Overview
- The collapse happened Sunday, Oct. 18, during the Classic Bodybuilding Medium comparatives at the Telford International Centre in England.
- Immediate care came from a paramedic in the audience, two nurses, a doctor, an anesthetist and event medical staff, who performed CPR twice before ambulance crews and Midlands Air Ambulance moved him to hospital.
- Organizers paused and evacuated the event while the athlete was treated, then met with competitors and resumed the finals before the athlete's death was publicly confirmed.
- The PCA issued a statement on Oct. 21 confirming Mateusz Chmura's death and asking for privacy while no official medical cause has been released.
- Chmura had made his competition debut two weeks earlier and his widow has warned the public not to donate to an unauthorised online fundraiser circulating in his name.