Brianna Salinaro
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| Born | 10 May 1998 Massapequa, New York, United States | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Paralympic athletics Para taekwondo | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Brianna Salinaro (born May 10, 1998) is a track and field athlete and former taekwondo practitioner who represented the United States at the 2020 Summer Paralympics.[1] She has cerebral palsy[2] and is from Massapequa, New York. She started Taekwondo at age 9 and in 2016 became the first female para Taekwondo athlete to represent the United States at an international tournament.[3]
She was the only Para Taekwondo athlete to compete at the 2020 Paralympic games with Cerebral Palsy. All of Brianna's competitors were upper amputee athletes. She compete in the K44 -58 kg category.
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- 1998 births
- Living people
- American women sprinters
- American female taekwondo practitioners
- Paralympic taekwondo practitioners for the United States
- Sportspeople with cerebral palsy
- Sportspeople from Massapequa, New York
- Taekwondo practitioners at the 2020 Summer Paralympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2023 Parapan American Games
- Medalists at the 2023 Parapan American Games
- Parapan American Games medalists in athletics (track and field)
- Parapan American Games gold medalists for the United States
- 21st-century American sportswomen
- American martial arts biography stubs
- North American taekwondo biography stubs
- Paralympics stubs
- American sprinter stubs