About Tânia Spindler
Born 1977. Tânia Spindler is a Brazilian athletics competitor.
Tânia Regina Spindler de Oliveira (born April 10, 1977 in Palotina, 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 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 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.
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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Who is Tânia Spindler?
Brazilian racewalker
When was Tânia Spindler born?
Tânia Spindler was born on 10 April 1977 in Palotina.
What is Tânia Spindler's occupation?
Tânia Spindler is an athletics competitor.
What nationality is Tânia Spindler?
Tânia Spindler is Brazilian.
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