Maria da Costa

Brazilian swimmer
The basics

Quick Facts

IntroBrazilian swimmer
PlacesBrazil
wasAthlete Swimmer
Work fieldSports
Gender
Female
Birth12 March 1931, Brazil
Death4 June 2002São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil (aged 71 years)
Star signPisces
The details

Biography

Maria Angélica Leão da Costa (March 12, 1931 – June 4, 2002) is a former Olympic freestyle swimmer from Brazil, who competed at one Summer Olympics for her native country.

At 17 years old, she was at the 1948 Summer Olympics, in London, where she finished 6th in the 4×100-metre freestyle, along with Talita Rodrigues, Eleonora Schmitt and Piedade Coutinho. She also swam the 100-metre freestyle, not reaching the finals.

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