| Headercolor: | 2024 Olympic Champion |
| Beatriz Souza | |
| Birth Date: | 20 May 1998 |
| Birth Place: | Itariri, São Paulo, Brazil[1] |
| Height: | 176 cm |
| Weight: | 135.2 kg |
| Weight Class: | +78 kg |
| Olympics Rank: | 1 |
| Olympics Year: | 2024 |
| Olympics Weight: | Women's +78 kg |
| Worlds Rank: | 2 |
| Worlds Year: | 2022 |
| Worlds Weight: | Women's +78 kg |
| Regionals Type: | AM |
| Regionals Rank: | 1 |
| Regionals Year: | 2017 |
| Regionals Year2: | 2021 |
| Regionals Year3: | 2022 |
| Regionals Year4: | 2023 |
| Regionals Year5: | 2024 |
| Updated: | 3 August 2024 |
Beatriz Rodrigues de Souza (pronounced as /pt/; born 20 May 1998 in Itariri) is a Brazilian judoka. She represented Brazil at the 2024 Summer Olympics and won the gold medal in the Women's +78 kg competition.
Beatriz Rodrigues de Souza was born on 20 May 1998 in Itariri, São Paulo, daughter of the military veteran and ex-judoka Poscedonio José de Souza Neto.[2] [3] She was raised in the coastal town of Peruíbe.
Her first medal was at the 2017 Pan American Championships, held in Panama City.
Souza won a medal at the 2019 World Judo Championships.[4]
Souza won the silver medal in her event at the 2022 Judo Grand Slam Tel Aviv held in Tel Aviv, Israel.[5]
In 2024 Summer Olympics, she defeated Raz Hershko, winning Brazil's first gold medal in the Women's over 78 kg category, with Sarah Menezes as her coach.[6]