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| Personal information | |
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| Born | September 22, 1988 North York, Ontario, Canada |
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| Country |  Canada |
| Sport | Taekwondo |
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Melissa Pagnotta (born September 22, 1988) is a Canadian taekwondo practitioner. She competed for Canada at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, [1] becoming the first Ontario representative in that sport. Pagnotta qualified to the 2016 Olympics by winning Silver at the Pan Am Olympic Qualification event in Aguascalientes, Mexico. [2] She saw success at the 2011 Pan American Games in Guadalajara, Mexico, where she won gold in the lightweight (under 67 kg) class. [3] Pagnotta won a silver at the 2015 World Grand Prix in Moscow losing a close match to Korea in sudden death. She has won the Pan Am Championships 4x (2005, 2008, 2010, and 2014) and Commonwealth Championships 3x (2008, 2014, and 2017).