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Asunción Ocasio

Puerto Rican taekwondo prac*ioner

Asunción Ocasio Rodríguez (born June 6, 1987) is a Puerto Rican taekwondo prac*ioner. Ocasio qualified for the women's 67 kg cl* at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, after placing third from the Pan American Qualification Tournament in Cali, Colombia. 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. 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.

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    External links

    • Asunción Ocasio at TaekwondoData.com
    • NBC Olympics Profile