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Born | Petrópolis, Brazil | 30 March 1989||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Current team | Caloi Performance | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Discipline | Mountain bike | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Role | Rider | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Henrique Avancini (born 30 March 1989) is a Brazilian mountain bike racer.[1] He is a two-time winner of the UCI Mountain Bike Marathon World Championships (2018 and 2023), 17 times winner at the National Cross-country cycling championship (2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022), and four times Pan American champion. Partnered with German rider Manuel Fumic at the 2016 and 2017 Absa Cape Epic, he won the prologue time trial and stage 1 in 2017, and the stage 7 finale in 2016.
He represented Brazil at the 2012 Summer Olympics, 2016 Summer Olympics, and 2020 Summer Olympics. He is considered the most successful Brazilian mountain bike athlete.[2][3]