Brianna Salinaro

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 -58kg category.


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