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{{short description|Brazilian long-distance runner}}
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'''Ronaldo da Costa''' (born 7 June 1970) is a Brazilian former long-distance runner and former world-record holder for the marathon distance.

==Career==
Da Costa broke the ten-year-old [[Marathon (sport)|marathon]] [[world record]] in 1998 in [[Berlin]], having been fifth-placed in the previous year. The record had been held by [[Belayneh Densamo]] from [[Ethiopia]] at the [[Rotterdam Marathon]] in April 1988.<ref>[http://www.iaaf.org/statistics/toplists/inout=o/age=n/season=0/sex=M/all=y/legal=A/disc=MAR/detail.html IAAF All Time Marathon List] Retrieved 18 May 2010.</ref> The record fell in the following year, almost eleven months later. During his record run, Da Costa was also the first man to officially reach the 40&nbsp;km mark under two hours. He arrived at the 40K split in 1:59:55.<ref>{{cite web |title=2021 New York Marathon Statistical Information |url=https://germanroadraces.de/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/New-York-Marathon-2021-Statistical-Referemce-File-Nakamura.pdf |website=germanroadraces.de |access-date=26 August 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220823195234/https://germanroadraces.de/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/New-York-Marathon-2021-Statistical-Referemce-File-Nakamura.pdf |archive-date=23 August 2022}}</ref>

The youngest of eleven children, Da Costa became a national hero after winning the internationally competed [[Saint Silvester Marathon|São Silvestre]] Brazilian road race (15&nbsp;km) in 1994. The same year he won the 5,000&nbsp;m in the Ibero-American Championships entered by south-western European, Central and South American countries. From 1997, aged 27, until 2003, Da Costa achieved top-20 results in four marathons; however, unlike most marathon record holders, he did not win any international marathons apart from his world-record-breaking run.

==Achievements==
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!colspan="6"|Representing {{BRA}}
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|1993
|[[1993 South American Championships in Athletics|South American Championships]]
|[[Lima, Peru]]
|bgcolor=gold|1st
|5000 m
|[[1993 South American Championships in Athletics – Results#5000 metres|13:58.7]]
|-
|rowspan=3|1994
|[[1994 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships|World Half Marathon Championships]]
|[[Oslo, Norway]]
|bgcolor="cc9966" | 3rd
|Half marathon
|60:00.54
|-
|rowspan=2|[[1994 Ibero-American Championships in Athletics|Ibero-American Championships]]
|rowspan=2|[[Mar del Plata]], [[Argentina]]
|bgcolor=gold|1st
|5000m
|[[1994 Ibero-American Championships in Athletics – Results#5000 meters|13:47.99]]
|-
|bgcolor=silver|2nd
|10,000m
|[[1994 Ibero-American Championships in Athletics – Results#10,000 meters|28:18.26]]
|-
|rowspan=3|1995
|rowspan=2|[[Athletics at the 1995 Pan American Games|Pan American Games]]
|rowspan=2|[[Mar del Plata, Argentina]]
|7th
|5000 m
|[[Athletics at the 1995 Pan American Games – Men's 5000 metres|14:01.47]]
|-
|bgcolor="cc9966" | 3rd
|10,000 m
|[[Athletics at the 1995 Pan American Games – Men's 10,000 metres|29:07.68]]
|-
|[[1995 South American Championships in Athletics|South American Championships]]
|[[Manaus, Brazil]]
|bgcolor=gold|1st
|5000 m
|[[1995 South American Championships in Athletics – Results#5000 metres|13:51.66]]
|-
|1996
|[[Athletics at the 1996 Summer Olympics|Olympic Games]]
|[[Atlanta, Georgia]]
| 16th
|10,000 m
|[[Athletics at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Men's 10,000 metres|29:26.58]]
|-
|1997
|[[Berlin Marathon]]
|[[Berlin, Germany]]
|5th
|Marathon
|2:09:07
|-
|rowspan=2|1998
|[[Berlin Marathon]]
|[[Berlin, Germany]]
|bgcolor="gold" | 1st
|Marathon
|'''2:06:05 WR'''
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|[[1998 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships|World Half Marathon Championships]]
|[[Uster]], [[Switzerland]]
|bgcolor=  | 12th
|Half marathon
|61:04.54
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|1999
|[[London Marathon]]
|[[London, England]]
|17th
|Marathon
|2:14:10
|-
|2002
|[[Berlin Marathon]]
|[[Berlin, Germany]]
|16th
|Marathon
|2:12:52
|-
|2003
|[[Tokyo Marathon]]
|[[Tokyo, Japan]]
|17th
|Marathon
|2:20:57
|}

==References==
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==External links==
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[[Category:1970 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Athletes from Minas Gerais]]
[[Category:Brazilian men long-distance runners]]
[[Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 1995 Pan American Games]]
[[Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 1996 Summer Olympics]]
[[Category:Olympic athletes for Brazil]]
[[Category:World record setters in the sport of athletics]]
[[Category:Berlin Marathon men winners]]
[[Category:Brazilian men marathon runners]]
[[Category:Pan American Games bronze medalists in athletics (track and field)]]
[[Category:Pan American Games bronze medalists for Brazil]]
[[Category:Recipients of the Association of International Marathons and Distance Races Best Marathon Runner Award]]
[[Category:Medalists at the 1995 Pan American Games]]
[[Category:20th-century Brazilian sportsmen]]
[[Category:21st-century Brazilian sportsmen]]
[[Category:Troféu Brasil de Atletismo winners]]


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