Tânia Spindler

Tânia Regina Spindler de Oliveira (born April 10, 1977 in Palotina, Paraná) is a female Brazilian race walker.^[1] 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.^[2] 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.^[3]

Tânia Spindler

Personal information
Full name	Tânia Regina Spindler de Oliveira
Nationality	Brazil
Born	(1977-04-10) 10 April 1977 (age 48) Palotina, Paraná, Brazil
Height	1.63 m (5 ft 4 in)
Weight	56 kg (123 lb)
Sport
Sport	Athletics
Event	Race walking
Club	Clube de Atletismo BM&F
Coached by	Irineu de Oliveira
Achievements and titles
Personal best	20 km walk: 1:33:23 (2008)

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.^[4]

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.