Asunción Ocasio Rodríguez (born June 6, 1987) is a Puerto Rican
taekwondo practitioner. Ocasio qualified for the
women's 67 kg class at the
2008 Summer Olympics
The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () and also known as Beijing 2008 (), were an international multisport event held from 8 to 24 August 2008, in Beijing, China. A total of 10,942 athletes from 204 Na ...
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, after placing third from the Pan American Qualification Tournament in
Cali, Colombia. She defeated Greece's
Elisavet Mystakidou
Elisavet "Elli" Mystakidou ( el, Ελλη Μυστακίδου; born 14 August 1977 in Giannitsa) is a Greek taekwondo practitioner and Olympic medalist. She participated in the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens where she earned a silver medal in t ...
and Germany's
Helena Fromm
Helena Fromm (born 5 August 1987 in Oeventrop, West Germany) is a German taekwondo athlete. Representing Germany at the 2007 World Taekwondo Championships in Beijing, China, she won the bronze medal in the welterweight (–67 ...
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. 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.
References
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NBC Olympics Profile
Puerto Rican female taekwondo practitioners
1987 births
Living people
Olympic taekwondo practitioners for Puerto Rico
Taekwondo practitioners at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Pan American Games medalists in taekwondo
Pan American Games bronze medalists for Puerto Rico
Taekwondo practitioners at the 2007 Pan American Games
Medalists at the 2007 Pan American Games
21st-century Puerto Rican women
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