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National team
  
Name
  
Fernando Costa

Sport
  
Height
  
1.81 m


Club
  
Leixoes Sport Clube

Weight
  
78 kg

Coach
  
Jose Baltar Leite

Strokes
  
Freestyle swimming

Full name
  
Fernando Eurico de BarrosOliveira da Fonseca e Costa

Born
  
29 April 1985 (age 39) (
1985-04-29
)
Porto, Portugal

College team
  

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. 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.

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. Costa challenged six other swimmers on the second heat, including three-time Olympians DragoČ™ 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.

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

Fernando Costa Wikipedia


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