Juliana Veloso

Juliana Rodrigues Veloso ( born December 22, 1980 in Rio de Janeiro) is a Brazilian water jumper. They will start for the club Fluminense Rio de Janeiro, both in art jumping from the 3 -meter board and in the 10 -meter platform diving and synchronized diving, they will be trained by Andréia Boehme.

Veloso was initially active in gymnastics, but switched to ten years for water jumping. Her first international title fights, she contested at the Pan American Games in Winnipeg in 1999, where she finished sixth and eighth from the tower of the 3 -meter board. The following year she took part in Sydney for the first time in the Olympic Games. There she resigned as 35th from 3 -meter board and 19th from 10 - m tower in each case after the preliminaries. At their first World Cup in 2001 in Fukuoka, she reached the finals of the tower and was tenth. In 2003, Veloso won their first medals at international championships. At the Pan American Games in Santo Domingo, she won the Silver Tower and the 3 -meter board bronze. At the World Championships in Barcelona, it reached the 3 -meter board the semi-finals and placed on 13th place Veloso started in Athens in her second Olympic Games, reaching in two individual competitions the semi-finals of the 3 -meter board she was ranked 18, from the tower Rank 16 in the Pan American Games in 2007 in her hometown Veloso could again win with bronze from the tower a medal. In Beijing, they finally played their third Olympics, but joined this time only in diving, where she was ranked 23. After games, Veloso initially took a two-year break from the water jumping. At the Pan American Games 2011 in Guadalajara but she could again achieve a good result from the 3 -meter board with sixth.