Dirceu Pinto

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.

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1980 births

2020 deaths

Boccia players at the 2008 Summer Paralympics

Boccia players at the 2012 Summer Paralympics

Boccia players at the 2016 Summer Paralympics

Medalists at the 2008 Summer Paralympics

Medalists at the 2012 Summer Paralympics

Medalists at the 2016 Summer Paralympics

Paralympic boccia players for Brazil

Paralympic gold medalists for Brazil

Paralympic silver medalists for Brazil

People with muscular dystrophy

Sportspeople from Mogi das Cruzes

Paralympic medalists in boccia

Medalists at the 2015 Parapan American Games

Medalists at the 2019 Parapan American Games

20th-century Brazilian people

21st-century Brazilian people