Ricardo Santos (beach volleyball)

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.

At the 2012 Summer Olympics, he teamed with Pedro Cunha, but they lost in the quarter-finals.

References

External links

Ricardo Santos at the Association of Volleyball Professionals (archived)

1975 births

Living people

Brazilian men's beach volleyball players

Beach volleyball players at the 2000 Summer Olympics

Beach volleyball players at the 2004 Summer Olympics

Beach volleyball players at the 2008 Summer Olympics

Beach volleyball players at the 2012 Summer Olympics

Olympic beach volleyball players for Brazil

Olympic gold medalists for Brazil

Olympic silver medalists for Brazil

Olympic bronze medalists for Brazil

Olympic medalists in beach volleyball

Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics

Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics

Beach volleyball players at the 2007 Pan American Games

Sportspeople from Salvador, Bahia

Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics

Pan American Games gold medalists for Brazil

Pan American Games medalists in volleyball

Medalists at the 2007 Pan American Games

21st-century Brazilian people