Vanessa Fernandes

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Medal record
Vanessa Fernandes
Vanessa Fernandes
Competitor for Flag of Portugal Portugal
Women's triathlon
World Championships
Gold 2007 Hamburg Elite
Silver 2006 Lausanne Elite
Bronze 2003 Queenstown Junior
European Championships
Gold 2003 Carlsbad Junior
Gold 2004 Tiszaujvaros U-23
Gold 2004 Valencia Elite
Gold 2005 Sofia U-23
Gold 2005 Lausanne Elite
Gold 2006 Rijeka U-23
Gold 2006 Autun Elite
Gold 2007 Copenhagen Elite
Gold 2008 Lisbon Elite
Bronze 2002 Gyor Junior
Women's duathlon
World Championships
Gold 2003 Affoltern Junior
Gold 2007 Gyor Elite
European Championships
Gold 2006 Rimini Elite
Bronze 2002 Zeitz Junior

Vanessa de Sousa Fernandes (born September 14, 1985) is a Portuguese athlete from Perosinho in Vila Nova de Gaia and the current triathlon European and World champion. Fernandes has won the European Triathlon Championships five consecutive years (5 elite and 3 under-23 titles, still in progress), since 2004, and on September 1, 2007, she became World champion for the first time, in Hamburg, Germany, managing to grab the only title (apart from the Olympic sceptre) missing from her career.

In 1999, Fernandes was introduced to triathlon by her father Venceslau Fernandes, a former professional cyclist and winner of the 1984 Volta a Portugal. She competed for her local triathlon club and then for Belenenses where she became world champion of under-23. Later she signed for SL Benfica, in 2005. Occasionally, Fernandes enters cross country events. Fernandes competed at the Olympic Games for the first time in 2004. On the second Olympic triathlon competition, at age eighteen, she finished in eighth place with a total time of 2:06:15.39.

In June 2006, she won the International Triathlon Union World Cup, ranking number one in the world.[1] In September, she equaled Australian Emma Carney's record number of consecutive wins in the World Cup, with a twelfth victory at the Beijing leg. Later that year, Fernandes was awarded with the "Best Female Athlete of the Year" prize from CNID (Clube Nacional de Imprensa Desportiva; English: Sports Press National Club) at its annual sports gala. In 2008 she won her 5th-in-a-row Elite European Championships title, at home in Lisbon.

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[edit] References

  1. ^ 2006 BG Triathlon World Cup rankings.

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