Ricardo Alex Costa Santos (born January 6, 1975, in Salvador da Bahia) is a beach volleyball player from Brazil.
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| Full name | Ricardo Alex Costa Santos | ||||||
| Nationality | Brazilian | ||||||
| Born | January 6, 1975 Salvador, Bahia | ||||||
| Hometown | João Pessoa | ||||||
| Height | 200 cm (6 ft 7 in) | ||||||
| Weight | 103 kg (227 lb) | ||||||
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| Last updated: 7 July 2013 | |||||||
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]
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Ricardo Santos.
- 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
