{"id":72243,"date":"2026-04-20T20:55:45","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T01:55:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/20\/fitness-influencer-drowns-during-swimming-portion-of-ironman-texas\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T20:55:45","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T01:55:45","slug":"fitness-influencer-drowns-during-swimming-portion-of-ironman-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/20\/fitness-influencer-drowns-during-swimming-portion-of-ironman-texas\/","title":{"rendered":"Fitness influencer drowns during swimming portion of Ironman Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Mara Flavia Souza Araujo drowns early on Saturday<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Rescue crews locate body after athlete vanished<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A Brazilian fitness influencer has died after getting into difficulty during the swimming portion of an ironman event in Texas.<\/p>\n<p>Mara Flavia Souza Araujo was reported as a \u201clost swimmer\u201d around 7.30am at the Ironman Texas in Lake Woodlands near Houston on Saturday. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.click2houston.com\/news\/local\/2026\/04\/18\/race-participant-dies-during-swim-portion-of-ironman-texas-triathlon-in-the-woodlands-organizers-say\/\">According to KPRC 2 News<\/a>, safety crews could not immediately locate Araujo. The 38-year-old\u2019s body was discovered around 90 minutes later in 10ft of water by divers. She was pronounced dead on the scene.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/apr\/20\/fitness-influencer-drowns-during-swimming-portion-of-ironman-texas\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mara Flavia Souza Araujo drowns early on Saturday Rescue crews locate body after athlete vanished A Brazilian fitness influencer has died after getting into difficulty during the swimming portion of an ironman event in Texas. Mara Flavia Souza Araujo was reported as a \u201clost swimmer\u201d around 7.30am at the Ironman Texas in Lake Woodlands near &#8230; <a title=\"Fitness influencer drowns during swimming portion of Ironman Texas\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/20\/fitness-influencer-drowns-during-swimming-portion-of-ironman-texas\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Fitness influencer drowns during swimming portion of Ironman Texas\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}