Mārtiņš Rubenis

Mārtiņš Rubenis is a retired Latvian luger, born on 26 September 1978, who competed from 1998 to 2014 and took part in five Olympics. His bronze in the men's singles at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin made him the first Latvian to win a Winter Olympic medal representing the Republic of Latvia rather than the Soviet Union, and he won a second bronze in the team relay at Sochi in 2014. He also won the 1998 World Junior Championship, silver at the 2003 World Championships and bronze in 2004, plus three European team relay medals. After retiring he became coach of the Latvian national luge team, designs sleds as a mechanical engineer, joined the Latvian Olympic Committee, and performs as a DJ in the group Värka Kru.