Tânia Spindler

Tânia Spindler

Personal information
Full name	Tânia Regina Spindler de Oliveira
Nationality	Brazil
Born	(1977-04-10) 10 April 1977 Palotina, Paraná, Brazil
Height
Weight	56 kg (123 lb)
Sport
Sport	Athletics
Event(s)	Race walking
Club	Clube de Atletismo BM&F
Coached by	Irineu de Oliveira
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)	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. 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 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, being coached and trained by her husband Irineu de Oliveira.

External links

• Tânia Spindler profile at IAAF
• Profile – UOL Esporte (Portuguese)
• Profile – Clube de Atletismo BM&F (Portuguese)
• NBC Olympics Profile