Luis Ygnacio Liendo (born November 25, 1980 in Caracas,

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) is an amateur Venezuelan Greco-Roman wrestler, who competes in the men's lightweight category. He won two bronze medals for the 60 kg division at the

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, and at the

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in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Liendo also defeated United States wrestler Joe Betterman for the gold medal in the same division at the

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, earning him a spot on the Venezuelan wrestling team for the Olympics. At age thirty-one, Liendo made his official Olympic debut at the 2012 Summer Olympics in

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, where he competed in the men's 60 kg class. He received a bye for the preliminary round of sixteen match, before losing out to Kazakhstan's Almat Kebispayev, with a three-set technical score (0–1, 2–0, 0–2), and a classification point score of 1–3.

References

External links

Profile – International Wrestling Database

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