Talita Rodrigues
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| Full name | Talita de Alencar Rodrigues | ||||||||||||||
| Nationality |  Brazil | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 23 August 1934 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | ||||||||||||||
| Died | 22 July 2019 (aged 84) Araguaína, Brazil | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||
| Strokes | Freestyle | ||||||||||||||
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Talita de Alencar Rodrigues (23 August 1934 – 22 July 2019) was a Brazilian Olympic freestyle swimmer, who competed at one Summer Olympics for her native country.[1]
Biography
[edit]Rodrigues was born in Rio de Janeiro on 23 August 1934. 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 Schmitt, 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]
Rodrigues died in Araguaína, Brazil on 22 July 2019, at the age of 84.[6]
References
[edit]- 1 2 "Sports Reference Profile". Sports Reference. 2013. Archived from the original on April 17, 2020. 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.[permanent dead link]
- ↑ "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. Retrieved 14 September 2013.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link) - ↑ "Talita Rodrígues". Olympedia. Retrieved 26 December 2025.
External links
[edit]- Talita Rodrigues at World Aquatics
- Talita Rodrigues at SwimRankings.net
- Talita Rodrigues at Olympics.com
- Talita Rodrigues at Olympedia
- Talita Rodrigues at InterSportStats
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