Personal information | |
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Full name | Rui de Abreu |
Born | Maputo, Portuguese Mozambique | 23 June 1961
Died | 1 November 1982[1] St Vincent Charity Hospital, Cleveland, Ohio, U.S. | (aged 21)
Sport | |
Sport | Swimming |
Rui Abreu (23 June 1961 – 31 October 1982) was a Portuguese backstroke and freestyle swimmer.[2] He competed at the 1976 Summer Olympics and the 1980 Summer Olympics.[3]
Abreu was found unresponsive by his roommate and rushed to hospital in Cleveland, Ohio, where he was pronounced dead.[4] Coroners determined that he had died by suicide by suffocating himself with a plastic bag.[2]