Renata Ribeiro

Renata Ribeiro
Olympic Games 2008 Renata Ribeiro (left) with Talita Antunes
portrait
birthday	7th December 1981
place of birth	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
size	1.77 m
Partner	2003–2004 Shaylyn Bede 2005–2008 Talita Antunes 2009, 2016 Vanilda Leão 2011 Read Lima 2012 Elize Maia 2015–2017 Thati Soares
successes
2003 - Fifth World Championship 2005 - Winner FIVB Open Athens 2005 - Winner FIVB Open Bali 2007 - Winner FIVB Open Sentosa 2007 - Winner FIVB Open Marseille 2007 - World Cup ninth 2008 - Winner FIVB Open Shanghai 2008 - Olympic fourth 2009 - Second FIVB Grand Slam Moscow
(As of July 18, 2018)

Renata Trevisan Martins Ribeiro (born December 7, 1981 in Rio de Janeiro ) is a Brazilian beach volleyball player .

Career

Ribeiro began her sporting career in 1993 with volleyball . In the hall she played for teams from Rio de Janeiro, Botafogo FR , Fluminense and Flamengo . In 2001 and 2002 she played her first tournaments on the FIVB World Tour as a beach volleyball player . In 2003 she formed a duo with Shaylyn Bede . At the World Championships in Rio Ribeiro / Shaylyn won their preliminary group without losing a set. They then prevailed in two national duels before losing to the eventual world champions Walsh / May from the USA in the quarter-finals and finishing in fifth place. In 2004 they reached the final of the Milan Open and several other top ten placements.

Ribeiro at the 2008 Olympics

In 2005 Ribeiro formed a new duo with Talita Antunes da Rocha . In their first year together on the World Tour, Ribeiro / Talita reached the finals in Saint Petersburg and Montreal and won the tournaments in Athens and Bali . In 2006, with one exception, they always made it into the top ten. The following year they won the Open tournaments in Sentosa and Marseille . At the 2007 World Cup in Gstaad , they remained unbeaten in the three group matches and in the first main round. In the quarter-finals they lost to the German duo Pohl / Rau and finished ninth. In 2008 Ribeiro / Talita started with a second place in Adelaide and the tournament victory in Shanghai . They also qualified for the Beijing Olympics . There they got unbeaten in the semi-finals, which they lost to Walsh / May-Treanor. In the game for the bronze medal, the Brazilians had to admit defeat to the Chinese Xue Chen / Zhang Xi .

In 2009 Ribeiro played with Vanilda Leão . At the Grand Slam in Moscow , Ribeiro / Leão were in the final. They also achieved a third and several fifth places on the World Tour. In 2011 Ribeiro returned to the world series with Reading Lima , but did not get beyond 17th place. The following year she only competed at the Brasília Open with Elize Maia . From 2015 to 2017 Ribeiro only played in national tournaments, mostly with Thati Soares and Vanilda Leão.

Private

Ribeiro is married to the martial arts athlete Mauricio Rua .

Web links

• Profile at Vôlei Brasil (Portuguese)
• Profile at the world association FIVB (English)
• Profile in the Beach Volleyball Database (English)
• Renata Ribeiro in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Profile in the Beach Volleyball Database (English)
2. ↑ Volleyballplayerz, Renata Ribeiro with her husband  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English)