Jaqueline Mourão

Jaqueline Mourão (* December 27, 1975 in Belo Horizonte ) is a Brazilian athlete. She participated in four Olympic Games, in part, at two Summer Olympics in cycling and in two Winter Olympics in cross-country skiing, biathlon and also operates.

Cycling

Jaqueline Mourão grew up in Belo Horizonte on and tried his hand at various sports. At the age of 15 she had her first mountain bike and denied a year later their first race. First international championships were the Mountain Bike World Championships in 1997 in Château d'Oex. The following year, she had an accident in which she severely injured just before the national championships. After her recovery, she decided to focus in the future on cycling, triathlon and long-distance running. In addition to the active sports studied and Mourão worked at the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais. She graduated from the training science with the master. In 2002 she worked with the help of a grant from the Olympic Solidarity Program for two years at the UCI World Cycling Centre in Aigle as an assistant coach.

During their stay in Europe Jaqueline Mourão participated in mountain bike competitions on the continent and pursued her sporting almost professionally. The following season she was in the annual final accounts in the UCI world ranking ninth in the Mountain Bike Marathon World Championships 2003, she reached eighth place. This was followed in 2004 in Athens its first participation in the Olympic Summer Games, where she finished 18th in the cross country Mountainbikrennen. In 2005 she won in Mont Sainte -Anne as the first Brazilian ever a World Cup race - before the double Olympic champion Paola Pezzo. Mourão 2005 was also the first Brazilian cross-country champion and repeated this success the following year and in 2008. Only in 2007 they had within four years Adriana Dos Santos Nascimento beaten. In 2007, she missed out on fourth place in the Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro a medal. Completion of their international mountain bike career, the 2008 Olympics were in Beijing, where she placed 19th place in cyclo-cross races. National they will continue to participate in mountain bike races.

Winter sports

After the Olympic Games themselves Mourão concentrated only on her career in winter sports. Through her marriage to a Canadian - the couple has a child - she had at the age of 27 years, her first encounter with snow. Since she could not use her wheel during stormy winter weather, she began cross-country skiing. In December 2005, the Brazilian in St. Ulrich am Pillersee denied her first FIS races and was about five-kilometer Classic tithe. A little later she launched after several other FIS and Alpine Cup race at the Olympic Winter Games 2006 in Turin, where she arrived on ten-kilometer Classic used and the 67th place went to. A year later, at the Nordic World Ski Championships 2007 in Sapporo followed by other international missions. In classical sprint Mourão reached rank 67 and ten-kilometer freestyle 68th was followed mainly race in Nor- Am Cup and the U.S. Super Tour.

Next major event was the 2009 Nordic World Ski Championships in Liberec. There the 76th Brazilian Freestyle sprints was, was overtaken in the pursuit and thus did not reach the target, reaching about 30-kilometer Classic 54th Place. In the 2009/10 season she played in Beitostølen her first race in the World Cup and was 90th on ten-kilometer freestyle. This was followed in Davos only another race over the same distance, in which it was 80th. In Vancouver, she took part in her second Olympic Winter Games and their total fourth Olympics and was the ten-kilometer freestyle race at Whistler Olympic Park 66th 2011 they launched at Holmenkollen in Oslo for the third time in a Nordic World Ski Championships. In the freestyle sprint Mourão reached the 72, the 10- kilometer Classic 62nd place.

Since 2010 Mourão operates in addition to cross-country skiing and biathlon. After her pregnancy following the Vancouver Olympic Games cycling and cross-country made ​​it impossible, she started shooting and took a liking to the Biathlon combination. As a conclusion of her career, she now seeks to participate as the first Brazilian in Sochi Winter Olympics in biathlon. Towards the end of the season 2010/11 she made ​​her international debut in Annecy in the IBU Cup, where it was 46 a sprint. The following season they regularly took part in the IBU Cup and won in Canmore than 31 a sprint for the first time outside Europe discharged competitions the race series points. In another Sprint they could improve in their second Canadian home her best performance up to a 18th place and thereby allow more Russian, French and Canadian athletes behind, which were stronger estimate. In biathlon NorAm Cup season could reach as fifth-placed in La Patrie a good placement. The highlight of the season was the first participation at the Biathlon World Championships 2012 in Ruhpolding. Mourão was the first Brazilian biathlete who participated in a biathlon World Cup. In individual she was 88, in the Sprint 108

Mourão lives in Quebec and trained with the Canadian Biathlon Squad.