Gabriel Falcão

Gabriel Falcão
Personal information
Full nameGabriel Falcão Lira
Born (2003-07-05) 5 July 2003
Cachoeiras de Macacu, Rio de Janeiro
OccupationJudoka
Height1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)[1]
Sport
CountryBrazil
SportJudo
Weight class‍–‍73 kg
Achievements and titles
World Champ.R32 (2025)
Pan American Champ. (2025)
Medal record
Men's judo
Representing  Brazil
Pan American Games
2023 Santiago ‍–‍73 kg
2023 Santiago Mixed team
Pan American Championships
2025 Santiago ‍–‍81 kg
IJF Grand Prix
2024 Zagreb ‍–‍81 kg
Junior Pan American Games
2021 Cali ‍–‍73 kg
2021 Cali Mixed team
Pan American Junior Championships
2021 Cali ‍–‍73 kg
2022 Lima ‍–‍73 kg
2023 Calgary ‍–‍73 kg
Profile at external databases
IJF50471
JudoInside.com96439
Updated on 16 June 2025

Gabriel Falcão Lira (born 5 July 2003 in Cachoeiras de Macacu) is a Brazilian judoka. [2]

Falcão has practiced judo since he was 3 years old. In 2016 he became an athlete at Instituto Reação, in Rio de Janeiro.[3]

At the 2021 Junior Pan American Games held in Cali, Colombia, Falcão won a gold medal in the ‍–‍73 kg category.[4]

At the 2023 Pan American Games, Falcão won his biggest title, obtaining the gold medal in the ‍–‍73 kg category.[5] He also obtained a silver medal for participating in the mixed team modality.[6]

He reached his first medal contest on the senior World Circuit at the 2024 Judo Grand Prix Zagreb, where he won the silver medal. [7]

At the 2025 Pan American-Oceania Judo Championships, he won the gold medal, his first title in this tournament.[8]

References

  1. ^ CBJ profile page 30
  2. ^ Guia Oficial do Judô Brasileiro Mundial 2025
  3. ^ O Reação para mim é uma equipe forte em todos os sentidos
  4. ^ Judocas Aléxia Nascimento e Gabriel Falcão são campeões
  5. ^ "Pan 2023: Falcão e Schimidt dão mais dois ouros ao Brasil no judô" (in Portuguese). Globoesporte. Retrieved 13 November 2023.
  6. ^ Baby batalha, mas Brasil perde para Cuba e fica com a prata nas equipes mistas do judô nos Jogos Pan-Americanos 2023
  7. ^ Gabriel Falcão is silver and Nauana Silva is bronze at the Zagreb Grand Prix
  8. ^ Brazil wins seven more podiums at the Pan American and Oceania Judo Championships and guarantees the country's best campaign in the history of the competition