Middleweight (BJJ)
-69 kg (152.1 lb)
Style
Team
Rank
Medal record
Representing Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil
Submission Grappling
ADCC World Championship
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2005 Long Beach, USA +60 kg
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2005 Long Beach, USA Absolute
Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu
World Championship
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2009 Long Beach, USA − 64 kg
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2001 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil − 69 kg
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2000 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil − 69 kg
Freestyle Wrestling
Pan American Championships
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2006 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil − 68 kg
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2005 Guatemala City − 68 kg
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2004 Guatemala City − 68 kg

Juliana Vieira Borges is a Brazilian former freestyle wrestler, submission grappler, Judoka and Brazilian jiu-jitsu (BJJ) black belt practitioner. [lower-alpha 1]

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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]

Biography

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. [lower-alpha 3] [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 [lower-alpha 4] 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]

Competitive summary

Submission Grappling and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu

Main Achievements (black belt level): [1]

Main Achievements (colored belt level): [1]

Freestyle Wrestling

Main Achievements: [1]

Judo

Main Achievements: [1]

Instructor lineage

Carlos Gracie > Carlson Gracie > Andre Pederneiras > Fernando Marques (Boi) > Juliana Borges [1]

Notes

  1. 1 2 under Fernando Boi [1]
  2. ↑ under Sebastião Borges [1]
  3. ↑ purple/brown and black division [7]
  4. ↑ female (no-gi and gi) and male (no-gi)
  5. ↑ Weight and absolute [11]

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