Rubén Rézola (No. 6) at the Rio Olympics Men's K1 200m heat
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Full name | Rubén Oscar Voisard Rézola | ||||||||||||||||
Nationality | Argentina | ||||||||||||||||
Born |
Santa Fe, Argentina |
21 April 1991 ||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.74 m (5 ft 8 1⁄2 in) | ||||||||||||||||
Weight | 82 kg (181 lb) | ||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Canoeing | ||||||||||||||||
Event(s) | Sprint canoe | ||||||||||||||||
Club | Asociacion Nautica Reserva Natural |
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Coached by | Damian Dossena | ||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Rubén Oscar Voisard Rézola (born April 21, 1991 in Santa Fe, Argentina) is an Argentine sprint canoeist. He won the gold medal in the men's kayak doubles (200 m) at the 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto, Canada and silver medal in the men's kayak doubles (200 m) at the 2011 Pan American Games in Guadalajara, Mexico, earning him a spot on the Argentine team for the Olympics. Voisard is also a member of the canoe and kayak team for Argentina's Natural Reserve Boating Association (Spanish: Asociacion Nautica Reserva Natural), and is coached and trained by Damian Dossena.
Voisard represented Argentina at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, where he competed in the men's K-2 200 metres. Voisard and his partner Miguel Correa finished fifth in the final by four hundredths of a second (0.04) ahead of the Australian pair Jesse Phillips and Stephen Bird, with a time of 35.271 seconds.