Cecilia Tait

Personal information

Full name

Cecilia Roxana Tait Villacorta

Nickname

La Zurda del Oro (The Golden Left-Handed Woman)

Born

May 2, 1962 (age 54)
Lima, Peru

Height

1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)

Weight

63 kg (139 lb)

Volleyball information

Current club

retired

National team

1978–1988

Peru

Honours

Olympic Games
	1988 Seoul	Team
World Championship
	1982 Peru	Team
	1986 Czechoslovakia	Team
Pan American Games
	1979 San Juan	Team
	1987 Indianapolis	Team
	1983 Caracas	Team
South American Championship
	1979 Rosario	Team
	1983 São Paulo	Team
	1985 Caracas	Team
	1987 Montevideo	Team

Cecilia Roxana Tait Villacorta (born May 2, 1962) is a Peruvian politician and former volleyball player. Nicknamed La Zurda del Oro (The Golden Left-Handed Woman) she participated in three Summer Olympics with the Peruvian national team, finishing 6th in 1980, 4th in 1984 and winning a silver medal at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul.

In 1998 Cecilia Tait entered politics, becoming elected municipal councillor in Villa María del Triunfo, representing the Fujimorist party Vamos Vecino. Tait was elected Congresswoman in 2000, representing Perú Posible. She was the first Afro-Peruvian elected to Peru's Congress. The resignation of President Alberto Fujimori led to new elections the following year in which she was reelected for the period 2001–2006. Tait sponsored several bills approved by the Congress that expanded sports programs for both the country's most talented athletes and poor school children as well.

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