Elisabete Jacinto
Elisabete dos Santos Marques Jacinto (born June 8, 1964 in Montijo ) is a Portuguese rally raid driver.
Jacinto, a professional teacher and author of various school books and comics, drove her first race, the Grândola 300 in 1992, on a Suzuki DR 350 . From 1993 to 1998 she was the annual winner of the "Troféu de Senhoras" of the Portuguese Motocross Championships and from 1994 to 1998 the winner of the women on the Spanish "Baja de Alta Alcarria". From 1999 to 2001, she was the first female participant to take part in the Motocross World Championships . At the Optic 2000 rally in Tunisia in 1997 she took second place in the marathon class.
From 1998 she regularly took part in the Dakar Rally , which she won in 2002 as best woman. She drove in the motorcycle class until 2002 and switched to the truck class from 2003. Jacinto last took part in the Dakar Rally in 2009 and has been driving the Africa Eco Race , the successor to the Dakar Rally on the African continent , since 2010 . In the Africa Eco Race she took 2nd place in 2011 and 2012 and 3rd place in the truck rating in 2013 and 2014. In 2015 she took 4th place and won the truck ranking in 2019.
With the victory in the truck class at the Africa Eco Race 2019, she is the first woman to win a marathon rally in a truck. Jutta Kleinschmidt and Elisabete Jacinto are so far the only two women who have ever won a marathon rally in their class.
Jacinto is married and lives in Lisbon .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Africa Race 2019: Elisabete Jacinto wins Africa Race in the truck category on rallyraidnetwork.com
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Jacinto, Elisabete |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Santos Marques Jacinto, Elisabete dos (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Portuguese rally raid driver |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 8, 1964 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Montijo |