Marílson Gomes dos Santos

Marílson dos Santos ( Marílson Gomes dos Santos, born 6 August 1977) is a Brazilian long distance runner.

He won the 2003 and 2005 Corrida Internacional de São Silvestre, the traditional New Year's run in São Paulo.

In a marathon, the World Athletics Championships in Helsinki in 2005, he finished in tenth place.

In 2006, he briefly presented sequentially with 27:48,49 min over 10,000 m, and with a Brazilian 13:19,43 min over 5000 meters a South African record. In November 2006 he was in 2:09:58 h of the first South American winner in the 37- year history of the New York City Marathon and repeated the victory in 2008 with a time of 2:08:43 h

In 2007, he ran eighth of the London Marathon his personal best of 2:08:37 h and presented with a South 27:28,12 min record over 10,000 m. In the road race world championships in 2007 in Udine, he was seventh, undercutting with 59:33 minutes as the third non-Africans at all the hour mark for the half marathon. Not only his end, his 10-km ( 27:48 min) and its 15 -km meantime ( 42:15 minutes ) represent South America records

The following year he finished eighth at the World Half Marathon Championships in Rio de Janeiro and repeated his victory in New York City with a time of 2:08:43 h

A 16th place in the marathon at the World Championships in Berlin in 2009 followed in 2010 a sixth place in London and a seventh in New York City. At the end of 2010, he won for the third time, the Corrida de São Silvestre. At the Olympic marathon in London in 2012 he finished fifth.

Marílson dos Santos grew up in Ceilândia on near Brasília, and began at the age of 15 years with the Running on. He belongs to his wife, the middle distance runner Juliana Paula de Azevedo, the club Atletismo BM & F, for even the Olympic bronze medalist Vanderlei de Lima is active.