Jacqueline Silva

Jacqueline Silva is a Brazilian professional surfer from Florianopolis, born on 17 July 1979. Her first professional season was 2002, and she finished that debut year as runner-up, an early sign of the level she would sustain on the women's tour. She later climbed the world rankings, standing tenth in the world in 2009 and ninth in 2011, which placed her among the leading women surfers of her generation. She names Portugal as her favourite place to surf. Her profile is also kept by the World Surf League, the body that organises the elite professional circuit on which women's surfers from Brazil and elsewhere compete for rankings and titles.