Rubén Limardo

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This name uses Spanish naming customs; the first or paternal family name is Limardo and the second or maternal family name is Gascón.
Rubén Limardo

Limardo at the Masters épée 2012
Personal information
Born (1985-08-03) August 3, 1985
Bolivar City, Bolívar, Venezuela
Sport
Club Piast Gliwice
Medal record
Men’s Fencing
Competitor for  Venezuela
Olympic Games
Gold 2012 London Épée
World Championships
Silver 2013 Budapest Epée
Pan American Games
Gold 2007 Rio de Janeiro Épée
Silver 2007 Rio de Janeiro Team épée
Silver 2011 Guadalajara Épée
Silver 2011 Guadalajara Team épée
Central American and Caribbean Games
Gold 2010 Mayagüez Team épée
Silver 2006 Cartagena Team épée
Silver 2010 Mayagüez Épée
Bronze 2006 Cartagena Épée

Rubén Dario Limardo Gascón (born August 3, 1985 in Ciudad Bolívar) is a male fencer from Venezuela. Limardo won a gold medal for his native country at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the individual épée competition. Five years earlier he won the gold medal in the individual épée competition at the 2007 Pan American Games. His younger brother Francisco also competes in fencing on the international level.

Olympics

Limardo competed for his native country in the 2008 Olympics épée competition, placing 23rd.

Limardo competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London winning a gold medal in the individual épée event at the ExCeL Exhibition Centre on 1 August, two days before his 27th birthday.[1] Limardo won the gold when he defeated Norway's Bartosz Piasecki 15–10 in the men's épée final, winning Venezuela's first ever fencing medal, and Latin America's first Olympic gold medal in épée in 108 years, after Ramón Fonst won the event in 1904.[2]

Limardo earned Venezuela's second gold medal in any Olympic Games with the first being at the 1968 Summer Olympic Games, when Francisco Rodríguez won gold as a boxer in the light flyweight division.[3]

World Fencing Championships Budapest 2013

Limardo won a silver medal on August 8, 2013, at the World Fencing Championships in Budapest, Hungary by beating in semi-finals Swiss Fabian Kauter, number six in the world ranking.[4]

References

  1. ↑ "London Olympics: Venezuela win first gold since 1968". The Times of India. 02-08-2012. Retrieved 02-08-2012. 
  2. ↑ "Venezuela wins first gold since 1968". Reuters. 01-08-2012. Retrieved 02-08-2012. 
  3. ↑ "Fencer Ruben Limardo returns to hero's welcome in Venezuela". NBC Olympics. 07-08-2012. Retrieved 2012-08-20. 
  4. ↑ "Ruben Limardo qualified to World Fencing Championship final". 2013-08-08. Retrieved 2013-08-19. 

External links

Olympic Fencing Champions in Men's Individual Épée


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