Mafalda Pires de Lima

Mafalda Pires de Lima (born 14 April 1998) is a Portuguese kitefoiler. She has been sailing since the age of ten and when it was agreed that Formula Kite was to be an Olympic sport then she began to enjoy the difficult sport. She was Portugal's first woman kitesurfing champion.

Life de Lima was born in 1998 into a family who were involved in sailing She was later involved in sailing Laser dinghies. She found kitefoiling so intriguing because it is difficult. She was approached by Pedro Afonso to get involved in 2019 when Formula Kite was first agreed as an Olympic sport five years before the Paris Olympics.

In September 2021 she became Portugal's first woman kitesurfing champion at the contest near Fuseta in the Algarve. She was then a student at the Nova School of Business & Economics. She has also been involved as a crewmember of an SSL47 which at 47 feet is a lot larger than her former or kitefoil crafts. The Portuguese sailing authorities confirmed that she was to be their competitor at the Olympics in 2024 joining the national team of Diogo Costa and Carolina João and the ILCA 7 sailor Eduardo Marques.