Dora Bria | |
Birth Date: | 19 July 1958 |
Birth Place: | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
Death Place: | São Gonçalo do Abaeté, Minas Gerais, Brazil |
Occupation: | Windsurfing |
Dora Bria (19 July 1958 – 22 January 2008) was a Brazilian six-time windsurfing 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.
She was born in Rio de Janeiro to a Brazilian mother and Romanian father.[1]
On January 22, 2008, Bria crashed her pick-up truck, on a rainy Tuesday evening, in Minas Gerais (southeastern Brazil), on her way to her native Rio de Janeiro.[2]