Mario Rodriguez (fencer)
| Mario Rodriguez | ||||||||||||||||||
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Houston, Texas, U.S. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m) | |||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Fencing | |||||||||||||||||
| Personal coach | Les Stawicki, Michael D'Asaro, Mauro Hamza, Amgad Abd El-Halim Khazbak, Jerry Benson, and others in US and Europe. | |||||||||||||||||
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Mario Rodriguez (born 1959), is an American wheelchair fencer.
Biography
Rodriguez was born in
Warsaw, Poland. In 2010 he was a gold medalist at the North American Cup for sabre and in 2011 won another gold for foil at the Parapan American Games.[1] Before he became a paralympian he served as a representative of the United States Air Force as a Russian translator in Crete for four years.[2]
References
- ^ United States Olympic Committee. Archived from the originalon February 28, 2014. Retrieved July 16, 2013.
- ^ a b "Air Force Veteran Shares Wisdom With Young Paralympians". United States Department of Defense. Archived from the original on July 21, 2010. Retrieved March 22, 2014.
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