{"id":392288,"date":"2026-04-22T15:22:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T15:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/392288\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T15:22:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T15:22:10","slug":"texas-ironman-tragedy-brazilian-influencer-mara-araujo-drowns-in-swim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/392288\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Ironman tragedy: Brazilian influencer Mara Araujo drowns in swim"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cPreliminary investigations indicate she drowned during the swimming portion of the event.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"BrazilianBrazilian fitness influencer Mara Flavia Souza Araujo died during an Ironman event in Texas. Photo \/ Instagram<\/p>\n

The event\u2019s organisers expressed their condolences for her in a statement at the weekend.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe send our deepest sympathies to the family and friends of the athlete and will offer them our support as they go through this very difficult time,\u201d they said. <\/p>\n

\u201cOur gratitude goes out to the first responders for their assistance.\u201d<\/p>\n

Araujo recently shared an image of her standing on train tracks to her 64,000 Instagram followers, which was captioned, \u201cEnjoy this ride on the bullet train that is life\u201d in Portuguese. <\/p>\n

\u201cAnd even with the speed of the machine blurring the landscape, look out the window \u2013 for at any moment, the train will drop you off at the eternal station.\u201d<\/p>\n

Since 2018, Araujo had competed in at least nine Ironman events and regularly updated her followers about her training and progress. <\/p>\n

The Brazilian influencer would also post pictures of herself DJing, something she described as being one of her \u201cpassions\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cNothing is by chance, it\u2019s destiny!\u201d she captioned one of her posts where she can be seen behind a set of decks. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cPreliminary investigations indicate she drowned during the swimming portion of the event.\u201d Brazilian fitness influencer Mara Flavia Souza…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":392289,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[74,202767,27274,6179,109272,2837,8231,565,78,8235,22961,105121,6501,111,139,69,213,110848,17933,14920,12628,2201],"class_list":["post-392288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-after","tag-araujo","tag-brazilian","tag-died","tag-drowns","tag-during","tag-event","tag-fitness","tag-in","tag-influencer","tag-ironman","tag-mara","tag-missing","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sports","tag-swim","tag-swimming","tag-texas","tag-tragedy","tag-went"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/392289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}