Tânia Spindler Explained

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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.

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Notes and References

  1. Tânia Spindler. https://web.archive.org/web/20200418032200/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/sp/tania-spindler-1.html. dead. 18 April 2020. 15 December 2012.
  2. News: Tânia Spindler bate duas vezes o recorde brasileiro e vai a Pequim. Tania Spindler hits twice and the Brazilian record to Beijing. Portuguese. Goio News. 15 May 2008. 15 December 2012.
  3. News: Clavelo Robinson. Javier. Mexico dominates Pan American Race Walking Cup. IAAF. 3 May 2009. 15 December 2012.
  4. Web site: Women's 20km Race Walk. NBC Olympics. 15 December 2012. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20120730233538/http://www.2008.nbcolympics.com/trackandfield/resultsandschedules/rsc%3DATW092100/standings.html. 30 July 2012.