Tatiane Sakemi
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| Full name | Tatiane Mayumi Sakemi |
| Nickname(s) | Tuka |
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 Brazil
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| Born |
22 March 1986 São Caetano do Sul, São Paulo, Brazil |
| Height | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) |
| Weight | 54 kg (119 lb) |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Swimming |
| Strokes | Breaststroke |
| Club | EC Pinheiros |
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Tatiane Mayumi Sakemi (born March 22, 1986) is a Brazilian swimmer of Japanese ancestry, who specialized in breaststroke events. She is a member of the swimming team for Esporte Clube Pinheiros in São Paulo.
In international rankings, Sakemi was not among the 150 best in the world by 2007. In 2008, she was the 30th best in the 50m breaststroke, and the 120th best in the 100m breaststroke. In 2009, she became the 6th best in the 50m breaststroke, and 20th best in the 100m breaststroke, plus the best in the two races in Brazil.
At the 2007 Pan American Games, in Rio de Janeiro, she came in 6th place in the 100m breaststroke, 7th in the 200m breaststroke and won bronze in the 4 × 100 m medley, but lost the medal because of doping problem of Rebeca Gusmao.
In 2007, she already held South American records in the 50 and 100m breaststroke.
Sakemi qualified for three swimming events at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, by eclipsing FINA B-standard entry times of 1:11.20 (100 m breaststroke) and 2:33.17 (200 m breaststroke) from the Maria Lenk Trophy in Rio de Janeiro. In the 100 m breaststroke, Sakemi challenged seven other swimmers on the third heat, including Argentina's Liliana Guiscardo, who beat her from the trials two months earlier. She edged out Iceland's Erla Dögg Haraldsdóttir to take the fifth spot and thirty-ninth overall by three hundredths of a second (0.03), in 1:11.75. In the 200 m breaststroke, Sakemi rounded out the first heat in last place and fortieth overall against Lithuania's Raminta Dvariškytė, and Finland's Noora Laukkanen, with a slowest time of 2:39.13.
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