For the third consecutive year Brazilian runner Fredison Costa has won the Walt Disney World Marathon.
Costa has won the marathon five times in the past six years. His finish time on Sunday was 2:33:24.
The champion runner has been living and training in Orlando for the last two years. He trains at the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex with US Olympic track coach Brooks Johnson.
Mateus Trindale placed second in the marathon with a time of 2:34:49 and Jeff Martinez placed third with a time of 2:36:00.
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Brazilian runner Fredison Costa won the 2014 Walt Disney World Marathon, defeating countryman and 2013 winner Adriano Bastos.
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Last year Costa lost the Disney Marathon title to Bastos, but this year’s win makes it the third time in the last four years that Costa has won. This is also the 10th straight Brazilian win.
Bastos – winner of eight previous Disney Marathons – injured his left leg in October 2013 and said the injury slowed his training.
Costa, who called this the “most important race of [his] life,” finished the marathon …

It was an exciting finish at this morning’s Walt Disney World Marathon, in which Brazil’s Fredison Costa narrowly edged out his fellow Brazilian, Adriano Bastos, to win the race for the second consecutive year.
Bastos was favored to finish the event first, but came in second to Costa by a sliver of 14 seconds.  Bastos has enjoyed the title of champion seven times in previous years.  Costa’s winning time was 2:19:01, while the field’s leading female finisher, Renee High of Virginia Beach, Virginia, turned in a time of 2:48:33.
The race wraps …