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| Born | 1959 (age 63–64) 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.
Rodriguez was born in Houston, Texas. In 1985 a low speed motorcycle accident revealed a malignant tumor in his right hip resulting in resection, removal, and reconstruction that ultimately failed ending in eventual amputation of his right hip & leg or hip-disarticulation/semi-hemipelvectomy in April, 1992. [1] [2] In 2002 and 2003 respectively he won 3 bronze medals in three different world cups in men's category A foil in Austin, Texas, United States; Madrid, Spain; and 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]
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