The 26-year-old Brazilian judoka captured gold in women’s judo +78kg at the 2024 Paris Games by a final score of 1-0, defeating Israel’s Raz Hershko, who took home silver.
Souza gave a technical, intelligent, professional performance, one worthy of a position on top of the world.
In the final, Souza was faster to the attack than Hershko and she registered a waza-ari from a well-timed o-soto-gari. Hershko came back with a seoi-otoshi, which was close to scoring but didn’t have enough drive to meet the criteria.
Both continued to look for scores but that first o-soto was enough to carry Souza to the Olympic gold.
She was overcome with emotion, as was her coach, an Olympic champion herself, Sarah Menezes.
Souza’s victory secured the first gold medal of the 2024 Summer Olympics for the Brazil delegation.
Prior to the Paris Olympics, Souza won bronze in this weight class at the 2023 World Championships and the 2023 Pan American Games.
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Everything’s coming up golden for Beatriz Souza.
Souza gave a technical, intelligent, professional performance, one worthy of a position on top of the world.
Both continued to look for scores but that first o-soto was enough to carry Souza to the Olympic gold.