country event birth_place weight height pb olympics birth_date article_title name
east timor marathon dili now timor leste -rrb- , dili , timor timur , indonesia -lrb- 52kg 1.62 m '' ` marathon ; '' ' : 2:33.11 2000 6 february 1979 calisto da costa
 calisto da costa
calisto da costa

calisto da costa -lrb- born 6 february 1979 -rrb- is a east timorese athlete .
he was one of the first athletes to represent east timor at the olympic games , when he competed at the men 's marathon at the 2000 summer olympics in sydney , though he technically competed as an individual athlete because east timor was newly independent and had not yet been formally recognized by the international olympic committee .
costa was one of the ten east timorese athletes who received training in darwin , northern territory prior to his participation in the sydney olympic games .
he finished in 71st place at 2:33:11 .
besides competing in the 2000 summer olympics , costa also competed in the dili-marathon where he finished 3rd place at 2:34:52 , and in the 2011 new york city marathon where he finished 276th place at 2:46:04 .
