Edson Ricardo MARTINS

Brazil

Bobsleigh

Date of Birth: 4 Oct 1989

Age: 32

Gender: Male

Place of birth: MARILIA

Birth Country:

Brazil

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Bobsleigh	2-man BRA Brazil	29
	4-man BRA Brazil	20

Schedule

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
	Yanqing National Sliding Centre	2-man Official Training Heat 1	Finished
After Heat 1	Yanqing National Sliding Centre	2-man Official Training Heat 2	Finished
	Yanqing National Sliding Centre	2-man Official Training Heat 3	Finished
After Heat 3	Yanqing National Sliding Centre	2-man Official Training Heat 4	Finished
	Yanqing National Sliding Centre	2-man Official Training Heat 5	Finished
	Yanqing National Sliding Centre	2-man Official Training Heat 6	Finished
	Yanqing National Sliding Centre	2-man Heat 1	Finished
	Yanqing National Sliding Centre	2-man Heat 2	Finished
	Yanqing National Sliding Centre	2-man Heat 3	Finished
	Yanqing National Sliding Centre	4-man Official Training Heat 1	Finished
After Heat 1	Yanqing National Sliding Centre	4-man Official Training Heat 2	Finished
	Yanqing National Sliding Centre	4-man Official Training Heat 3	Finished
After Heat 3	Yanqing National Sliding Centre	4-man Official Training Heat 4	Finished
	Yanqing National Sliding Centre	4-man Official Training Heat 5	Finished
After Heat 5	Yanqing National Sliding Centre	4-man Official Training Heat 6	Finished
	Yanqing National Sliding Centre	4-man Heat 1	Finished
	Yanqing National Sliding Centre	4-man Heat 2	Finished
	Yanqing National Sliding Centre	4-man Heat 3	Finished
	Yanqing National Sliding Centre	4-man Heat 4	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

Athlete:

Historical Results

Olympic Games
Rank	Event	Year	Location	Result
23	4-man	2018	PyeongChang, KOR	00:02:29.490
26	4-man	2014	Sochi, RUS	00:02:50.710
27	2-man	2018	PyeongChang, KOR	00:02:30.710

Hobbies:

Playing football with his son, watching movies, spending time with his family, fishing, playing petanque.

Occupation:

Athlete, Fitness trainer

Family:

Son, Dayron.

Languages spoken:

Portuguese

Club name:

Clube Paulista de Desportos no Gelo

Coach:

National: Bryan Berghorn (USA)
Cristiano Paes (BRA)

Position style:

Crew

Other sports:

Athletics: Competed in the decathlon and the 110m hurdles before switching to bobsleigh. Personal Best, decathlon: 6,535 points.

Debut:

2014 World Cup in Lake Placid (Four-man - DNF)

National team:

2013

Start:

Took up the sport in 2013 at the encouragement of his coach Fabiano Gilberto. "I did a selection trial without knowing what bobsleigh was." (Info 2018)

Hero:

Football player Ronaldo (BRA), 2002 World Cup champion and winner of two Ballon d'Or.

Cuban hurdler Dayron Robles (CUB), 2008 Olympic champion in the 100m hurdles, 2010 World Indoor champion. (Info 2018)

Philosophy:

"You must not set limits. The more you dream, the further you will go." (Info 2018)

Milestones

In three starts at two Olympic Winter Games (2014, 2018), his best is 23rd in the four-man at PyeongChang 2018.

Made his World Championships debut in 2016 (27th in two-man, 23rd in four-man).

Has two top-20 finishes in seven World Cup starts between 2014 and 2017, his best being 13th in four-man in 2016 (Lake Placid).

Social Media

Legend

:: Gold Medal Event

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