Tanya Anacleto, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Tanya Anacleto

Olympic swimmer

Date of Birth: 01-May-1976

Place of Birth: Beira, Sofala, Mozambique

Date of Death: 09-Feb-2003

Profession: swimmer

Nationality: Mozambique

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Tânia Anacleto Gregório (also Tanya Anacleto, May 1, 1976 – February 9, 2003) was a Mozambican former swimmer, who specialized in sprint freestyle events.
She represented Mozambique at the 2000 Summer Olympics, and also held numerous national records in a sprint freestyle double (both 50 and 100 m).Anacleto competed only in the women's 50 m freestyle at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney.
She received a ticket from FINA, under a Universality program, in an entry time of 29.48.
She challenged seven other swimmers in heat three, including Nigeria's top favorite Ngozi Monu and Aruba's 15-year-old teen Roshendra Vrolijk.
Diving in with a fastest reaction of 0.64 seconds, Anacleto scorched the field effortlessly to hit the wall with a second-fastest time and a Mozambican record of 28.78.
Anacleto failed to advance into the semifinals, as she placed fifty-eighth overall out of 74 swimmers in the prelims.On February 9, 2003, Anacleto and her husband Reginaldo Correia were killed instantly in a road accident after their car crashed into the tree across the Mozambican countryside.