Mariana LOBATO

Having worked her way up through larger dinghy classes like the Snipe and 420, and into Olympic classes like the 470, 49erFX, and Nacra 17, Lobato specialised in match racing – a discipline in which – sailing with Rita Gonçalves and Diana Neves – she represented her country at the London 2012 Olympic Games before going on to win the women’s match racing world title in 2013.

Since then she has been a regular face on racing GC32 and M32 catamarans and on the larger Ocean Fifty trimaran regatta circuit.

A qualified paramedic, Lobato is taking on her first around-the-world edition of The Ocean Race in 2023 having been a member of the Portuguese Mirpuri Foundation Racing Team which was victorious in the VO65 class in the inaugural staging of The Ocean Race Europe in 2021. She joined Paul Meilhat on board Biotherm, and will become his co-skipper at the end of the round-the-world race, for the Défi Azimut and the Transat Jacques Vabre.