Mauricio Santa Cruz Oliveira (born 17 October 1974 in Rio de Janeiro) is a Brazilian sailor who competed in the Summer Olympic Games, the Pan American Games, the Snipe World Championships and the . His first success came in 1992, finishing 3rd at the Snipe Junior World Championships in Motala (Sweden) with his crew . Only four years later, in 1996, he became Western Hemisphere & Orient champion and the following year World Champion in San Diego, sailing with Eduardo Neves. He then changed to a multihull class, the Tornado, and attended two Olympic games, in 2000 with Henrique Pellicano, and in 2004 with Joao Carlos Jordao. Afterwards, he moved to the J/24 class, winning a silver medal at the 2003 Pan American Games, a gold medal at the 2011 Pan American Games, a gold medal at the 2007 Pan