Renan do Nascimento Mota Pegado better known as Renan Barao (Portuguese pronunciation: [en baw]) is a Brazilian professional mixed martial artist and the current UFC Bantamweight Champion. He holds one of the longest unbeaten streaks in MMA history with 33 straight fights without a loss (32 victories and 1 no contest) in a span of 9 years. As of February 17 2014 he is #3 in official UFC pound-for-pound rankings and ranked the #1 bantamweight in the world by Sherdog. Given a list of categories: company, educational institution, artist, athlete, office holder, mean of transportation, building, natural place, village, animal, plant, album, film or written work, what category does the paragraph belong to?
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