Talita Rodrigues

{{Short description|Brazilian swimmer (born 1934)}}

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| fullname = Talita de Alencar Rodrigues

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| nationality = {{BRA}}

| strokes = Freestyle

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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1934|8|23}}

| birth_place = Brazil

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{{MedalSport|Women's swimming}}

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{{MedalCompetition|Pan American Games}}

{{MedalBronze | 1951 Buenos Aires | 4x100 m freestyle}}

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Talita de Alencar Rodrigues (born August 23, 1934) is a former Olympic freestyle swimmer from Brazil, who competed at one Summer Olympics for her native country.{{cite web | title = Sports Reference Profile | work = Sports Reference | year = 2013 | url = https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ro/talita-rodrigues-1.html | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200417110659/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ro/talita-rodrigues-1.html | url-status = dead | archive-date = April 17, 2020 | accessdate = May 7, 2013}}

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.{{cite web | title = THE FIVE BEST BRAZIL'S RELAYS AT ALL TIMES | work = Best Swimming | date = September 22, 2005 | url = http://bestswimming.com.br/conteudo.php?i=3457 | accessdate = May 7, 2013|language=pt}} Even today, she is the youngest member of a Brazilian swimming delegation in Olympic history.{{cite web | title = Numbers of Brazilian Olympic team | work = Raia Quatro | date = May 16, 2012 | url = http://www.raiaquatronews.com.br/index.php?itemid=312 | accessdate = May 7, 2013|language=pt}}

At the inaugural Pan American Games in 1951, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, she claimed a bronze medal in the 4×100-metre freestyle.{{cite web | title = Brazil medals at 1951 Pan | work = UOL | year = 2007 | url = http://pan.uol.com.br/pan/2007/historia/1951/nopodio.jhtm | accessdate = May 7, 2013|language=pt}} She also finished 5th in the 200-metre freestyle. {{cite web|title=O GLOBO News Archive - March 3, 1951, Morning, General, page 12|url=http://duyt0k3aayxim.cloudfront.net/PDFs_XMLs_paginas/o_globo/1951/03/03/01-primeira_secao/ge030351012PRM1-1234_g.jpg|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130914210609/http://duyt0k3aayxim.cloudfront.net/PDFs_XMLs_paginas/o_globo/1951/03/03/01-primeira_secao/ge030351012PRM1-1234_g.jpg|url-status=dead|archive-date=14 September 2013|publisher=O GLOBO|accessdate=14 September 2013}}