Isabel Marques Swan (born November 18, 1983) is a Brazilian sailor. She won a bronze medal in

470 class The 470 (Four-Seventy) is a double-handed monohull planing dinghy with a centreboard, Bermuda rig, and centre sheeting. Equipped with a spinnaker, trapeze and a large sail-area-to-weight ratio, it is designed to plane easily, and good teamwork i ...

at the

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. Born in

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and raised in

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, she started sailing at the age of 8, influenced by her father, with whom she would compete in the 1998

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, and her aunt and godmother Cláudia Swan, who was the first Brazilian female sailor in the Olympics, in

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. In 2004, Fernanda Oliveira, who had just competed in the

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, invited Swan to sail with her in the 470 class, a partnership that led to Brazil's first female medal in sailing. Afterwards Swan tried to compete in the

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before returning to the 470 partnering Martine Grael. After losing the

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spot to Oliveira and Ana Barbachan, Swan and Grael parted ways, with the latter moving onto the

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class and Swan calling Renata Decnop to be her new partner. After losing to Oliveira and Barbachan again in the qualifiers for the

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, Swan changed classes to the

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in 2014, and alongside Samuel Albrecht, eventually earned her spot in the Olympic competition, where she finished tenth. Swan returned in the

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, competing at the 470 partnering Henrique Haddad. She also announced she would run for vice-mayor of Niterói, as running mate to

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, in the

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. A

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graduate from

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, Swan was also one of the embassadors who spoke for the

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in the

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* * * * 1983 births Living people Sportspeople from Niterói Brazilian female sailors (sport) Sailors at the 2008 Summer Olympics – 470 Sailors at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Nacra 17 Sailors at the 2024 Summer Olympics – 470 Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics Olympic sailors for Brazil Olympic bronze medalists for Brazil Olympic medalists in sailing Summer World University Games medalists in sailing FISU World University Games bronze medalists for Brazil Medalists at the 2011 Summer Universiade 21st-century Brazilian sportswomen {{Brazil-Olympic-medalist-stub