Edinanci Silva


Edinanci Fernandes da Silva is a judoka from Brazil, who won the gold medal in the half heavyweight division at the Pan American Games. A resident of São Paulo born in Sousa, Paraíba, she represented her country at four consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1996 in Atlanta, Georgia.
Edinanci is born intersex. In the mid-1990s she had surgery, in order to live and compete as a woman.