Tânia Spindler

{{short description|Brazilian racewalker}}

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| fullname = Tânia Regina Spindler de Oliveira

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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1977|4|10|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Palotina, Paraná, Brazil

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| sport = Athletics

| event = Race walking

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| club = Clube de Atletismo BM&F

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| coach = Irineu de Oliveira

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| pb = 20 km walk: 1:33:23 (2008)

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Tânia Regina Spindler de Oliveira (born April 10, 1977 in Palotina, Paraná) is a female Brazilian race walker.{{cite sports-reference|title = Tânia Spindler|url = https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/sp/tania-spindler-1.html|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200418032200/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/sp/tania-spindler-1.html|url-status = dead|archive-date = 18 April 2020|access-date = 15 December 2012}} 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.{{cite news|title=Tânia Spindler bate duas vezes o recorde brasileiro e vai a Pequim|trans-title=Tania Spindler hits twice and the Brazilian record to Beijing|language=Portuguese|url=http://goionews.com.br/noticia/2008/05/15/tania-spindler-bate-duas-vezes-o-recorde-brasileiro-e-vai-a-pequim/2188/|publisher=Goio News|date=15 May 2008|accessdate=15 December 2012}} 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.{{cite news|last=Clavelo Robinson|first=Javier|title=Mexico dominates Pan American Race Walking Cup|url=http://www.iaaf.org/news/news/mexico-dominates-pan-american-race-walking-cu|publisher=IAAF|date=3 May 2009|accessdate=15 December 2012}}

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.{{cite web|title=Women's 20km Race Walk|url=http://www.2008.nbcolympics.com/trackandfield/resultsandschedules/rsc=ATW092100/standings.html|publisher=NBC Olympics|accessdate=15 December 2012|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120730233538/http://www.2008.nbcolympics.com/trackandfield/resultsandschedules/rsc%3DATW092100/standings.html|archivedate=30 July 2012}}

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.