Lobo received the Alferes Moraes Souto, the highest award from the Maranhão Military Fire Department] Maria Duarte,15, holds on to Olympic kitesurfer Bruno Lobo after he rescued her from drowning in the city of São Luis.
Bruno Lobo, who represented Brazil at the Paris 2024 Summer Games, was testing out his camera while kitesurfing at Praia do Olho in São Luis, Maranhão on Friday when he spotted Maria Duarte, 15, in distress.
Heart-stopping moment Olympic kitesurfer swoops in to rescue drowning girl An Olympic kitesurfer heroically rescued a teenage girl from drowning off the shores of a beach in Brazil.
Brazilian Olympic kitesurfer Bruno Lobo said he was out testing a new camera when jumped into action.
'At that moment I asked God and he was an angel in my life,' Duarte said in a video posted by Maranhão Governor Carlos Brandão on Instagram.
