Mario Rodriguez (fencer)

Mario Rodriguez (born 1959), is an American wheelchair fencer.

Mario Rodriguez
Personal information
Born	1959 (age 65–66) Houston, Texas, U.S.
Height	5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)
Sport
Personal coach	Les Stawicki, Michael D'Asaro, Mauro Hamza, Amgad Abd El-Halim Khazbak, Jerry Benson, and others in US and Europe.
Medal record Athletics Various 2002 Austin World Cup Men's épée fencing 2003 Madrid World Cup Men's sabre fencing 2011 Parapan American Games Men's foil fencing

Biography

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]