IFBB Pro League Wellness athlete Daniela Schulz has died at the age of 30. Schulz and her husband, Hiales Fodra, were killed in a plane crash on Friday, Aug. 9, 2024, in Vinhedo, Brazil, a town outside of São Paulo.
According to USA Today, all 61 people on flight 2283 died, including 57 passengers and the four-member flight crew. Multiple reports have confirmed that Schulz and her husband were among the passengers on the flight.
Schulz was traveling within Brazil from Cascavel to Guarulhos, where she was going to change flights and travel to Tupelo, MS, to compete in the 2024 Tupelo Pro, a 2024 Olympia qualifying event scheduled for the weekend of Aug. 16-17. It would have been Schulz’s IFBB Pro League debut.
Schulz was born on March 11, 1994, and represented her home country of Brazil when she competed. She earned her pro card in the Wellness Category B on the weekend of July 6-7, 2024, at the 2024 NPC Mr. Big Evolution Pro Qualifier event in Estoril, Portugal.
According to NPC News Online, Schulz competed in 2023 at the NPC Worldwide Musclecontest Ribeirao Preto. She placed second in the Novice A category and third in the Open Class C group.
In addition to her competitive career, Schulz was the owner and CEO of Lookfit Moda Fitness, her clothing brand. She was also a sponsored athlete with the supplement brand Dragon Pharma.
Several fellow pros shared condolences and comments on posts about Schulz’s passing. She is the latest of several deaths that have affected the bodybuilding community in 2024, including Men’s Open pros Kristoffer Berner and Doug Fruchey, NPC bodybuilder Daniel Broadhurst, Figure Pro Cintia Goldani, and Kevin Gebhardt.
No details of funeral arrangements were made public at the time of this article’s publication. BarBend will share further information on this developing story as it becomes available.
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