Silvana Harumi Nagai - 4th Judo Dan

Education

- Master's Degree in High Performance Sports Training - University of Porto / Portugal - Revalidated by the University of São Paulo (USP)

- Specialization in Judo - Brazilian Association of Coaches and Brazilian Olympic Committee

- Postgraduate studies in Judo - UFRJ and EsPCEx

- Full Degree in Physical Education - UFPE

Silvana Nagai was born in Recife in 1972, a year after her father, Tadao Nagai founding the Nagai Recife Association, so Silvana learned to crawl on tatami mats from the academy and maybe because of that, until today Judo is part of his path that was not so smooth.

Silvana suffered all the difficulties experienced by the judoka of the time and like most of them, her first fight was against prejudice.

The scarcity of girls in Judo, made Silvana, until her 14 years old, almost always fight only with boys. For that reason, even today, when he meets some opponents of the time, today made men, they smile because they tell their children that he has already been beaten a lot.

Slvana, like her brothers, for being an athlete, always had a scholarship in one of the best private schools in Recife, Colégio Boa Viagem. This aroused in her, since her adolescence, the desire to work with young people in need to provide them with the same benefit that Judo provided her.

Silvana won several times the Pernambuco and National champion, a traditional women's championship that took place annually in Salvador / Bahia, where she experienced the emotion of winning an athlete who at the time idolized, the judoka Patricia Bevilacqua, who had just represented the Brazil at the Olympics.

Silvana was from a delicate time of female Judo, still very incipient and without any kind of incentive. The only opportunity to exchange experience was in women's training in Santa Cruz, which despite suffering, had its importance for the development of women's Judo in Brazil.

In 1990, Silvana lived another special moment, when she won the title of Brazilian Judo Champion. This was an atypical championship, as there was no one in the family with her. Her father was at another event in São Paulo and even today she says it was one of the greatest emotions she lived, when she heard in the gym that her daughter, Silvana Nagai, had been a Brazilian Judo champion.

One of the biggest annoyances of Silvana Nagai's athlete's career was when history sort of repeated itself, Silvana ranked among the 4 finalists for the Sydnei Olympics, but the dispute never took place, because, as it happened with his father, his category was cut. Despite the frustrated expectation, Judo still reserved the opportunity to represent Brazil in world military championships, where it reached 5th place.

In 2008 she participated in two championships as an athlete and became champion in those that were her last two appearances with judoka, in the National University Championship (CNU) of Judo - Portugal, Porto District Association and in the International Championship of Barcelos - Portugal , Judo Clube Barcelos.

In 2012, allying with the first Brazilian Pan-American Judo champion, Luiz Alberto Gama de Mendonça, Silvana Nagai realized his dream as a teenager and started the Malacacheta Project, in Complexo do Alemão / RJ, where he proudly says that becoming an Olympic champion will be a great pleasure, but it will be no less pleasant to become a champion in any other area of human knowledge.

Even without adequate infrastructure and without having as main focus the high performance Judo, the Malacacheta de Judo Social Project has already revealed a Champion athlete to the country Brazilian Student.

In 2014 and 2015, Silvana Nagai served as a coach for the Rio de Janeiro judo team, under13 and under21, respectively, and in 2018 traveled as head of the under13 delegation in Rio.

In 2019, Silvana composed the CBJ technical team accompanying her athlete, Ryan Conceição, at the European Circuit, in Portugal, when he won the bronze. In the same year, she was invited to compose the Degree Committee of the Judo Federation of the State of Rio de Janeiro and was among the eight Judo teachers in Brazil, selected by the Brazilian Judo Confederation, the Japanese Embassy in Brazil and the Kodokan of Brazil to compose the Brazilian team in a month-long immersion in Japan, to study the system of implementing Judo in Japanese schools and became the first woman to compose this select group.