Nikita Glasnović

Nikita Glasnović (born 17 January 1995) is a Swedish-born Croatian taekwondo practitioner.[4] She represented Sweden at the 2016 Summer Olympics in the 57 kg division, and lost a bronze medal match to Kimia Alizadeh.[2]

Nikita Glasnović

Glasnović at the 2016 Olympics
Personal information
Nationality	Croatian
Born	(1995-01-17) 17 January 1995[1] Malmö, Sweden
Height	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)[2]
Weight	57 kg (126 lb)
Sport
Country	Croatia
Sport	Taekwondo
Event(s)	Featherweight ( –57 kg)
Club	Toigye Taekwondo Club[3]
Coached by	Mario Glasnović (father)[3]
Medal record Representing  Sweden World Championships 2017 Muzu 57 kg European Games 2015 Baku 57 kg European Championships 2016 Montreux 57 kg 2014 Baku 57 kg Representing  Croatia Mediterranean Games 2018 Tarragona 57 kg

Nikita and her younger brother Leon train at the Toigye Taekwondo Club in Malmö, which is run by their father, Mario Glasnovic; she took up taekwondo aged four. She is named after the lead character in Luc Besson's movie La Femme Nikita, and her brother received his name after the protagonist of Léon: The Professional. In 2011, she was selected as Malmö Most Promising Female Athlete of the Year and in 2015 as the Malmö Female Athlete of the Year. She failed to qualify for the 2016 Olympics by a one point at the 2015 Grand Prix final, where she finished fourth, yet she was invited to the Olympics after withdrawal of one of the competitors, Huang Yun-wen. She studied media and communications at Lund University in 2014–15, and rhetorics at Linnaeus University in 2015. In 2016, she enrolled to the art history program at Umea University and to courses in Bosnian, Serbian and Croatian languages and literature at Uppsala University.[3]