Mafalda Pires de Lima (born 14 April 1998) is a Portuguese kitefoiler.
[1] She gained a silver medal at the Snipe World Championships in the same year (2019).
[3] In September 2021 she became Portugal's first woman kitesurfing champion at the contest near Fuseta in the Algarve.
[1] The last five of the 20 places for women kitefoilers at the Paris Olympics were awarded at the Last Chance Regatta in April 2024 to the Austrian Surfer Alina Kornelli, the Swiss surfer Elena Lengwiler, Julia Damasiewicz of Poland, Derin Atakan of Turkey and de Lima took the twentieth place.
[4] 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.