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2 unusual facts about Maria Lenk


Arne Ragnar Enge

Arne Enge was also an important athlete in Brazil, having been awarded several titles in swimming, and trained Maria Lenk, Brazil's greatest swimmer, in her early career.

Maria Lenk

Lenk's account of the event was that at the time she subscribed to a German specialized magazine that ran a story on David Armbruster's and Jack Sieg's work in developing "a new way of swimming the Breaststroke".


Brazil at the 1932 Summer Olympics

Since the San Pedro authorities charged one dollar for each person who disembarked in the Port of Los Angeles, the organizers only let out of the ship the athletes they felt had a chance to win medals plus swimmer Maria Lenk - the first South American woman to compete in the Olympics - to spend less.


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