Ronaldo da Costa
Ronaldo da Costa (born June 7, 1970 in Descoberto , Minas Gerais ) is a Brazilian long-distance runner and former world record holder in marathon running .
Da Costa was the youngest of eleven siblings and worked as a welder, tailor and potter before becoming an athlete. In the 5000-meter run , he was South American champion in 1993 and 1995. At the Ibero-American Championship in 1994, he won gold over 5000 m and silver over 10,000 m . In the same year he won bronze at the World Half Marathon Championships in Oslo with a time of 1:00:54 h and won the most famous road race in his country, the Corrida Internacional de São Silvestre . At the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta , he was eliminated in the semi-finals of the 10,000-meter run.
In 1997 he finished fifth in the Berlin Marathon in 2:09:07 h at his marathon premiere . A year later he won there in 2:06:05 h and broke the ten-year-old world record of the Ethiopian Belayneh Dinsamo . This made him the first person to complete a marathon at an average speed of more than 20 km / h - which corresponds to the pace that Emil Zátopek had in his hourly world record in 1951.
Handicapped by injuries, da Costa was never able to build on this performance again.
Web links
- Ronaldo da Costa in the database of World Athletics (English)
- Ronaldo da Costa on marathoninfo.free.fr
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Costa, Ronaldo there |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Brazilian marathon runner |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 7, 1970 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Descoberto ( Minas Gerais ) |