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| Born | 10 May 1998 Massapequa, New York, United States | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Paralympic athletics Para taekwondo | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Brianna Salinaro (born May 10, 1998) is a track and field athlete and former taekwondo practitioner who represented the United States at the 2020 Summer Paralympics. [1] She has cerebral palsy [2] and is from Massapequa, New York. She started Taekwondo at age 9 and in 2016 became the first female para Taekwondo athlete to represent the United States at an international tournament. [3]
She was the only Para Taekwondo athlete to compete at the 2020 Paralympic games with Cerebral Palsy. All of Brianna's competitors were upper amputee athletes. She compete in the K44 -58 kg category.
