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