Paralympic boccia player

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. At the 2016 Olympics he placed second in the mixed pairs.

He died from a congestive cardiac failure on April 1, 2020, at the age of 39.

References

External links

• Media related to Dirceu Pinto at Wikimedia Commons