Fabiana Beltrame

Fabiana Beltrame (born April 9, 1982 in Florianópolis ) is a former Brazilian rower . In 2011 she became world champion in lightweight single rowing .

Beltrame started rowing in 1997, in 2002 she started with Caroline Beloni in the U23 world regatta in double sculls , the two finished second in the B final in eighth place. In the 2004 Olympics she finished in one to 14th place, four years later at the 2008 Olympics, she came to the 19th place.

If the 1.72 meter tall Beltrame competed in the normal weight classes up to 2008 with a competition weight of 69 kilograms, it apparently decreased significantly in 2009, because in 2010 she started as a rower in the lightweight single, in which a maximum weight of 59 Kilogram applies. With third place at the World Cup in Lucerne, she achieved a podium place in an international competition for the first time in her career, and at the 2010 World Rowing Championships she finished fourth. In 2011 she won the World Cup in Hamburg and the World Championships in Bled . Since the lightweight single is not an Olympic boat class, Beltrame switched to the lightweight double scull in 2012. Together with Luana de Assis , she finished tenth at the World Cup in Lucerne.

Web links

• Fabiana Beltrame in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Fabiana Beltrame at Worldrowing.com ( FISA database )