Vanessa de Sousa Fernandes
Vanessa de Sousa Fernandes is a Portuguese athlete from Perosinho, Vila Nova de Gaia and the current triathlon European and World champion.
Vanessa 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 June 2006, she won the International Triathlon Union World Cup, ranking number one in the world. 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.
In August 2008, she finished second in the Beijing Olympic Games, winning the first Olympic medal in her career.
Vanessa de Sousa Fernandes is a Portuguese athlete from Perosinho, Vila Nova de Gaia and the current triathlon European and World champion.
Vanessa 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 June 2006, she won the International Triathlon Union World Cup, ranking number one in the world. 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.
In August 2008, she finished second in the Beijing Olympic Games, winning the first Olympic medal in her career.
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