Ricardo Santos

The title of this article is ambiguous. For the football player of the same name, see Ricardo Santos (football player)

Ricardo Santos
FIVB Prague Open 2012
portrait
birthday	January 6, 1975
place of birth	Salvador (Bahia), Brazil
partner	1998–2000 Zé Marco 2001–2002 José Loiola 2002–2009 Emanuel Rego 2010–2011 Márcio Araújo 2011–2012 Pedro Cunha 2013–2014 Álvaro Filho 2014–2016 Emanuel Rego 2016 André Loyola Stein 2017 Harley Marques 2018 Guto Carvalhaes
successes
2000 - FIVB Tour Champion 2000 - Olympic Silver 2001 - Vice World Champion 2001 - Winner Goodwill Games 2003 - FIVB Tour Champion 2003 - World Champion 2004 - FIVB Tour Champion 2004 - Olympic Champion 2005 - FIVB Tour Champion 2006 - FIVB Tour Champion 2007 - FIVB Tour Champion 2007 - Winner Pan American Games 2008 - Olympic bronze 2011 - Vice World Champion 2012 - Olympic participant 2013 - Vice World Champion
(As of March 20, 2018)

Ricardo Alex Costa Santos (born January 6, 1975 in Salvador da Bahia , Brazil ) is a Brazilian beach volleyball player . He won all Olympic medals, was world champion and three times vice world champion.

Career

In 1995 Ricardo Santos played his first FIVB tournament. In 1998 he won his first two events of the world series with his partner Zé Marco , in 1999 the Brazilians doubled their successes and in 2000 Ricardo and his partner became Tour Champion of the FIVB for the first time after five wins. In the same year the two won the silver medal at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney . In 2001 Ricardo and his new partner José Loiola became vice world champion in Klagenfurt and won the Goodwill Games in Brisbane , which were held for the last time. In the two years of their collaboration, the South Americans won another four tournaments on the FIVB World Tour .

At the end of 2002 Ricardo changed his partner again. The greatest successes came with Emanuel Rego . Ricardo / Emanuel became FIVB Tour Champions from 2003 to 2007 and were named FIVB Team of the Year three times. In 2003 the two Brazilians won the gold medal at the beach volleyball world championship in their home country in Rio de Janeiro . A year later they crowned their careers with the Olympic victory in Athens . In 2007 they won the Pan American Games .

They were unable to repeat this success in Beijing in 2008 . After losing in the semifinals against their compatriots Márcio Araújo / Fábio Luiz Magalhães , Ricardo / Emanuel won the game against the Brazilian Georgians Geor / Gia and took bronze. Ricardo has thus won all three Olympic medals. Emanuel Rego and Ricardo Santos achieved their last mutual success in the capital of their home country when they won the Brasília Open 2009. This was the 33rd joint success in tournaments of the world series; no other duo achieved so many victories on the tour.

2010

Ricardo initially played three tournaments on the 2010 World Tour with Pedro Salgado , but after the joint fifth place at the Brasilia Open, he changed partners again and has been playing with Márcio Araújo since the tournament in Rome . After a successful start with a fifth place, it was not until the tournament in Gstaad that Santos and Araújo could win a medal together for the first time. After a three-set defeat against the Germans Koreng / Klemperer , the two Brazilians won the game for third place. After not starting in Marseille, the two South Americans reached the semifinals of the following four events. While they lost the last two games in Klagenfurt and Kristiansand and finished fourth, they decided the game for third place against Klemperer and Koreng in the Grand Slam in Stare Jabłonki after losing in the semifinals. Things went even better for Ricardo and Marcio Araujo at the Åland Open, where they were only defeated by Rogers and Dalhausser in the final.

2011

At the start of the 2011 World Tour , Ricardo and Márcio Araújo finished fourth in Brasília. In Prague they finished fifth, while they failed in the Grand Slam in Beijing to the reigning world champions Brink / Reckermann in the round of 16. At the 2011 World Cup in Rome , they won their preliminary group with two wins. In the following four games of the knockout phase, they only gave one set against the German duo Dollinger / Windscheif before they lost to Ricardo's former teammate Emanuel Rego and his new partner Alison in the final . Ricardo / Márcio Araújo won the first FIVB tournament at the Grand Slam in Stavanger . The two separated at the end of July and Ricardo then played with Pedro Cunha . Ricardo / Cunha started very successfully with tournament victories in Klagenfurt and The Hague . In between, the two Brazilians finished seventeenth at the Åland Open and at the end of the season they finished thirteenth in Morocco .

2012

With Cunha, Ricardo won the bronze medal at the first tournament of the 2012 World Tour in Brasília. Then the duo won the tournament in Mysłowice . After two ninth places in China, the Brazilians achieved their second win of the season in Prague. In Moscow they won the small final. Ninth place in Rome was followed by fifth places in Gstaad and Klagenfurt. At the Olympic Games in London Ricardo / Cunha reached the last sixteen without losing a set, which they won against the Spaniards Herrera / Gavira . In the quarterfinals they were eliminated from the eventual Olympic champions Brink / Reckermann. This ended the season for Pedro Cunha, while Ricardo Santos finished ninth together with Vitor Felipe at the last event of the year in Poland.

2013

In 2013 Ricardo formed a new duo with Álvaro Morais Filho . Ricardo / Filho started the 2013 World Tour with a fourth place at the Fuzhou Open . They then finished third in Shanghai and finished fifth and ninth in the next three Grand Slams. At the World Cup in Stare Jabłonki they reached the first knockout round as second in the group. Without losing a set, they made it to the semi-finals, in which they dethroned the defending champions Alison / Emanuel. In the final, however, they had to admit defeat to the Dutch Brouwer / Meeuwsen . Ricardo and Filho won the Grand Slam in Gstaad that followed the World Cup . In Moscow they won the game for third place.

2014

Also in this game year Santos started with Filho. The two Brazilians reached the final in Norway . Further placements among the top eight teams were achieved in China , Switzerland and the United States with fifth places each.
At the last tournament of the year, the 2003 world champions played together again. Ricardo and Emanuel made it to the final at the first joint event of the world series since 2009.

2015/2016

Ricardo Santos and Emanuel Rego had numerous top ten placements on the World Tour . In March 2016, Santos played at the Grand Slam in Rio for the last time with Rego, who then ended his career. Since then, Santos has played nationally and internationally with various partners.

Awards

2005 - FIVB Team of the year (with Emanuel Rego ) - FIVB Most Outstanding - FIVB Best Hitter - FIVB Best Offensive Player
2006 - FIVB Team of the year (with Emanuel Rego ) - FIVB Best Offensive Player
2007 - FIVB Team of the year ( with Emanuel Rego ) - FIVB Most Outstanding - FIVB Best Offensive Player

Trivia

Santo's cousin Marrony is a soccer player.

Web links

• Profile at the world association FIVB (English)
• Profile in the Beach Volleyball Database (English)
• Ricardo Santos in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 2004 Olympic Games: Duo Rego / Santos digging for Olympic victory. (No longer available online.) DVV, August 25, 2004, archived from the original on January 20, 2016 ; Retrieved July 7, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ Profile in the Beach Volleyball Database
3. ↑ Emanuel Rego ends his career. beach-volleyball.de, March 1, 2016, accessed on March 1, 2016 .