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Fernando Costa

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Personal information
Full nameFernando Eurico de Barros
Oliveira da Fonseca e Costa
National team Portugal
Born (1985-04-29) 29 April 1985 (age 39)
Porto, Portugal
Height1.81 m (5 ft 11 in)
Weight58 kg (128 lb)
Sport
SportSwimming
StrokesFreestyle
ClubLeixões Sport Clube
College teamWayne State University (U.S.)
CoachJosé Baltar Leite

Fernando Eurico de Barros Oliveira da Fonseca e Costa (also Fernando Costa, born 29 April 1985) is a Portuguese former swimmer, who specialized in long-distance freestyle events.[1] He is a two-time Olympian, and currently holds the Portuguese record in the 1500 m freestyle from the 2007 Summer Universiade in Bangkok, Thailand.

Costa made his first Portuguese team, as a 19-year-old, at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, where he competed in the men's 1500 m freestyle. Swimming in last out of five heats, Costa closed out the field with an eighth-place finish and twenty-first overall in 15:32.55, more than thirty seconds behind the winner Yuri Prilukov of Russia.[2][3]

At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Costa qualified for the second time in the men's 1500 m freestyle, by clearing a FINA B-standard entry time of 15:16.22 from the 2007 Summer Universiade in Bangkok, Thailand.[4][5] Costa challenged six other swimmers on the second heat, including three-time Olympians Dragoș Coman of Romania, and Nicolas Rostoucher of France. He raced to sixth place by two seconds behind Coman in 15:26.21. Costa failed to advance into the final for the second time, as he placed twenty-ninth overall in the prelims.[6]

Costa is also a former member and a student assistant coach of the swimming team for the Wayne State Warriors, and a graduate of nutrition and food science at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan.

References

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  1. ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Fernando Costa". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 16 January 2013.
  2. ^ "Men's 1500m Freestyle Heat 5". Athens 2004. BBC Sport. 20 August 2004. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
  3. ^ Thomas, Stephen (20 August 2004). "Men's 1500 Freestyle, Prelims Day 7: David Davies Fastest, Posts British Record 14:57.03". Swimming World Magazine. Archived from the original on 30 June 2013. Retrieved 22 April 2013.
  4. ^ "Desporto: Universíadas – Fernando Costa mínimos olímpicos e recorde nos 1.500 livres" [Sports: Universiade – Fernando Costa set an Olympic place and national record in the 1,500 free] (in Portuguese). Jornal de Noticias. 14 August 2007. Archived from the original on 8 December 2015. Retrieved 16 January 2013.
  5. ^ "Olympic Cut Sheet – Men's 1500m Freestyle" (PDF). Swimming World Magazine. p. 20. Retrieved 9 April 2013.
  6. ^ "Men's 1500m Freestyle Heat 2". Beijing 2008. NBC Olympics. Archived from the original on 21 August 2012. Retrieved 16 January 2013.
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