The Most Famous
ATHLETES from Costa Rica
This page contains a list of the greatest Costa Rican Athletes. The pantheon dataset contains 3,059 Athletes, 1 of which were born in Costa Rica. This makes Costa Rica the birth place of the 142nd most number of Athletes behind Martinique and Ghana.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Costa Rican Athletes of all time. This list of famous Costa Rican Athletes is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Nery Brenes (1985 - )
With an HPI of 22.70, Nery Brenes is the most famous Costa Rican Athlete. His biography has been translated into 16 different languages on wikipedia.
Nery Antonio Brenes Cárdenas, (born September 25, 1985) is a Costa Rican sprinter. He is one of Costa Rica's most prominent track and field athletes and reached the semi-finals at the 400 m sprint in the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. Brenes won the gold medal at the 2012 IAAF World Indoor Championships in Istanbul, setting a new national and championship record. "Brenes improved his personal mark by approximately one second, something nobody expected on a championship, taking the gold medal", cited his personal trainer and motivator Andrés Oro Fijo Calderón. He has participated in major events like the 2007 World Championships in Athletics in Osaka, Japan, and achieved a 4th-place finish at the 2008 IAAF World Indoor Championships in Valencia, Spain. He also finished in 3rd place at the 2008 ÅF Golden League meet in Oslo, Norway.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as athletes born between 1985 and 1985. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living athletes include Nery Brenes.
