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Since last Wednesday (20), Brazilian swimming has its godmother: Maria Lenk, the first Brazilian swimmer to set a world record. the Legislature.
Maria Lenk’s first blows were given with the assistance of her father, the German Lui Paul Lenk, at the age of 10, in the Tietê River (Brazil), to her lungs after surviving a double lung disease. Swimmer of Flamengo (the Brazilian multinational sports association), Maria Lenk has presented several titles to the club. She played a vital role in the popularization of butterfly swimming in the country, having been the first woman to compete in this modality at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, Germany.
Born in São Paulo on January 15, 1915, Maria Lenk participated in her first Olympic Games at the age of 17, at the Olympic Games in Los Angeles in 1932. She is the woman among the 82 athletes in the delegation; and the first South American to compete in an Olympic competition.
Inexperienced, he had a timid participation, finishing 20th in the 100 m freestyle; 11th in the 200m breaststroke; and be disqualified in the 100m backstroke.
On his return from the Olympic Games, he stood out by winning 4 editions of the Travessia competition from São Paulo to Nado, in a route of just over five kilometers between Ponte da Vila Maria and Clube Espéria.
At the age of 21, in 1936, at the Berlin Olympics, she was no longer the only woman in the Brazilian delegation. Their participation was hampered by shoulder problems, acquired in the midst of extensive education to make up for the lack of education of the Boat Holiday to Germany. He finished with only one 13th position in the 200-meter breaststroke.
“At the festival held in Nazi Germany, the pioneering spirit of Maria Lenk manifested itself again. The Brazilian broke the floor by pulling the arm of the breaststroke out of the water, as did the American Hebert Higgins.
Butterfly swimming was born there, which will be officially identified as an Olympic taste through the International Swimming Federation (FINA) only in 1956,” says the Brazilian Olympic Committee (COB), in the biography of the swimmer.
It was in 1939 that Maria Lenk recorded her wonderful feats, when she broke the world record in the 400 m breaststroke with a time of 6:16s at a festival at the Clube de Regatas Botafogo; and also beat the world record in the 200m breaststroke, with a time of 2m56s, a mark that surpassed the male record of the event, which was 2m59s, placing himself as “the first Brazilian athlete to set a world record”, reports the COB.
After some breaks in the sport, the swimmer again broke other records, while already competing among the masters. In total, there were 40 world records in this modality.
In 1988, Maria Lenk became the first Brazilian athlete to be inducted into the Swimming Hall of Fame of the International Swimming Federation (FINA), when she was revered with the Top Ten of the sport’s top entity, being considered one of the ten most productive lifeguards in the world.
In 2002, he won the Olympic Collar from Juan Antonio Samaranche. With that, she became the first Brazilian woman to win the Difference from the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
Until the end of his life, he maintained the habit of swimming 1,500 meters every day, so he controlled having a good physical condition despite osteoporosis.
“On April 16, 2007 he left the space in the morning, walked to the club and dived into the Flamengo pool, not knowing that this would be his last educational session. While swimming, his aortic artery ruptured from an aneurysm, causing a large hemorrhage in the mediastinum. In the blue silence of the pool water, Maria Lenk said goodbye, swimming,” the COB said in an account of her death at age 92.
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