{"id":14557,"date":"2007-04-19T09:40:41","date_gmt":"2007-04-19T14:40:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/uncategorized\/2007\/04\/brazilian-swimming-federation-names-long-course-spring-championships-after-maria-lenk\/"},"modified":"2014-07-27T17:32:33","modified_gmt":"2014-07-28T00:32:33","slug":"brazilian-swimming-federation-names-long-course-spring-championships-after-maria-lenk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/brazilian-swimming-federation-names-long-course-spring-championships-after-maria-lenk\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazilian Swimming Federation Names Long Course Spring Championships After Maria Lenk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil, April 19.  YESTERDAY, Brazilian Swimming Federation President Coaracy Nunes Filho announced that the Brazilian Long Course Spring Championships will be named after Maria Lenk as a memorial to the Brazilian trailblazer.<\/p>\n<p>The meet will take place May 1-6 this year in Rio de Janeiro.<\/p>\n<p>After suffering an aneurism during swim practice, Lenk sustained a fatal heart attack while being prepped for surgery at Copa D&#39;Or Hospital on April 16.<\/p>\n<p>The Brazilian Olympic Committee declared three days of mourning for the woman who did more to advance sports opportunities for Latin American women than any other person. <\/p>\n<p>In 1932, Lenk became South America&#39;s first female Olympian. Competing in Los Angeles, she made the semifinals of the 200 breast while also swimming the 100 free and 100 back. <\/p>\n<p>In the 1936 Olympics, she again advanced to the semifinals of the 200 breaststroke in Berlin, before setting world records in the 200 and 400 breaststroke events in 1940. 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