Ramon Martinez Gion | |||||
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Personal information | |||||
Full name | Ramon Renaldo Martinez Gion | ||||
Nationality | Dutch | ||||
Born | Amsterdam, Netherlands | September 12, 1990||||
Height | 1.97 m (6 ft 6 in) | ||||
Weight | 85 kg (187 lb) | ||||
Spike | 345 cm (136 in) | ||||
Block | 325 cm (128 in) | ||||
Volleyball information | |||||
Position | Outside hitter/Reception | ||||
Current club | ![]() | ||||
Number | 13 | ||||
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Ramon Renaldo Martinez Gion (Born September 12, 1990 in Amsterdam) is a professional Dutch volleyball player, currently playing for Draisma Dynamo Volleyball.
His parents are Gabriel Martinez Gion and Simone Seegers. He has played in the Netherlands, Belgium and German national competition, with some successes like winning the National Cup in the 2011-2012 season with Landstede Volleyball Netherlands A-League.
Ramon has played for VC Omniworld, VVH, VC Allvo, Landstede Volleyball, Prefaxis Menen and Chemie Volley Mitteldeutschland volleyball clubs. He started playing volleyball at age 12 after a lesson at school. Ramon worked his way up to the highest leagues through athletic and dynamic volleyball practice. During his time at the professional level with the Landstede Volleyball Club Ramon has won 2 national titles, 2 super cup titles, and 2 national cup titles. He was also voted as best player in season 2013/2014. Ramon is selected on the national long list of Holland existing out of 22 players.
At the beginning of Ramon’s professional career he already stated his sexuality and did various interviews for dutch media representing the LGBTQ community giving it a voice in the world of professional sports. On national coming out day (11 October 2012) Ramon helped by raising the rainbow flag over the city hall of Zwolle. While being the first openly homosexual volleyball player in The Netherlands he continued representing LGBTQ in his international career. Resulting in being the first openly gay professional athlete in Belgium France and Greece. Ramon was nominated for the OUT d’or in 2019 and to be ambassador of the 15th Paris International Sports Tournament hosted by FSGL.
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