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Birth name | Luis Fernando Larrazabal Simon | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | Venezuela | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Caracas, Venezuela | October 10, 1992||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Spouse | Alexia Thermiotis (m. 2021) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Show-jumping | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Olympic finals | 2024 Olympic Games | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
World finals | 2015 Toronto 2023 Santiago | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Luis Fernando Larrazabal (born 10 October 1992 in Caracas, Venezuela) is a Venezuelan Olympic show-jumping rider. He competed at the 2015 Pan American Games and at the 2023 Pan American Games. [1] He won a golden team medal at the 2013 Bolivarian Games, with the Venezuelan team. [2]
He is the second of the three children of Juan Larrazábal and Anabel Simon. In May 2021, he married Venezuelan Alexia María Thermiotis (Princess Iman bint Abdullah sister-in-law). On October 6, 2022, his twins were born; Athina and Alexandros and on June 3, 2024, their third daughter was born; Olympia.
Larrazabal represented Venezuela at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris. He finished 63rd in the individual competition. [3]
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