to the bronze, making Okimoto the first Brazilian woman to win a swimming Olympic medal. The following year, Okimoto wound up absent of the 2017 World Championships, finishing third in the national 10 km qualifiers and skipping the 5 km ones. See also List of Brazilian records in swimming References External links 2008 Olympics profile 1983 births Living people Brazilian female long-distance swimmers Olympic bronze medalists for Brazil Olympic bronze medalists in swimming Olympic swimmers of Brazil Swimmers at the 2008 Summer Olympics Swimmers at the 2012 Summer Olympics Swimmers at the 2016 Summer Olympics Swimmers from São Paulo Swimmers at the 2007 Pan American Games Swimmers at the 2011 Pan American Games Brazilian people of Japanese descent World Aquatics Championships medalists in open water swimming Pan American Games silver medalists for Brazil Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics Pan American Games medalists in swimming Medalists at the 2007 Pan American Games Medalists at the 2011 Pan American Games 21st-century Brazilian women