Mārtiņš Rubenis

Mārtiņš Rubenis

250px Mārtiņš Rubenis in 2013
Medal record
Men's Luge
Representing Latvia
Olympic Games
	2006 Turin	Men's singles
	2014 Sochi	Mixed team
World Championships
	2003 Sigulda	Men's singles
	2003 Sigulda	Mixed team
	2004 Nagano	Men's singles
European Championships
	2008 Cesana	Mixed team
	2010 Sigulda	Mixed team
	2014 Sigulda	Mixed team
	2006 Winterberg	Mixed team

Mārtiņš Rubenis (born 26 September 1978 in Riga) is a former Latvian luger who competed between 1998 and 2014. He won the bronze medal at the men's singles event at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, becoming the first Latvian (i.e. representing Republic of Latvia) to win a medal at the Winter Olympics and the only one from Latvia at the 2006 Winter Olympics. He won his second bronze medal at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi in the Team Relay event.

Rubenis also won the gold medal at the 1998 World Junior Championships, as well as the silver and bronze medals at the 2003 and 2004 World Championships respectively. He also won three medals in the Team Relay event at the FIL European Luge Championships with a golds in 2008 and 2010, and a bronze in 2006.

Mārtiņš retired after the 2014 Winter Olympics. He announced his retirement after the men's event, in which he finished 10th, yet a few days later Rubenis won a bronze medal being a part of the Latvian Relay Team.

He is a well-known practitioner of Falun Gong.

Martins was a member of djs group Värka Kru . His DJ alias was DJ MR10, DJ Betons, DJ Fotu.

Awards

• 2011 - The Three - Star Order [1]
• 2014 - The Cross of Recognition[2]

Achievements

• 1998 – 1st place in World Junior championship
• 2000 – 11th place in World championship
• 2000 – 18th place Overall World Cup
• 2001 – 29th place in World championship
• 2001 – 25th place Overall World Cup
• 2002 – 15th place in European championship
• 2002 – 34th place Overall World Cup
• 2003 – 2nd place in World championship – team competition
• 2003 – 2nd place in World championship
• 2003 – 18th place Overall World Cup
• 2004 – 3rd place in World championship
• 2004 – 13th place Overall World Cup
• 2004 – 12th place Overall Challenge Cup
• 2005 – 11th place in World championship
• 2005 – 11th place Overall World Cup
• 2005 – 9th place Overall Challenge Cup
• 2006 – 3rd place in European championship – team competition
• 2006 – 7th place in European championship

Olympic game results

• 1998 – Nagano 14th place
• 2002 – Salt Lake City after crash – DNF
• 2006 – Torino 3rd place
• 2010 – Vancouver 11th place
• 2014 - Sochi 3rd place Team Relay

References

• Extended profile with photo and all notable podium finishes (Latvian)
• FIL-Luge profile
• Fuzilogik Sports – Winter Olympic results – Men's luge
• Hickoksports.com results on Olympic champions in luge and skelton.
• Hickok sports information on World champions in luge and skeleton.
• List of European luge champions(German)
• Lohengrin From Varka Crew Loengrīns no Varka Kru (2010)

Awards
Preceded by Viktors Ščerbatihs	Latvian Men's Sportspersonality of the Year 2006	Succeeded by Viktors Ščerbatihs