Patrícia Freitas

Patrícia Freitas
Freitas in 2015
Personal information
Full namePatrícia da Costa Freitas
NicknamePaty
NationalityAmerican - Brazilian
Born (1990-03-10) 10 March 1990 (age 34)
Washington, District of Columbia, U.S.
Height1.72 m (5 ft 8 in) (2012)
Weight58 kg (128 lb) (2012)
Sailing career
ClassSailboard
ClubIate Clube do Rio de Janeiro[1]
CoachLucas Souza[1]
Medal record
Sailing
Representing  Brazil
Pan American Games
Gold medal – first place 2011 Guadalajara Women's RS:X
Gold medal – first place 2015 Toronto Women's RS:X
Gold medal – first place 2019 Lima Women's RS:X

Patrícia da Costa Freitas (born 10 March 1990) is an American-born Brazilian windsurfer, who specialized in Neil Pryde RS:X class.[1][2] She represented Brazil in three editions of the Olympic Games (2008, 2012 and 2016) and captured her first ever individual title in her sailing career at the 2011 Pan American Games in Guadalajara, Mexico. Holding dual citizenship between Brazil and the United States, Freitas currently resides in Rio de Janeiro, where she sails and trains for the Rio de Janeiro Yacht Club (Portuguese: Iate Clube do Rio de Janeiro) under her personal coach and mentor Lucas Souza.[1] As of September 2013, Freitas is ranked as one of the top ten sailors in the world for the sailboard class by the International Sailing Federation, following her successes at the South American and World Championships in her home nation.[3][4]

Freitas made her official debut at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where she placed eighteenth in the newly introduced RS:X class with a net score of 135 points.[5][6]

At the 2011 Pan American Games in Guadalajara, Freitas dominated the races with a remarkable grade of 12 to claim the gold medal in the women's sailboard class, edging out the host nation's Demita Vega by a 16-point gap.[7]

The following year, Freitas competed for her second Brazilian team in the RS:X class at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London by receiving a berth from her result at the ISAF Sailing World Championships in Perth, Western Australia.[8] Struggling to attain a higher position during the early stages, Freitas managed to pull off a second and an eighth-place finish in the final legs but missed a chance to succeed for the medal race with a fourteenth-place effort and a net score of 110 points.[9][10] At the 2012 Summer Olympics, she finished in 13th place.

She qualified again for her home Olympics in Rio 2016 and finished 8th at those Games.[2]

She represented Brazil at the 2020 Summer Olympics.[11][12]

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Patricia Freitas". London2012.com. London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 2 May 2013. Retrieved 8 September 2013.
  2. ^ a b Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Patrícia Freitas". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 8 September 2013.
  3. ^ "Wind blows at the RS:X World Championships 2013". Surfer Today. 4 March 2013. Retrieved 8 September 2013.
  4. ^ "Mashich And Freitas On Top In Brazil". ISAF. 25 February 2013. Archived from the original on 28 May 2013. Retrieved 8 September 2013.
  5. ^ "Women's RS:X". Beijing 2008. NBC Olympics. Archived from the original on 28 July 2012. Retrieved 5 September 2013.
  6. ^ "Patrícia Freitas e Matheus Dellagnello abrem a contagem de ouros na vela" [Patrícia Freitas oscillates in Qingdao] (in Portuguese). Globo.com. 17 August 2008. Retrieved 8 September 2013.
  7. ^ Rodrigues, Joāo Gabriel (22 October 2011). "Patrícia Freitas oscila em Qingdao" [Patrícia Freitas and Matheus Dellagnello added more golds in sailing] (in Portuguese). Globo.com. Retrieved 8 September 2013.
  8. ^ "Mundial de Velas em Perth – Brasil conquista sete vagas para as Olimpíadas de Londres" [World Sailing in Perth – Brazil earns seven tickets for the London Olympics] (in Portuguese). Bombarco. 22 October 2011. Retrieved 8 September 2013.
  9. ^ "Women's RS:X". London2012.com. London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 13 September 2012. Retrieved 27 November 2012.
  10. ^ "Vela brasileira fez pior campanha em Olimpíadas dos últimos 20 anos" [Brazilian sailors made worst Olympic record in 20 years] (in Portuguese). Central Record de Comunicação. 20 August 2012. Archived from the original on 3 April 2013. Retrieved 8 September 2013.
  11. ^ Brasil, Bolavip. "Brasil já tem 275 atletas classificados para os Jogos Olímpicos de Tóquio". Bolavip Brasil (in Brazilian Portuguese). Archived from the original on 27 June 2021. Retrieved 27 June 2021.
  12. ^ "Sailing FREITAS Patricia". Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Retrieved 23 August 2021.