Vanderlei Cordeiro de Lima

Vanderlei Cordeiro de Lima, usually known as Vanderlei de Lima, born on 4 July 1969 in Cruzeiro do Oeste, Parana, is a retired Brazilian long-distance runner. He began as a cross country runner, won the Tokyo International Marathon in 1996 and the Hamburg Marathon in 2004, and took the marathon at the Pan American Games in 1999 and 2003. At the 2004 Athens Olympics he was leading the marathon when a spectator seized him on the course; he fell to third and won the bronze medal, and the International Olympic Committee gave him the Pierre de Coubertin Medal for sportsmanship. He lit the Olympic cauldron at the 2016 Games in Rio de Janeiro.