Ezekiel Dutra Paraguasu ( port. Ezequiel Dutra Paraguaçu ; born November 4, 1963 ) - Brazilian judoka , a representative of the medium weight category. He played for the Brazilian national judo team in the second half of the 1980s and the first half of the 1990s. Participant of two summer Olympic games, Pan American champion, winner of the World Cup, winner and prize winner of many tournaments of national and international importance.
| Ezekiel Paraguasu | |
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| Citizenship |  Brazil |
| Date of Birth | November 4, 1963 (55 years) |
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| Growth | 180 cm |
| Weight category | Welterweight (up to 78 kg) |
Biography
Born on November 4, 1963. He practiced judo in the martial arts club, located in Flamengo , one of the historic districts of Rio de Janeiro .
He achieved the first serious success at the international level in the 1986 season, when he joined the Brazilian national team and attended the US Open Championships in Cororado Springs, from where he brought the silver dignity prize won in the welterweight class. Thanks to a series of successful performances, he won the right to defend the honor of the country at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul - won the first two fights here, after which he was defeated by German Torsten Brehota at the quarter-finals stage. In the consolation meeting for the third place was given to Hungarian Zsolt Zholdosh.
In 1990, Paraguasu won the Pan American Championship in Caracas and won the bronze medal at the World Cup in Leonding. A year later, at the world cup stage in the same Leonding won the silver medal. A year later, he added silver from the Pan American Championship in Ontario, bronze from the Czech Republic Cup and the international A-class tournament in Budapest, while this time he won the World Cup in Leonding. Being among the leaders of the judo team of Brazil, he successfully passed the selection for the Olympic Games of 1992 in Barcelona - he won his starting bout, but at the 1/8 final stage he lost to Korean Kim Bönju and thereby lost all chances of getting into the number of winners.
After the Barcelona Olympics, he remained in the main team for the Brazilian national team for some time and continued to take part in major international tournaments. So, in 1993, at the World Cup stage in Leonding, he won a silver medal. In 1994, he represented the country in an international tournament in the Italian city of Sassari and won first place in the welterweight.
After completing his career as a professional athlete, he emigrated to Switzerland, where he lived for about 19 years.
He repeatedly met in fights with representatives of the Brazilian jiu-jitsu and often defeated them with the help of the unusual choke of Sode Gurum Jime . Since then, in the BZHZH and mixed martial arts, this technique is called in his honor “the stifling of Ezekiel” [1] [2] .
Notes
- ↑ www.judokai.net
- ↑ BJJ Heroes. Ezequiel Choke (Eng.) . BJJ Heroes: the jiu jitsu encyclopedia (2 December 2015).
Links
- Ezekiel Paraguasu - Olympic statistics on Sports-Reference.com (English)
- Ezekiel Paraguasu - profile on judoinside.com (English)