Juli Furtado

Juliana " Juli" Furtado ( born April 4, 1967 in New York City ) is a former American racing driver and two-time world champion, who races contested on the road and on mountain bikes.

Juliana Furtado grew up in Vermont, and operational 1981-1987 skiing and was a member of the U.S. national team. After several serious knee injuries, she turned to cycling.

1989 Furtado was national champion in the road race. Then they played mainly mountain bike race. From 1991 to 1994 she was "Overall Champion" " the National Off- Road Biking Association ( NORBA ) from 1991 to 1995, she won the national Grundig racing series from 1993 to 1995 World Cup. She was twice Mountain Bike World Champion: 1990 Cross Country ( the first ) and in 1992 in Downhill; so that it is only athlete who managed to win the title in both disciplines. In 1996, Furtado at the Olympic Games in Atlanta in cross country and finished tenth.

Even during the Olympic year, Juliana Furtado did not feel quite healthy, and in 1997 was with her lupus erythematosus, an autoimmune disease, diagnosed. They therefore had to end their active cycling career. She currently lives in Northern California and propagates the mountain named after her, called Juliana. She was inducted into the Mountain Bike Hall of Fame and in 2005 into the United States Bicycling Hall of Fame in 1993.