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In a press release the Latvian luger Martins Rubenis announced the retirement agonist.
Thursday 13 March 2014 2 minutes reading time
Rubenis native of Riga, has begun to tread the boards of the international luge since 1998, becoming in the next sixteen seasons the athlete more representative of Latvia.
The thirty-five baltic throughout his career has taken a lot of satisfaction even though you had to measure with the greatest performers in the history of the sled. Rubenis is to be considered a full-fledged athlete from major events, it is no coincidence that after the junior world title in 1998 was followed by two world medals and especially the Olympic bronze medalist in Turin in 2006 which is undoubtedly the highest peak of his career . Also in the team events are not missed medals, two world-class in addition to two gold continental and a month ago in Sochi in his last race of his career with his companions and Eliza Tiruma Sics-Sics was given a beautiful bronze five circles.
In the World Cup, however there has never been better than ninth in the overall standings getting a total of 6 podiums equally distributed between second and third places.
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