Marílson dos Santos
Marílson dos Santos ( Marílson Gomes dos Santos ; born August 6, 1977 ) is a Brazilian long-distance runner .
Life
In 2003 and 2005 he won the Corrida Internacional de São Silvestre , the traditional New Year's Eve run in São Paulo.
At the marathon of the World Athletics Championships in Helsinki in 2005 , he finished tenth.
In 2006 he set a Brazilian record in quick succession with 27: 48.49 min over 10,000 meters and a South American record with 13: 19.43 min over 5000 meters . In November 2006 he was the first South American winner in the 37-year history of the New York City Marathon in 2:09:58 h and repeated the victory in 2008 with a time of 2:08:43 h.
In 2007 he ran his personal best of 2:08:37 h in eighth place in the London Marathon and set a South American record over 10,000 meters with 27:28.12 minutes. At the 2007 Road Running World Championships in Udine he finished seventh and was the third non-African to ever beat the hour mark in the half marathon with 59:33 minutes . Not only his end time, but also his 10 km (27:48 min) and 15 km intermediate times (42:15 min) are South American records.
The following year he finished eighth at the World Half Marathon Championships in Rio de Janeiro and repeated his victory in New York City with a time of 2:08:43 h.
A 16th place at the 2009 World Championships marathon in Berlin was followed by a sixth place in London in 2010 and a seventh in New York City. At the end of 2010 he won the Corrida de São Silvestre for the third time. He finished fifth in the 2012 Olympic Marathon in London.
Marílson dos Santos grew up in Ceilândia near Brasília and started running at the age of 15. Like his wife, the middle-distance runner Juliana Paula de Azevedo , he belongs to the Atletismo BM&F association, for which the Olympic bronze medalist Vanderlei de Lima is also active.
Web links
- Marílson Gomes dos Santos in the database of World Athletics (English)
- Athlete portrait on marathoninfo.free.fr
- Athlete portrait on the World Marathon Majors website
- Portrait at IAAF - Athlete Profile , October 17, 2016
Footnotes
- ↑ IAAF: New York surprise Gomes dos Santos - "In the marathon, there's no joking around" ( Memento from September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive ). November 15, 2006
- ^ IAAF: Radcliffe retains her title, Gomes dos Santos regains his - New York Marathon report ( Memento of December 6, 2008 in the Internet Archive ). November 2, 2008
- ^ IAAF: Dos Santos and Timbilil cruise to Sao Paulo wins ( Memento of January 10, 2011 in the Internet Archive ). January 1, 2011
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Santos, Marílson dos |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | dos Santos, Marílson Gomes |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Brazilian long distance runner |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 6, 1977 |