Ricardo Alex Costa Santos (born January 6, 1975) is a Brazilian beach volleyball player.
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Full name | Ricardo Alex Costa Santos | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | Brazilian | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Salvador, Bahia, Brazil | January 6, 1975|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hometown | João Pessoa | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 200 cm (6 ft 7 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 103 kg (227 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Santos won the silver medal in the men's beach volleyball competition at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney with partner Zé Marco de Melo. Santos also represented his native country at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. There he claimed the gold medal, teaming up with Emanuel Rego, with whom he won the world title in October 2003. The same pairing went on to win the bronze medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.[1]
At the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, he teamed with Pedro Cunha, but they lost in the quarter-finals.[2]
References
edit- ^ "Beijing 2008 – Men's Beach Volleyball". www.olympic.org. IOC. Retrieved 24 August 2014.
- ^ "London 2012 – Men's Beach Volleyball". www.olympic.org. IOC. Retrieved 24 August 2014.
External links
editWikimedia Commons has media related to Ricardo Santos.
- Ricardo Santos at the Association of Volleyball Professionals (archived)
- Ricardo Santos at FIVB.com
- Ricardo Santos at the Beach Volleyball Database
- Ricardo Santos at Olympics.com
- Ricardo Santos at Olympic.org (archived)
- Ricardo Santos at the Comitê Olímpico do Brasil (in Portuguese)
- Ricardo at Olympedia (archive)