Andressa Cintra | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Born | [1] Campo Mourão, Brazil | 4 August 1995
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Other names | Andressa Mezari Cintra | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Division | Middleweight − 69 kg | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Fighting out of | Texas, USA | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Gracie Barra Checkmat | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Rank | 1st deg. BJJ black belt [a] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Occupation | BJJ instructor | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Andressa Cintra a Brazilian jiu-jitsu 1st deg. black belt athlete. [a] A three-time IBJJF World and four-time CBJJ Brazilian Nationals Champion in colored belts; Cintra is a four-time black belt World Champion. Pan American and Brasileiro Champion. Cintra is ranked No. 1 in the middleweight 2022–2023 IBJJF Gi Ranking. [2]
Andressa Cintra was born 4 August 1995, in Campo Mourão, Brazil [1] before her family resettled in Curitiba. She started Brazilian jiu-jitsu at 14 under Joao Guedes and Rodrigo Feijao. [3] In 2013 as a blue belt she won the Brazilian Nationals while attending a Physical Education college. [4] Training under various coaches including Caio Almeida, the co-founder of the Almeida Jiu Jitsu academy and Luiz Guilherme from who she received her purple belt training with Guigo Jiu Jitsu team in São Paulo; [3] she finally joined Checkmat after returning to in Curitiba training under black belt Sebastian Lalli. [1]
Cintra received her brown belt from Lalli and in December 2017 her black belt at the podium after her World Championship win, [3] In 2018 she moved to Houston, Texas, [4] married Lucas Valente of Gracie Barra and joined the team, teaching and training under both Valente and 6th Degree Black Belt Vinicius "Draculino" Magalhães. [1]
In 2019 Cintra won her fist IBJJF World Championship as a black belt. [3] Three years after receiving her black belt she received her 1st degree from Draculino in 2020. [5] Cintra competed in the 2023 World Jiu-Jitsu Championship on June 3 and 4, 2023 winning her fourth consecutive Worlds title at middleweight. [6]
She then competed at the IBJJF No-Gi World Championship 2023, where she won the heavyweight division. [7]
Cintra won a gold medal in the middleweight division of the IBJJF World Championship 2024 on June 1, 2024. [8]
Main Achievements (at black belt): [1]
Main Achievements (at colored Belts): [1]
Carlos Gracie > Carlson Gracie > De La Riva > Carlos Lima > Sebastian Lalli > Andressa Cintra [1]
Andressa Cintra | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Born | [1] Campo Mourão, Brazil | 4 August 1995
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Other names | Andressa Mezari Cintra | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Division | Middleweight − 69 kg | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Fighting out of | Texas, USA | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Team |
Gracie Barra Checkmat | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Rank | 1st deg. BJJ black belt [a] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Occupation | BJJ instructor | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Andressa Cintra a Brazilian jiu-jitsu 1st deg. black belt athlete. [a] A three-time IBJJF World and four-time CBJJ Brazilian Nationals Champion in colored belts; Cintra is a four-time black belt World Champion. Pan American and Brasileiro Champion. Cintra is ranked No. 1 in the middleweight 2022–2023 IBJJF Gi Ranking. [2]
Andressa Cintra was born 4 August 1995, in Campo Mourão, Brazil [1] before her family resettled in Curitiba. She started Brazilian jiu-jitsu at 14 under Joao Guedes and Rodrigo Feijao. [3] In 2013 as a blue belt she won the Brazilian Nationals while attending a Physical Education college. [4] Training under various coaches including Caio Almeida, the co-founder of the Almeida Jiu Jitsu academy and Luiz Guilherme from who she received her purple belt training with Guigo Jiu Jitsu team in São Paulo; [3] she finally joined Checkmat after returning to in Curitiba training under black belt Sebastian Lalli. [1]
Cintra received her brown belt from Lalli and in December 2017 her black belt at the podium after her World Championship win, [3] In 2018 she moved to Houston, Texas, [4] married Lucas Valente of Gracie Barra and joined the team, teaching and training under both Valente and 6th Degree Black Belt Vinicius "Draculino" Magalhães. [1]
In 2019 Cintra won her fist IBJJF World Championship as a black belt. [3] Three years after receiving her black belt she received her 1st degree from Draculino in 2020. [5] Cintra competed in the 2023 World Jiu-Jitsu Championship on June 3 and 4, 2023 winning her fourth consecutive Worlds title at middleweight. [6]
She then competed at the IBJJF No-Gi World Championship 2023, where she won the heavyweight division. [7]
Cintra won a gold medal in the middleweight division of the IBJJF World Championship 2024 on June 1, 2024. [8]
Main Achievements (at black belt): [1]
Main Achievements (at colored Belts): [1]
Carlos Gracie > Carlson Gracie > De La Riva > Carlos Lima > Sebastian Lalli > Andressa Cintra [1]