Mārtiņš Rubenis

Mārtiņš Rubenis
nation	Latvia
birthday	September 26, 1978
place of birth	Riga ,  Latvian SSR
size	184 cm
Weight	90 kg
Career
discipline	Single seater
Trainer	Vera Zozuļa Dace Gods Jānis Ozoliņš Mihails Arhipovs
National squad	since 1998
status	resigned
End of career	2014
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 0 × 2 × World Cup medals 0 × 2 × 1 × EM medals 2 × 1 × 1 ×
winter Olympics bronze 2006 Turin singles bronze 2014 Sochi Mixed team  Luge World Championships silver 2003 Sigulda singles silver 2003 Sigulda Mixed team bronze 2004 Nagano singles  European Luge Championships bronze 2006 Winterberg Mixed team gold 2008 Cesana Mixed team gold 2010 Sigulda Mixed team silver 2014 Sigulda Mixed team
Placements in the Luge World Cup
Debut in the World Cup 1999  Overall World Cup ES 6. ( 2006/07 )

Mārtiņš Rubenis (born September 26, 1978 in Riga ) is a former Latvian luge rider . He has won bronze medals at the Winter Olympics and two silver medals at world championships . He is also a two-time European champion in the mixed team discipline.

Career

Rubenis drew international attention for the first time by winning the 1998 Junior World Championships. In the same year he started at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano and finished in 14th place. In his first season in the Luge World Cup 1999/2000 he was 18th overall. At the 2000 World Championships in St. Moritz , Switzerland , he finished 11th in the singles and, together with Iluta Gaile , Roberts Suharevs and Dainis Leksis, reached tenth place in the mixed team competition. A year later in Calgary he was only 29th. In the World Cup, he did not get past 25th overall. At the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City , Rubenis fell in the singles and was not included in the ranking. In the World Cup he was able to improve his performance significantly. At the 2003 World Championships on his home track in Sigulda , he won the silver medal in the single-seater and together with Anna Orlova , Zigmars Berkolds and Sandris Berzins in the mixed team. However, he finished the 2002/03 season only in 34th place overall. This subsequently remained his weakest ranking. The following year he turned 18.

At the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin , Rubenis surprisingly won the bronze medal behind Armin Zöggeler and Albert Demtschenko . With this he won the first Olympic medal for sovereign Latvia . He was also successful in the World Cup in the 2005/06 season and was 11th overall. After these successes, he was voted Latvia's Sportsman of the Year . The following season 2006/07 was the most successful season of his career with sixth place in the overall standings for Rubenis. At the 2007 World Championships in Innsbruck he was seventh in the single-seater. In the mixed team, he finished sixth with his teammates.

A year later he won the title with the mixed team at the 2008 European Championships in Cesana . The team repeated this success at the 2010 European Championships in Sigulda. At the 2011 World Championships in Cesana, Rubenis was eleventh in the single-seater. In Altenberg 2012 and Whistler 2013 he reached places 19 and 12. In the winters 2012/13 and 2013/14 he again achieved two top 20 positions in the overall World Cup with places 14 and 13.

At the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi , Rubenis won his second Olympic bronze medal together with Elīza Tīruma and the two-seater Andris and Juris Šics in the mixed team. After the end of the 2013/14 season, he ended his active career.

successes

World Cup victories

Team relay

No.	date	place	train
1.	Nov 26, 2005	Sigulda	Sigulda luge and bobsleigh track
2.	0Dec 9, 2006	Calgary	Bobsleigh and sled run in Canada Olympic Park

Private

Rubenis is active as a DJ in Värka Kru . Rubenis is divorced and has been in a relationship with model Eva Kokoreviča since 2015 , and has been married since 2016.

Awards

In 2014 Rubenis was awarded the Latvian Cross of Merit.

Web links

Commons : Mārtiņš Rubenis  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Mārtiņš Rubenis in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Mārtiņš Rubenis in the database of the International Luge Federation
• Mārtiņš Rubenis at the Latvijas Olimpiskā komiteja

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Latvia Luge at the 2014 Sochi Winter Games. In: sports-reference.com. Retrieved February 14, 2017 . 
2. ↑ Ilmārs Stūriška: Mārtiņš Rubenis nopērk biļeti vienā virzienā. In: la.lv. Retrieved February 14, 2017 (Latvian). 
3. ^ Tara Mac Isaac: An Olympic Hero's Spiritual Journey. In: theepochtimes.com. March 7, 2016, accessed February 14, 2017 . 
4. ↑ Lohengrin From Varka Crew. In: forumcinemas.lv. February 5, 2010, accessed February 14, 2017 . 
5. ↑ Santa Sergejeva: VAKARA ZIŅAS: Mārtiņš Rubenis atgriežas no Amerikas un atrāda sapņu līgavu. In: nra.lv. August 28, 2015, accessed February 14, 2017 . 
6. ↑ : MĀRTIŅŠ RUBENIS UN IEVA KOKORĒVIČA APPRECĒJUŠIES. In: news.lv. June 28, 2016, accessed February 14, 2017 .