Patrícia da Costa Freitas (born 10 March 1990) is an American-born Brazilian windsurfer, who specialized in Neil Pryde RS:X class.
[3][4] Freitas made her official debut at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where she placed eighteenth in the newly introduced RS:X class with a net score of 135 points.
[5][6] At the 2011 Pan American Games in Guadalajara, Freitas dominated the races with a remarkable grade of 12 to claim the gold medal in the women's sailboard class, edging out the host nation's Demita Vega by a 16-point gap.
[7] The following year, Freitas competed for her second Brazilian team in the RS:X class at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London by receiving a berth from her result at the ISAF Sailing World Championships in Perth, Western Australia.
[8] Struggling to attain a higher position during the early stages, Freitas managed to pull off a second and an eighth-place finish in the final legs but missed a chance to succeed for the medal race with a fourteenth-place effort and a net score of 110 points.