Ricardo Santos (beach volleyball)
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Ricardo Santos at Patria Direct Open 2012
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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, who won the silver medal in the men's beach team competition at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia, 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]
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Preceded by | Men's FIVB Beach Volley World Tour Winner alongside ![]() 2000 |
Succeeded by![]() and Tande Ramos (BRA) |
Preceded by | Men's FIVB Beach Volley World Tour Winner alongside ![]() 2003–2007 |
Succeeded by![]() and Harley Marques (BRA) |
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Men's FIVB World Tour "Best Hitter" 2005 |
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Men's FIVB World Tour "Best Attacker" 2005–2007 |
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Men's FIVB World Tour "Most Outstanding" 2005 |
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Preceded by | Men's FIVB World Tour "Most Outstanding" 2007 |
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Men's FIVB World Tour "Team of the Year" alongside ![]() 2005–2007 |
Succeeded by![]() and Harley Marques (BRA) |
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- Beach volleyball players at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Beach volleyball players at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Beach volleyball players at the 2007 Pan American Games
- Beach volleyball players at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Beach volleyball players at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Brazilian beach volleyball players
- Olympic beach volleyball players of Brazil
- Olympic gold medalists for Brazil
- Olympic silver medalists for Brazil
- Olympic bronze medalists for Brazil
- People from Salvador, Bahia
- Olympic medalists in volleyball
- Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Brazilian Olympic medalist stubs
- Brazilian volleyball biography stubs