Jaqueline Mourão

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Jaqueline Mourão biathlon
Association BrazilBrazil Brazil
birthday 27th December 1975 (age 44)
place of birth Belo Horizonte , Brazil
Career
Debut in the European Cup / IBU Cup 2010
Debut in the Nor-Am-Cup 2007 (cross-country skiing)
2011 (biathlon)
Debut in the World Cup 2009 (cross-country skiing)
2012 (biathlon / world championship)
status active
World Cup balance
last change: March 12, 2012

Jaqueline Mourão (born December 27, 1975 in Belo Horizonte ) is a Brazilian athlete. She took part in four Olympic Games , in two summer games in cycling and in two winter games in cross-country skiing , and also runs biathlon .

Cycling

Jaqueline Mourão grew up in Belo Horizonte and tried different sports. She got her first mountain bike at the age of 15 and competed in her first races a year later. The first international championships were the 1997 Mountain Bike World Championships in Château-d'Oex . The following year, shortly before the national championships, she had an accident in which she was seriously injured. After her recovery, she decided to focus on cycling, triathlon and long distance running in the future. In addition to active sport, Mourão studied and worked at the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais . She completed her studies in training science with a master's degree . In 2002 she worked as an assistant coach at the UCI World Cycling Center in Aigle for two years with the help of a grant from the Olympic Solidarity Program .

During her stay in Europe, Jaqueline Mourão took part in mountain bike competitions on the continent and practiced her sport almost professionally. In the following season, she was ninth in the UCI world rankings in the final annual accounts , at the 2003 Mountain Bike Marathon World Championships she reached eighth place. This was followed in 2004 in Athens its first participation in Olympic Games , where it 18th in the cyclo-cross Mountainbikrennen was. In 2005 she became the first Brazilian ever to win a World Cup race in Mont Sainte-Anne - ahead of double Olympic champion Paola Pezzo . Mourão also became Brazilian cyclo-cross champion for the first time in 2005 and repeated this success in the following year and in 2008. Only in 2007 she had to admit defeat to Adriana Dos Santos Nascimento within four years . In 2007 she missed a medal when she finished fourth at the Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro . Her international mountain bike career was concluded with the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing , where she finished 19th in the cyclo-cross race. She continues to take part in mountain bike races nationally.

Winter sports

After the Olympics, Mourão focused only on her career in winter sports. She had her first encounter with snow at the age of 27 through her marriage to a Canadian - the couple have one child. Since she could not use her bike during the stormy winter weather, she started cross-country skiing . In December 2005, the Brazilian competed in her first FIS race in St. Ulrich am Pillersee and was tenth over the five-kilometer classic . Only a little later, after several other FIS and Alpine Cup races, it started at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin , where it was used over the ten-kilometer classic and took 67th place. A year later, at the Nordic World Ski Championships in Sapporo in 2007 , further international assignments followed. In the classic sprint Mourão reached 67th place and 68th place in the ten-kilometer freestyle. This was followed primarily by races in the Nor-Am Cup and the US Super Tour .

The next major event was the 2009 Nordic World Ski Championships in Liberec . There the Brazilian was 76th in the freestyle sprint, was lapped in the pursuit and therefore did not reach the finish line and reached 54th place over the 30-kilometer classic. In the 2009/10 season she contested her first race in the World Cup in Beitostølen and was 90th over ten-kilometer freestyle. There was only one more race over the same distance in Davos , in which she was 80th. In Vancouver she took part in her second Olympic Winter Games and her fourth Olympic Games and was 66 in the ten-kilometer freestyle race in Whistler Olympic Park. 2011 she started at Holmenkollen in Oslo for the third time at a Nordic World Ski Championships. In the freestyle sprint, Mourão reached 72nd place, over 10-kilometer classic 62nd place. At the Nordic World Ski Championships in 2013 in Fiemme Valley , she came in 75th place over 10 km freestyle. At the Nordic World Ski Championships in Lahti in 2017, she took 68th place over 10 km classic and 46th place in the 30 km mass start race. At the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang , she ran 74th place in the 10 km freestyle.

Since 2010, Mourão has been running biathlon in addition to cross-country skiing . After her pregnancy made cycling and cross-country skiing impossible following the Vancouver Olympics, she began shooting and enjoyed the biathlon combination. At the end of her career, she is now aiming to become the first Brazilian woman to take part in the Winter Olympics in biathlon in Sochi . Towards the end of the 2010/11 season she made her international debut in Annecy in the IBU Cup , where she finished 46th in a sprint. In the following season she took part regularly in the IBU Cup and won points in Canmore as the 31st of a sprint in the competitions of the racing series, which were held outside Europe for the first time. In another sprint in her second Canadian home, she was able to improve her best performance up to an 18th place, leaving several Russian, French and Canadian athletes behind, who were stronger. Also in the Biathlon-NorAm-Cup of the season she was able to achieve a good placement as fifth in La Patrie . The highlight of the season was the first participation in the Biathlon World Championships 2012 in Ruhpolding . Mourão was the first Brazilian biathlete to take part in biathlon world championships. In the individual she was 88th, in the sprint 108th At the World Championships in Nové Město the following year , she achieved 108th place in the sprint and 102nd place in the individual. She competed in biathlon and cross-country skiing at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. In biathlon, she finished 77th in the sprint and 76th in the individual. In cross-country skiing, she came in 65th place in the freestyle sprint.

Mourão lives in Québec and trains with the Canadian biathlon squad.

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personal data
SURNAME Mourão, Jaqueline
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Brazilian sportswoman
DATE OF BIRTH December 27, 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Belo Horizonte