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
File:Ruben Limardo Masters epee 2012 n01.jpg
Limardo at the Masters épée 2012
Personal information
Born (1985-08-03) August 3, 1985 (age 38)
Bolivar City, Bolívar, Venezuela
Height 175 cm (5 ft 9 in)
Sport
Club Piast Gliwice
Medal record
Men’s Fencing
Representing  Venezuela
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2012 London Épée
World Championships
Silver medal – second place 2013 Budapest Epée
Pan American Championships
Gold medal – first place 2015 Santiago Épée
Silver medal – second place 2015 Santiago Team Épée
Pan American Games
Gold medal – first place 2007 Rio de Janeiro Épée
Gold medal – first place 2015 Toronto Épée
Silver medal – second place 2007 Rio de Janeiro Team épée
Silver medal – second place 2011 Guadalajara Épée
Silver medal – second place 2011 Guadalajara Team épée
Central American and Caribbean Games
Gold medal – first place 2010 Mayagüez Team épée
Silver medal – second place 2006 Cartagena Team épée
Silver medal – second place 2010 Mayagüez Épée
Bronze medal – third place 2006 Cartagena Épée

Rubén Dario Limardo Gascón (born August 3, 1985) is an épée 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

Born in Ciudad Bolívar, 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] He 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]

Fencing Background

Limardo began fencing at the age of seven, encouraged by an uncle who had discovered the sport in Hungary.[5] He was originally a right-handed foil fencer before injury caused him to switch both hand and weapon.[5]

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