Biography

KADIMA known as Trovoada, an Angolan athlete, born on August 22, 1989, Greco-Roman, Freestyle and Beach Wrestling, started practicing Wrestling in 2002  aged of 13 in the Associaco Desportiva do Golfe, having changed in 2009 for the super União club trained by Pedro Felisberto, winning the national champion medal in 2010 since then until the present date he is 8 times national champion in GR and 9 times in FS, having also been champion of the 86kg FS for the African championship central in 2017, the following year he participated in the African championship losing in the semifinals to the Nigerian Ogiomor ekerekeme and defeated in the final 3-5 the Liberian Augustin P. Flomo, in the same year 2018 he participated in the world championship in the 79kg in FS and be Ranked 26th. and having been the first athlete from Angola to participate in a World Championship. Founder of Clube Trovoada Team in Luanda since 2020, with the club coached by him. in 2021 he participated in the level II coaching course in south africa in Pretoria. In 2023, he beat the Moroccan Sofia Padhino in the final 3-5 and in the same year he headed to the Serbian World Cup in Belgrade, which would be the first qualifying phase for the Paris Olympic Games, having lost in the first rounds in both styles. In 2024 he participated in the African championship in Alexandria Egypt, having won his third medal in the African championships and this being the first medal in his Greco-Roman style gallery. Unfortunately, he contracted an injury and made it difficult for him to participate in the Africa and Oceania Olympic qualification tournament in good physical condition. he is the most decorated athlete in the country Angola for his achievements in competitions and in his philanthropic life.