Rui Abreu | |
Fullname: | Rui de Abreu |
Birth Date: | 23 June 1961 |
Birth Place: | Maputo, Portuguese Mozambique |
Death Date: | [1] |
Death Place: | St Vincent Charity Hospital, Cleveland, Ohio, U.S. |
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.