Talita Rodrigues
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Full name | Talita de Alencar Rodrigues | |||||||||||||
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Brazil | August 23, 1934|||||||||||||
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Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||
Strokes | Freestyle | |||||||||||||
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Talita de Alencar Rodrigues (born August 23, 1934) is a former Olympic freestyle swimmer from Brazil, who competed at one Summer Olympics for her native country.[1]
At 13 years old, she was at the 1948 Summer Olympics, in London, where she finished 6th in the 4×100-metre freestyle, along with Eleonora Schmidt, Maria da Costa and Piedade Coutinho.[1][2] Even today, she is the youngest member of a Brazilian swimming delegation in Olympic history.[3]
At the inaugural Pan American Games in 1951, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, she claimed a bronze medal in the 4×100-metre freestyle.[4] She also finished 5th in the 200-metre freestyle. [5]
References
- 1 2 "Sports Reference Profile". Sports Reference. 2013. Retrieved May 7, 2013.
- ↑ "THE FIVE BEST BRAZIL'S RELAYS AT ALL TIMES". Best Swimming (in Portuguese). September 22, 2005. Retrieved May 7, 2013.
- ↑ "Numbers of Brazilian Olympic team". Raia Quatro (in Portuguese). May 16, 2012. Retrieved May 7, 2013.
- ↑ "Brazil medals at 1951 Pan". UOL (in Portuguese). 2007. Retrieved May 7, 2013.
- ↑ "O GLOBO News Archive - March 3, 1951, Morning, General, page 12". O GLOBO. Archived from the original on 14 September 2013. Retrieved 14 September 2013.
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