Brianna Salinaro

Taekwondo practitioner at Paralympics

Brianna Salinaro (born May 10, 1998) is a 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.

  1. ^ Team USA profile
  2. ^ ESPN
  3. ^ Massapequa Observer

She compete in the K44 -58 kg category.


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