Birth Date: | 10 September 1980 |
Birth Place: | Mogi das Cruzes, Brazil |
Death Place: | Mogi das Cruzes, Brazil |
Height: | 180 cm |
Weight: | 100 kg |
Country: | Brazil |
Sport: | Boccia |
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Dirceu José Pinto (10 September 1980 – 1 April 2020) was a Brazilian Paralympic boccia player with muscular dystrophy. He won individual and pairs gold medals at the 2008 and 2012 Paralympics in the BC4 category.[1] [2] At the 2016 Olympics he placed second in the mixed pairs.[3]
He died from a congestive cardiac failure on April 1, 2020, at the age of 39.[4]