Rui Abreu

{{short description|Portuguese swimmer}}

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| fullname = Rui de Abreu

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| birth_date = {{birth date|1961|6|23|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Maputo, Portuguese Mozambique

| death_date = {{death date and age|1982|11|1|1961|6|23|df=yes}}{{cite news|last = de Sousa|first = Neves|title = Rui de Abreu: uma morte assim?|newspaper = Diário de Lisboa|page = 17|language = pt|date = 2 November 1982|url = http://casacomum.org/cc/visualizador?pasta=06839.189.29478#!17|access-date = 4 October 2021}}

| death_place = St Vincent Charity Hospital, Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.

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Rui Abreu (23 June 1961 – 31 October 1982) was a Portuguese backstroke and freestyle swimmer.{{cite web |url=http://www.cm-coimbra.pt/index.php/equipamentos-menu-desporto-350/417-piscina-municipal-rui-abreu |title=RPiscina Municipal Rui Abreu |work=Coimbra |accessdate=7 December 2016}} He competed at the 1976 Summer Olympics and the 1980 Summer Olympics.{{cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ab/rui-abreu-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418010046/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ab/rui-abreu-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 April 2020 |title=Rui Abreu Olympic Results |access-date=5 December 2016}}

Abreu was found unresponsive by his roommate and rushed to hospital in Cleveland, Ohio, where he was pronounced dead.{{Cite news |last=Byland |first=Kathleen |date=8 November 1982 |title=Clipped from the Akron Beacon Journal |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/107320977/the-akron-beacon-journal/ |work=Akron Beacon Journal |page=40}} Coroners determined that he had died by suicide by suffocating himself with a plastic bag.