Rui Abreu (23 June 1961 – 31 October 1982) was a Portuguese backstroke and freestyle
swimmer
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He competed at the
1976 Summer Olympics
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and the
1980 Summer Olympics
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Abreu was found unresponsive by his room mate and rushed to hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
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1961 births
1982 deaths
Portuguese male backstroke swimmers
Portuguese male freestyle swimmers
Olympic swimmers of Portugal
Swimmers at the 1976 Summer Olympics
Swimmers at the 1980 Summer Olympics
20th-century Portuguese people
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