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Maria da Costa
Maria Angélica
Leão
da
Costa
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
.