Vanessa Fernandes

Vanessa de Sousa Fernandes (born September 14, 1985) is a Portuguese athlete from Perosinho in Vila Nova de Gaia is the current world champion in the triathlon. Fernandes has won the European Triathlon Championships four consecutive times (elite and under-23 categories), 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 ceptre) 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 before signing 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. 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.

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She is the best is the current world champion in the triathlon! and she is portuguese! IN Portugal she is an HEROE! In my blog you can watch everything about her. Please, coment if you like(dislike) this post