Votre S, Mourão L
Int J Hist Sport. 2001;18(1):196-218. doi: 10.1080/714001488.
Maria Lenk is widely recognized as an exceptional athlete who participated in women's sport from around 1930 until 1950. In 1932, at the age of seventeen, she was the first woman to be included in a Latin American delegation to the Olympic Games. As a swimmer, she still sets world records at the age of eighty-six. This super-champion's sporting achievements and her persistent dedication to the advancement of sport still impress and surprise todays professional swimmers and researchers. Contextualised in the male-dominated society of Brazil during the first half of the twentieth century, this chapter traces the achievement, and rise to international fame, of Maria Lenk. It examines the factors that enabled her to emerge not only as an important figure in sport but also as an icon of female emancipation in Brazilian and Latin American society. The focus is on Lenk's influence on the issues which affected the development of women's sport in Latin America. It also highlights the significance of Lenk's contribution to the changing place of women in Brazilian and South American society.
玛丽亚·伦克被广泛认为是一位杰出的运动员，她在1930年左右至1950年期间参与女子体育运动。1932年，17岁的她成为首位被纳入拉丁美洲奥运会代表团的女性。作为一名游泳运动员，她在86岁时仍保持着世界纪录。这位超级冠军的体育成就以及她对体育事业发展的执着奉献至今仍令当今的职业游泳运动员和研究人员印象深刻并感到惊讶。在20世纪上半叶以男性为主导的巴西社会背景下，本章追溯了玛丽亚·伦克的成就以及她在国际上的声名鹊起。它审视了使她不仅成为体育界重要人物，而且成为巴西和拉丁美洲社会女性解放象征的诸多因素。重点是伦克对影响拉丁美洲女子体育发展问题的影响。它还突出了伦克对巴西和南美社会中女性地位变化所做贡献的重要意义。
