Pedro Manuel Barata De Macedo Lima

Lugar: Lisbon

Nascido: 1971

Morte: 2020

Biografia:

Pedro Manuel Barata de Macedo Lima (20 April 1971 – 20 June 2020) was a Portuguese-Angolan actor and Olympic swimmer. He was born in Lisbon, Portugal and died in Cascais, Portugal in 2020. Lima represented Angola in the 1988 and 1992 Summer Olympics, participating in several swimming contests but never advancing past preliminaries. He was disqualified from the Men's 50 m freestyle in 1988, finished 62nd in the Men's 100 m freestyle, 42nd in the Men's 100 m butterfly, 43rd in the Men's 50 m freestyle and 53rd in the Men's 100 m butterfly in 1992. Lima also won a gold and bronze medal at the 1991 All-Africa Games, he won the gold medal in the Men's 50 m freestyle and a bronze in the Men's 100 m butterfly. As of 2018, Lima held two national records for Angola the 50 m freestyle record set at the 1991 All-Africa Games of 23.98 seconds and the 100 m backstroke record of 59.30 seconds. After his swimming career, Lima became an actor and appeared in several Portuguese soap operas and movies. He was also a TV host and partner of model Anna Westerlund, with whom he had four children. Lima died by suicide in 2020.