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 is ...

at the

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. Born in

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and raised in

Niterói Niterói (, ) is a Municipalities of Brazil, municipality of the state of Rio de Janeiro (state), Rio de Janeiro in the Southeast Region, Brazil, southeast region of Brazil. It lies across Guanabara Bay facing the city of Rio de Janeiro and forms ...

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

Tornado World Championship The Tornado World Championship are international sailing regattas in the Tornado class organized by the International Sailing Federation and the International Tornado class Association. For the original open event, the most titles have been won ...

, and her aunt and godmother

Cláudia Swan Cláudia Swan de Freitas (born 3 October 1974) is a Brazilian sailor. She competed in the women's 470 event at the 1992 Summer Olympics The 1992 Summer Olympics ( es, Juegos Olímpicos de Verano de 1992, ca, Jocs Olímpics d'estiu de 199 ...

, 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 Laser Radial before returning to the 470 partnering Martine Grael. After losing the

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spot to Oliveira and

Ana Barbachan Ana Luiza Busato Barbachan (born 15 August 1989 in Porto Alegre) is a Brazilian sports sailor. She was chosen by Olympic medalist Fernanda Oliveira to be her new partner in the 470 class after Oliveira's 2009 split with Isabel Swan. Barbachan h ...

, 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

2016 Summer Olympics The 2016 Summer Olympics ( pt, Jogos Olímpicos de Verão de 2016), officially the Games of the XXXI Olympiad ( pt, Jogos da XXXI Olimpíada) and also known as Rio 2016, was an international multi-sport event held from 5 to 21 August 20 ...

, Swan changed classes to the Nacra 17 in 2014, and alongside

Samuel Albrecht Samuel Albrecht (born 2 September 1981) is a Brazilian sailor who specializes in both two-person dinghy (470) and mixed multihull (Nacra 17) classes. He has been selected to compete for the Brazilian sailing team at the 2008 Summer Olympics, fi ...

, eventually earned her spot in the Olympic competition, where she finished tenth. A social communication graduate from Fluminense Federal University, Swan was also one of the embassadors who spoke for the

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in the

121st IOC Session The 121st International Olympic Committee (IOC) Session was held on October 1–9, 2009 in Copenhagen, Denmark, during which Rio de Janeiro was selected as the host city of the 2016 Summer Olympics. The city of Copenhagen was chosen on February ...

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