27-Year-Old Italian Swimmer Dies Following Heart Attack Only a Month After Engagement

ITALIAN swimmer Mariasofia Paparo has died following a heart attack just shy of her 28th birthday and only a month after getting engaged to be married. pic.twitter.com/1E5vgo7kNB

— UNN (@UnityNewsNet) April 15, 2022

The swimmer died suddenly at the age of 27 after suffering a cardiac arrest in San Giorgio a Cremano (Naples) on Monday, April 11, according to local reports. Her fiancé and fellow swimmer Matteo Scarpati, who had successfully proposed on March 13, paid tribute to the woman he planned to marry. “You were an angel who changed my life by giving me the strength to do things that I never could think about doing,” he said on Facebook.