Melissa Pagnotta

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Melissa Pagnotta
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Personal information
Born (1988-09-22) September 22, 1988 (age 37)
North York, Ontario, Canada
Height180 cm (5 ft 11 in)
Weight64 kg (141 lb)
Sport
CountryFlag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada
Sport Taekwondo
Medal record
Women's taekwondo
Representing Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada
Grand Prix
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2015 Moscow 67 kg
Pan American Games
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2011 Guadalajara 67 kg
Commonwealth Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2008 Winnipeg67 kg
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2014 Edinburgh67 kg
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2017 Montreal67 kg
Pan American Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2008 Cagus63 kg
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2010 Monterrey67 kg
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2014 Aguascalientes67 kg
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg2018 Spokane67 kg
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg2021 Cancun67 kg
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg2022 Punta Cana67 kg
Pan American Junior Championships
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg2003 Rio de Janeiro49 kg
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2005 Santa Cruz59 kg

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]

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Early life

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]

Personal life

Pagnotta is of Italian descent; both of her parents emigrated from Italy. [1]

Pagnotta is one of four siblings; she has an older sister, Rosanne, and two younger brothers, Michael and Adriano. [1]

Results

Senior:

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Melissa Pagnotta". Team Canada. Canadian Olympic Committee. Archived from the original on December 23, 2025. Retrieved December 19, 2025.
  2. ↑ Hossain, Asif (May 6, 2016). "Pagnotta named to Team Canada in taekwondo for Rio 2016". Team Canada. Canadian Olympic Committee. Archived from the original on December 19, 2025. Retrieved August 3, 2016.
  3. ↑ "Taekwondo Athlete Nominated for Rio 2016". Team Canada. Canadian Olympic Committee. May 6, 2016. Archived from the original on December 23, 2025. Retrieved December 23, 2025.
  4. ↑ Doorey, Jacqueline (March 11, 2016). "Taekwondo qualifier win earns Melissa Pagnotta spot in Rio Olympics". CBC.ca . Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Archived from the original on December 19, 2025. Retrieved August 4, 2016.
  5. ↑ "Canada's Pagnotta earns taekwondo gold: Pan Am Games". CBC Sports . Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. The Canadian Press. October 17, 2011. Archived from the original on December 19, 2025. Retrieved May 26, 2022.
  6. ↑ "PAGNOTTA, Melissa". Taekwondo Data. Archived from the original on December 23, 2025. Retrieved December 19, 2025.
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