Rogério Sampaio

Rogério Sampaio Cardoso ( born September 12, 1967 in Santos) is a Brazilian judoka, who at the Summer Olympic Games in Barcelona the gold medal in judo in the weight class semi- lightweight won the 1992 (up to 65 kg ).

Sampaio comes from a judo - loving family, he started four years ago with the judo sport. His older brother Ricardo was Olympian in Seoul in 1988, he committed suicide in 1991 from lovesickness.

Also in 1988 had with Aurélio Miguel for the first time a Brazilian won an Olympic gold medal in judo. For Rogério Sampaio this was an incentive to qualify necessarily for the next Olympics, and succeeded him. At the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona Sampaio competed in the same weight class as his brother four years earlier. Unlike his brother Rogério different but not in the first fight out, but reached the semi-finals after three wins, where he defeated the German Udo Quellmalz by an admonition ( chui ). In the final he beat the Hungary József Čák half a point ( Waza -ari ). He dedicated his gold medal to his brother.

In the Judo World Championships 1993 in Hamilton, Canada, Sampaio came at lightweight (up 71 kg ) and won the bronze medal. In the years after Sampaio was mostly injured and could no longer qualify for the major international championships. In 1998, he finished his career.

Sampaio operates a judo school in Santos and acts occasionally in brasilienischen television as a co- commentator for Judo transmissions. In 2001, he supervised the women's team of Brazil at the Universiade.