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Brazilian beach volleyball player
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
- ^ "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
- Ricardo Santos at the Association of Volleyball Professionals (archived)
- Ricardo Santos at the FIVB beach volleyball database
- Ricardo Santos at the Beach Volleyball Database
- Ricardo Santos at Olympics.com
- Ricardo Santos at Olympic.org (archived)
- Ricardo Santos at the Brazilian Olympic Committee (in Portuguese)
- Ricardo at Olympedia
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Preceded by | Men's FIVB Beach Volley World Tour Winner alongside Zé Marco de Melo 2000 |
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Preceded by | Men's FIVB Beach Volley World Tour Winner alongside Emanuel Rego 2003–2007 |
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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 Emanuel Rego 2005–2007 |
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