[1] He has been a finalist in five out of eleven World Cup meets throughout his shooting career, and later became the Pan American Games rifle prone champion in 2015, securing him a quota place on the host nation's team for Rio 2016.

[1] Rippel began to shoot rifle at the age of seventeen upon his admission to Agulhas Negras Military Academy in Resende, Rio de Janeiro.

After graduating from the Academy in 1999, Rippel was invited to join the Brazilian Army, where he had undergone basic and infantry training for full-bore military rifle.

In 2003, he started to compete for the Brazilian national team in Olympic small-bore rifle shooting, but put his sporting duties on a six-year adjournment instead to focus on his post-graduate studies and complete the master's degree in military science at the Academy.

[3] Rippel made his international debut at the 2012 ISSF World Cup meet in Milan, Italy, finishing thirty-fourth in the 50 m rifle prone with a prelims score of 591.