Ana Marcela Cunha

Ana Marcela Cunha (born 23 March 1992 Salvador da Bahia) is a Brazilian swimming athlete, specialist in the long-distance open water.

At the 2008 Summer Olympics she won the age of sixteen and the youngest participant of the field over 10 km to fifth place in 1:59:36,8 hours until the final spurt they lost contact with the medal winners Larissa Iltschenko, Keri -Anne Payne, Cassandra Patten and to Angela Maurer, but could leave Swann Oberson in the battle for fifth place behind.

In the swimming world championships in Shanghai in 2011 she became world champion in the 25 km at about 30 ° C warm waters of the East China Sea in 5:29:22,9 before Angela Maurer ( 5:29:25,0 ) and the Italian Alice Franco ( 5: 29:30,8 ).