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Birth name | Carolena Jean Carstens Salceda | ||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Winfield, Illinois, US | January 18, 1996||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 57 Kg | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | Panama | ||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Taekwondo | ||||||||||||||||||||
Event | -57 Kg | ||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Updated on 15 August 2017. |
Carolena Jean Carstens Salceda (born January 18, 1996 in Winfield, Illinois, United States) is a taekwondo practitioner representing Panama. She has dual US / Panamanian citizenship through her father and mother respectively,. [1] She used to live in Glen Ellyn, Illinois., [2] but has since moved to Spain. [3]
In 2011, Carstens participated at the Pan American Championships, where she won the silver medal in the youth -52 kg category, losing to the American Deireanne Morales in the final. [4] She subsequently took part in qualification for the 2012 Summer Olympics in November 2011, finishing fourth. [4] She later received one of four wild card entries for the Olympics as the 13th ranked athlete in the -49 kg category, [5] becoming the first Olympic taekwondo athlete from Panama, and the second youngest Olympian in the country's history. [6] She was the youngest athlete at the 2012 Olympics. [1] She lost her first contest 7–2 to an eventual finalist, Spaniard Brigitte Yagüe, and then lost her repechage fight to Mexican Jannet Alegría by the same score. [7]
She competed for Panama at the 2016 Summer Olympics, and was defeated by Raheleh Asemani of Belgium in the first round. [8] She was the flag bearer for Panama during the closing ceremony. [9]
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