Fernando Costa

Fernando Eurico de Barros Oliveira da Fonseca e Costa (also Fernando Costa, born April 29, 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.

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Personal information
Full nameFernando Eurico de Barros
Oliveira da Fonseca e Costa
National team Spain
Born (1985-04-09) 9 April 1985
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

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
  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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