Jaqueline Mourão
Jaqueline Mourão (born 27 December 1975) is a Brazilian cyclist, biathlete, and cross-country skier. Being an eight-time Olympian from 2004 to 2022, she is not only one of the two athletes, together with Ayumu Hirano, who participated in three consecutive Olympic Games in East Asia between 2018 and 2022 inclusive, respectively in Pyeongchang, Tokyo, and Beijing, but also one of the two athletes, together with Montell Douglas, who participated in both of the Summer Olympics and Winter Olympics hosted by Beijing, respectively in 2008 and 2022.
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| Born | 27 December 1975 Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m) | ||||||||||||||
| Weight | 120 lb (54 kg) | ||||||||||||||
| Spouse | Guido Visser | ||||||||||||||
| Website | www.JaqueMourao.com | ||||||||||||||
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| Country | Brazil | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | Biathlon, cross-country skiing, cycling | ||||||||||||||
| Coached by | Guido Visser | ||||||||||||||
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| Olympic finals | 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2014, 2018, 2020, 2022 | ||||||||||||||
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Born and raised in the mountainous city of Belo Horizonte, she only began cross-country skiing at the age of 29 and competed in an XC-Ski race for the first time in December 2005. After only ten years of XC-Ski racing, in 2015, she was competitive enough to obtain three podiums in NorAm Cups.
She participated in five Winter Olympics — Torino (XC-Ski), Vancouver (XC-Ski), Sochi (XC-Ski & Biathlon), Pyeongchang (XC-Ski) and Beijing (XC-Ski) — as well as in three Summer Olympics, Athens (MTB), Beijing (MTB), and Tokyo (MTB). Jaqueline Mourão carried the Brazilian flag during the Closing Ceremony at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics and during the Opening Ceremony at the 2014 Sochi Olympics and the 2022 Beijing Olympics.