Dora Bria (19 July 1958 – 22 January 2008) was a Brazilian six-time
windsurfing
Windsurfing is a wind propelled water sport that is a combination of sailing and surfing. It is also referred to as "sailboarding" and "boardsailing", and emerged in the late 1960s from the aerospace and surf culture of California. Windsurfing ga ...
champion.
Bria was known as a pioneer in Brazilian windsurfing. She won the national championship six times between 1990 and 1995. At the time of her death she held three South American championship titles.
Biography
She was born in
Rio de Janeiro
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to a Brazilian mother and Romanian father.
Death
On January 22, 2008, Bria crashed her
pick-up truck, on a rainy Tuesday evening, in
Minas Gerais
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(southeastern Brazil), on her way to her native
Rio de Janeiro
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References
External links
Dora Bria Online Tribute
1958 births
2008 deaths
Sportspeople from Rio de Janeiro (city)
Brazilian people of Romanian descent
Brazilian windsurfers
Road incident deaths in Brazil
Female windsurfers
20th-century Brazilian women
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