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Born | Trieste, Italy | 3 May 1999||||||||||||||
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Country | Italy | ||||||||||||||
Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||
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Manuel Mateo Bortuzzo (born 3 May 1999) is an Italian Paralympic swimmer. [1] [2] He competed at the 2024 Summer Paralympics, winning a bronze medal in the men's 100 m breaststroke SB4. [3]
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Bortuzzo is an Italian surname. Notable people with the surname include: