Asunción Ocasio

Asunción Ocasio
Personal information
Full name Asunción Ocasio Rodríguez
Nationality  Puerto Rico
Born 6 June 1987
Height 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Weight 66 kg (146 lb)
Sport
Sport Taekwondo
Event(s) 67 kg

Asunción Ocasio Rodríguez (born June 6, 1987) is a Puerto Rican taekwondo practitioner.[1] Ocasio qualified for the women's 67 kg class at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, after placing third from the Pan American Qualification Tournament in Cali, Colombia.[2] She defeated Greece's Elisavet Mystakidou and Germany's Helena Fromm in the first two rounds, before losing out the semi-final match by a unanimous decision to Canada's Karine Sergerie, with a score of 0–2.[3][4] Ocasio automatically qualified for the bronze medal bout, where she narrowly lost Puerto Rico's first ever medal at these Olympic games by Croatia's Sandra Šarić, with a final score of 1–5.[5][6]

References

  1. "Asunción Ocasio". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 28 December 2012.
  2. "WTF Pan American Qualification Tournament Concludes in Success in Cali, Colombia". World Taekwondo Federation. 10 December 2007. Retrieved 28 December 2012.
  3. "Women's 67kg (148 lbs) Semifinals". NBC Olympics. Retrieved 28 December 2012.
  4. Huff, Bob (23 August 2008). "Silver doesn't satisfy Sergerie". Montreal Gazette (Canada.com). Retrieved 28 December 2012.
  5. "Women's 67kg (148 lbs) Bronze Medal". NBC Olympics. Retrieved 28 December 2012.
  6. "Epangue and Saric win bronzes in Women's 67kg taekwondo". SINA. 22 August 2008. Retrieved 28 December 2012.

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