Top female bodybuilding champion, 36, dies days before top-level competition after suffering a blood clot in Brazil as tributes are paid to 'angel in human form'

Daily Mail UK ^ | June 27, 2024 | Top female bodybuilding champion, 36, dies days before top-level competition after suffering a blood

[Red Badger]

...passed away yesterday from a pulmonary embolism...

A female bodybuilding champion has tragically died aged just 36 after suffering a blood clot in Brazil, days before she was due to participate in a top-level competition.

Cíntia Goldani, from Rio Grande do Sul, died on Wednesday from a pulmonary embolism, according to the organisers of the Musclecontest Brasil event in July.

'With great pain and sadness, we hereby inform you of the death of Professional Figure Athlete Cíntia Goldani due to complications from pneumonia,' Musclecontest International said in a statement.

'Cíntiawas an angel in human form. God needed reinforcement in heaven. She will never be forgotten by the MuscleContest family.'

Having only gone professional in 2021 and reached national levels a year later, Cíntia was due to attend one of the biggest competitions in the country next month.

Cintia Goldani (pictured, undated) was due to take part in Musclecontest Brazil next month

[Lizavetta]

WTF is going on with her neck?

[Red Badger]

She’s ‘flexing’ for the photo.................