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Ranked shortlist · 10 of 189 sport and recreation clubs
Best sport and recreation clubs in Rio de Janeiro
The 10 most notable sport and recreation clubs in Rio de Janeiro, in rank order. The order is curation quality — how well attested and how complete each record is — not popularity, and no place on this list paid to be on it.
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1
Gracie Humaita Centro
R. da Alfândega, 81 - Sl 201
110 m from Candelária, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.270, percentile 100 of 189
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2
Nihon Karate Kyokai
R. Félix da Cunha, 65
528 m from São Francisco Xavier, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.261, percentile 99.47 of 189
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3
Gracie Barra Leblon
Av. Ataulfo de Paiva, 591
213 m from Antero de Quental, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.260, percentile 98.94 of 189
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4
Mauro Ayres Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu
R. Visc. de Pirajá, 318 - Sl 205A
197 m from Nossa Senhora da Paz, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.259, percentile 98.4 of 189
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5
Hodory Artes Marciais
R. Raul Travassos, 188
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.254, percentile 97.87 of 189
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6
Kioto Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Tijuca
R. Jurupari, 18
264 m from Sáenz Peña, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.252, percentile 97.34 of 189
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7
Academia Complere
R. dos Inválidos, 190
749 m from Carioca, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.241, percentile 96.81 of 189
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Jiu Jitsu Carlson Gracie
Rua Silva Castro
213 m from Siqueira Campos, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.238, percentile 96.28 of 189
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Escola Delariva de Jiu-Jitsu
Clube Olympico, Rua Pompeu Loureiro, 116
160 m from Cantagalo Station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.238, percentile 95.74 of 189
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10
Abi-Rihan Dojo
Clube Monte Líbano - Av. Borges de Medeiros, 701
256 m from Jardim de Alah / Leblon, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.232, percentile 95.21 of 189
How this list is made
Every place in this group was scored by the same model, with each term z-normalised inside the group and capped, so a famous chain cannot win by being famous everywhere. The weights, verbatim:
- attestation by independent providers
- +0.35
- record completeness (website, phone, address)
- +0.25
- Overture existence confidence
- +0.20
- Michelin designation (Wikidata, CC0)
- +0.40
- brand fame (Wikidata sitelinks)
- −0.15
- same-name chain collision
- −0.30
Curation quality, not popularity: how well attested and how complete a record is.
No licensable popularity signal; this ranks curation quality, not taste
Independent check: 5,951 places listed in Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0; validation only, never published or scored) were matched to our records by name within 250 m. Across the 5,651 that fall in groups of at least 10, the median matched place sits at percentile 73 and 24.2% are in the top decile, against 10% by chance; five families have enough anchors to report (arts, food and drink, lodging, shopping, sport), while health care (5), lifestyle services (17), travel (26) have too few and are not validated. A match needs both the guide and the catalogue to name the same place, which favours well-attested places — a term this rank itself rewards — so these are lower bounds; Michelin's 528 in-group anchors have a median percentile of 100, but that is partly circular: across the Wikivoyage matches, the 17 that also carry the designation term this rank scores sit at 99.93, against 72.55 for the 5,934 without it.
The catalogue carries no rating, review count, price or opening hours, so this file has none.
Station locations from Wikidata (CC0-1.0). Nearest station, not service: no frequency, timetable or departures.
Nobody paid for placement: no ads, no sponsored results, no ratings for sale.
Data: AllThePlaces (CC0-1.0), BrightQuery (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), DAC (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Foursquare Open Source Places (Apache-2.0), Meta (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Microsoft (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), PinMeTo (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), RenderSEO (CDLA-Permissive-2.0).