Tânia Regina Spindler de Oliveira (born April 10, 1977 in
Palotina
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Location
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,
Paraná) is a female Brazilian race walker. 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
The 2008 IAAF World Race Walking Cup was held on 10 and 11 May 2008 in the streets of Cheboksary, Chuvash Republic, Chuvashia, Russia.
Detailed reports on the event and an appraisal of the results was given for the IAAF.
Complete result ...
in
Cheboksary, Russia. 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.
Spindler represented
Brazil
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at the
2008 Summer Olympics in
Beijing
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, where she competed for the
women's 20 km race walk. Despite of the tumultuous weather, she finished the race in thirty-seventh place by twenty seconds behind Ecuador's
Johana Ordóñez, outside her personal best of 1:36:26.
Spindler is a full-time member of Clube de Atletismo BM&F in
São Paulo
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, being coached and trained by her husband Irineu de Oliveira.
References
External links
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Profile – UOL EsporteProfile – Clube de Atletismo BM&F
Brazilian female racewalkers
Living people
Olympic athletes for Brazil
Athletes (track and field) at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Sportspeople from Paraná (state)
1977 births
21st-century Brazilian women
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