Rosângela da Silva Conceição, known as Zanza, is a Brazilian former competitor in freestyle wrestling, judo, grappling and Brazilian jiu-jitsu, born on 7 August 1973 in São Leopoldo. She took up judo young, then trained Brazilian jiu-jitsu with Ricardo Murgel, and in 1998 she competed in the first women's division of the CBJJ World Jiu Jitsu Championship, becoming alongside Thaís Ramos one of the first women's world champions. She won world titles in 1998, 2003 and 2005 and the Brazilian national championship in 1999. In wrestling she won bronze at the 2007 Pan American Games and became the first Brazilian woman to compete in Olympic wrestling, at the 2008 Games. She retired in 2013 and moved to Dubai to teach jiu-jitsu in the United Arab Emirates grappling programme.
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