Caroline de Lazzer
Caroline De Lazzer Cardoso · Caxias do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
From Caxias do Sul, in southern Brazil, she won middleweight at the 2006 Worlds while still a brown belt, was runner-up in 2010 and wrestled for Brazil at the 2007 Pan American Games.
- middleweight finals at Worlds, including gold in 2006
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Who is Caroline de Lazzer
Caroline de Lazzer won middleweight at the 2006 Worlds, in Rio de Janeiro, in the division that combined brown and black belts. She was a brown belt and beat Diana Menezes in the final. Her black belt came after the title, from Zé Mario Sperry and Walter Mattos.
Born on October 28, 1980, in Caxias do Sul, she started Jiu-Jitsu in 2001, in a women-only class set up by friends. At the same time she joined Brazil’s national wrestling team and competed at the Pan American Games in Rio in 2007.
In 2009 she moved to the United Arab Emirates to teach Jiu-Jitsu. Now a black belt, she took medium-heavyweight bronze at that year’s Worlds and, in 2010, reached the middleweight final, decided by the referees in favor of American Hillary Williams.
Today she is a fourth-degree black belt and leads De Lazzer Team.
Recent wins
- 2006Diana MenezesWorlds, final
Losses
- 2010Hillary WilliamsWorlds, final · referee decision
Major titles
2010
- IBJJF Worlds Middleweight, brown and black division Silver
2009
- IBJJF Worlds Medium-heavyweight, brown and black division Bronze
2006
- IBJJF Worlds Middleweight, brown and black division Gold
Before black belt
- IBJJF Worlds 2004, medium-heavyweight, purple, brown and black division Silver
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