Personal information | |
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Full name | Carolina Souza Borges Mendelblatt |
Nickname | Carol |
Nationality | ![]() ![]() |
Born | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | 25 May 1979
Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) |
Weight | 60 kg (132 lb) |
Sailing career | |
Class(es) | Sailboard, Sailboat |
Club | Iate Clube do Rio de Janeiro (BRA) Clube de Vela de Portugal (POR) [1] |
Carolina Souza Mendelblatt ( née Borges, born 25 May 1979 in Rio de Janeiro) is a Brazilian-born Portuguese windsurfer, who specialized in Mistral and Neil Pryde RS:X classes. She graduated with a BA (Hons)at Ravensbourne College of Design and Communication and worked as a broadcaster in London, U.K. [1] [2] She represented Brazil at the 2004 Summer Olympics, and had been training with the Rio de Janeiro Yacht Club ( Portuguese: Iate Clube do Rio de Janeiro) for most of her career before joining the Portuguese squad in 2012. [1] As of September 2013, Mendelblatt is ranked no. 91 in the world for the sailboard class by the International Sailing Federation.
Mendelblatt made her official debut as a member of the Brazilian squad at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, where she placed twenty-fifth in women's Mistral sailboard with an accumulated net score of 229, edging out Puerto Rico's Karla Barrera by a vast, 31-point gap. [3]
Eight years after competing in her last Olympics, Mendelblatt joined the Portuguese squad to compete for the second time in the RS:X class at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London by receiving a berth from the World Championships in Cadiz, Spain. [4] Mendelblatt withdrew from the Games before the event had officially started, claiming that she lacked the support of the Portuguese mission and that she was three months pregnant. [5] [6] [7]
Mendelblatt is married to Star sailor and two-time U.S. Olympian Mark Mendelblatt (2004 and 2012), and the couple currently resides in Miami, Florida. [8]