Mônica Rezende (born June 13, 1969 in

Pará Pará () is a Federative units of Brazil, state of Brazil, located in northern Brazil and traversed by the lower Amazon River. It borders the Brazilian states of Amapá, Maranhão, Tocantins (state), Tocantins, Mato Grosso, Amazonas (Brazilian st ...

) is a former international

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from

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. Swam 14 years by the

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. When she turned 18, Monica received invitation of the

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and went on to defend the club. Made the University of Architecture and Physical Education, and later a master's degree in a Portuguese university. At the

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, Rezende finished 27th in the 200-metre backstroke, and 29th in the 100-metre backstroke. At the

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, in

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, she swam the first olympic event of history in the 50-metre freestyle, breaking the Olympic Record for some minutes, with a time of 27.44 seconds. She won the third series, breaking the Olympic record set in the previous series by the Costa Rica's swimmer Carolina Mauri (27.96 seconds). Monica's record lasted only one series. In the next series, Diane Van Der Plats from the Netherlands won with 26.49 seconds. She finished 31st in the 50-metre freestyle, and 11th in the 4×100-metre freestyle. Mônica was the coach of

between 1995 and 2007, and today works in swimming gyms.

References

1969 births Living people Brazilian female backstroke swimmers Swimmers at the 1988 Summer Olympics Olympic swimmers for Brazil Brazilian female freestyle swimmers Sportspeople from Pará 20th-century Brazilian sportswomen {{Brazil-swimming-bio-stub