Bárbara Timo, back at -70 kg, Rodrigo Lopes, moving up to -66 kg, and Rochele Nunes, who remains at +78 kg, are the face of Benfica's Olympic judo project, the club with which they renewed their contract.
The two Olympians, who competed in Tokyo2020 and Paris2024, and Rodrigo Lopes, who will discuss a new cycle of preparation and qualification for the Los Angeles'2028 Olympic Games, continue to be part of this broad group. "We have two athletes transitioning weight category: Bárbara Timo, who in the last cycle competed in the -63 kg, will now compete in the -70 kg, a category where in 2019 she became world runner-up; and Rodrigo Lopes, who had previously competed in the -60 kg category, he now competes in the -66 kg category. On the part of the judokas, Bárbara Timo recalled that, as a Benfica judoka, she represented Portugal in the 2020 and 2024 Games, and that on this "path", she managed to win medals in the 2019 World Cup, runner-up in -70 kg, and in 2022 , bronze at -63 kg. The Luz judoka team, now under the coordination of Telma, includes, in addition to these three judokas, Nathalia Brígida and Djamila Silva (-52 kg), who were at the Paris 2024 Games, for Cape Verde, Evenilde Mendes and Jimena Esparza ( -57 kg), André Paiva da Silva (-60 kg), Jorge Mubemba and Pedro Pinheiro (-66 kg), Thelmo Gomes, Ricardo Lopes and Facundo De Lucia (-73 kg), Rodrigo Pires and Ricardo Ferro (-81 kg ), Ailton Cardoso (-100 kg), Carlos Rodrigues, Bruno Tavares and José Pacheco (+100 kg).
Rochele Nunes continues on the red-black team and in the project for Los Angeles2028, although the judoka is now taking a competitive break, due to her pregnancy.
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