Gabriel Falcão

Gabriel Falcão
Personal information
Full nameGabriel Falcão Lira
Born (2003-07-05) 5 July 2003
Cachoeiras de Macacu, Rio de Janeiro
OccupationJudoka
Height1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)[1]
Sport
CountryBrazil
SportJudo
‍–‍73 kg
Achievements and titles
R32 (2025)
1st place, gold medalist(s) (2025)
Medal record
Men's judo
Representing  Brazil
Pan American Games
Gold medal – first place2023 Santiago‍–‍73 kg
Silver medal – second place2023 SantiagoMixed team
Pan American Championships
Gold medal – first place2025 Santiago‍–‍81 kg
IJF Grand Prix
Silver medal – second place2024 Zagreb‍–‍81 kg
Bronze medal – third place2025 Lima‍–‍81 kg
Junior Pan American Games
Gold medal – first place2021 Cali‍–‍73 kg
Gold medal – first place2021 CaliMixed team
Pan American Junior Championships
Gold medal – first place2021 Cali‍–‍73 kg
Gold medal – first place2022 Lima‍–‍73 kg
Gold medal – first place2023 Calgary‍–‍73 kg
Profile at external databases
IJF50471
JudoInside.com96439
Updated on 13 October 2025

Gabriel Falcão Lira (born 5 July 2003 in Cachoeiras de Macacu) is a Brazilian judoka.[2]

Falcão has practiced judo since he was 3 years old. In 2016 he became an athlete at Instituto Reação, in Rio de Janeiro.[3]

At the 2021 Junior Pan American Games held in Cali, Colombia, Falcão won a gold medal in the ‍–‍73 kg category.[4]

At the 2023 Pan American Games, Falcão won his biggest title, obtaining the gold medal in the ‍–‍73 kg category.[5] He also obtained a silver medal for participating in the mixed team modality.[6]

He reached his first medal contest on the senior World Circuit at the 2024 Judo Grand Prix Zagreb, where he won the silver medal.[7]

At the 2025 Pan American-Oceania Judo Championships, he won the gold medal, his first title in this tournament.[8]

References

  1. ↑ CBJ profile page 30
  2. ↑ Guia Oficial do Judô Brasileiro Mundial 2025
  3. ↑ O Reação para mim é uma equipe forte em todos os sentidos
  4. ↑ Judocas Aléxia Nascimento e Gabriel Falcão são campeões
  5. ↑ "Pan 2023: Falcão e Schimidt dão mais dois ouros ao Brasil no judô" (in Portuguese). Globoesporte. Retrieved 13 November 2023.
  6. ↑ Baby batalha, mas Brasil perde para Cuba e fica com a prata nas equipes mistas do judô nos Jogos Pan-Americanos 2023
  7. ↑ Gabriel Falcão is silver and Nauana Silva is bronze at the Zagreb Grand Prix
  8. ↑ Brazil wins seven more podiums at the Pan American and Oceania Judo Championships and guarantees the country's best campaign in the history of the competition
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