Talita Rodrigues

Talita Rodrigues
Personal information
Full nameTalita de Alencar Rodrigues
Nationality Brazil
Born(1934-08-23)23 August 1934
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Died22 July 2019(2019-07-22) (aged 84)
Araguaína, Brazil
Sport
SportSwimming
StrokesFreestyle
Medal record
Women's swimming
Representing  Brazil
Pan American Games
Bronze medal – third place 1951 Buenos Aires 4x100 m freestyle

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

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

  1. ^ a b "Sports Reference Profile". Sports Reference. 2013. Archived from the original on April 17, 2020. Retrieved May 7, 2013.
  2. ^ "THE FIVE BEST BRAZIL'S RELAYS AT ALL TIMES". Best Swimming (in Portuguese). September 22, 2005. Retrieved May 7, 2013.
  3. ^ "Numbers of Brazilian Olympic team". Raia Quatro (in Portuguese). May 16, 2012. Retrieved May 7, 2013.[permanent dead link]
  4. ^ "Brazil medals at 1951 Pan". UOL (in Portuguese). 2007. Retrieved May 7, 2013.
  5. ^ "O GLOBO News Archive - March 3, 1951, Morning, General, page 12". O GLOBO. Archived from the original on 14 September 2013. Retrieved 14 September 2013.
  6. ^ "Talita Rodrígues". Olympedia. Retrieved 26 December 2025.

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