Melissa Pagnotta
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| Born | September 22, 1988 North York, Ontario, Canada | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 180 cm (5 ft 11 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 64 kg (141 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | Canada | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Taekwondo | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Melissa Pagnotta (born September 22, 1988) is a Canadian taekwondo athlete. She competed for Canada in the women's 67 kg event at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where she was the country's only taekwondo athlete and finished in seventh place.[1][2][3] Pagnotta qualified to the 2016 Summer Olympics by winning a silver medal at the 2016 Pan American Taekwondo Olympic Qualification Tournament in Aguascalientes, Mexico.[4] She achieved success at the 2011 Pan American Games in Guadalajara, Mexico, where she won a gold medal in the women's 67 kg event.[5] Pagnotta won a silver medal at the 2015 World Taekwondo Grand Prix in Moscow, Russia, after losing a close, sudden-death match to South Korea's Oh Hye-ri. Her accolades also include three gold medals from the Commonwealth Taekwondo Championships (2008, 2014, 2017) and four from the Pan American Taekwondo Championships (2005, 2008, 2010, 2014).[6]
Pagnotta was born on September 22, 1988, in North York, Ontario. She began practicing taekwondo at age eight after her father introduced her to a local club, where she grew to enjoy the physical and contact nature of the sport. Pagnotta graduated from Dante Alighieri Academy in Toronto and later attended York University to study kinesiology, but she withdrew after one year to pursue taekwondo full time.[1]