Ricardo Santos (beach volleyball)
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Full name | Ricardo Alex Costa Santos | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Born | Salvador, Bahia | January 6, 1975|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hometown | João Pessoa | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 200 cm (6 ft 7 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 103 kg (227 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Last updated: 7 July 2013 |
Ricardo Alex Costa Santos (born January 6, 1975 in Salvador da Bahia) is a beach volleyball player from Brazil.
Santos won the silver medal in the men's beach volleyball competition at the 2000 Summer Olympics with partner Zé Marco de Melo. Santos also represented his native country at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. 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.[1]
At the 2012 Summer Olympics, he teamed with Pedro Cunha, but they lost in the quarter finals.[2]
References
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- ^ "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.
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- Olympic beach volleyball players of Brazil
- Olympic gold medalists for Brazil
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- Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics
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- Pan American Games medalists in volleyball