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Tânia Spindler | |
Fullname: | Tânia Regina Spindler de Oliveira |
Birth Date: | 10 April 1977 |
Birth Place: | Palotina, Paraná, Brazil |
Weight: | 560NaN0 |
Sport: | Athletics |
Event: | Race walking |
Club: | Clube de Atletismo BM&F |
Coach: | Irineu de Oliveira |
Pb: | 20 km walk: 1:33:23 (2008) |
Tânia Regina Spindler de Oliveira (born April 10, 1977 in Palotina, Paraná) is a female Brazilian race walker.[1] She set both a personal best and a national record-breaking time of 1:33:23 by finishing twenty-third at the 2008 IAAF World Race Walking Cup in Cheboksary, Russia.[2] She also claimed the nation's first ever title for the women's 20 km event at the 2009 Pan American Race Walking Cup in San Salvador, El Salvador, with a time of 1:38:53.[3]
Spindler represented Brazil at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where she competed for the women's 20 km race walk. Despite the tumultuous weather, she finished the race in thirty-seventh place, twenty seconds behind Ecuador's Johana Ordóñez, outside her personal best of 1:36:26.[4]
Spindler is a full-time member of Clube de Atletismo BM&F in São Paulo, being coached and trained by her husband Irineu de Oliveira.