Melissa Pagnotta
Canadian taekwondoin
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. Pagnotta qualified to the 2016 Summer Olympics by winning a silver medal at the 2016 Pan American Taekwondo Olympic Qualification Tournament in Aguascalientes, Mexico. 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. 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).
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