Nikita Glasnović
 Glasnović at the 2016 Olympics | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | Croatian |
| Born | 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 | Featherweight ( –57 kg) |
| Club | Toigye Taekwondo Club[3] |
| Coached by | Mario Glasnović (father)[3] |
Medal record | |
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 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]
References
- ^ Nikita Glasnović. Swedish Olympic Committee
- ^ a b "Nikita Glasnovic". rio2016.com. Archived from the original on 19 August 2016. Retrieved 17 August 2016.
- ^ a b c Nikita Glasnović. nbcolympics.com
- ^ "OS: Nikita väntar på motståndarens misstag". Sveriges Radio. 23 June 2016. Retrieved 20 August 2016.
External links
- Nikita Glasnović at TaekwondoData.com
- Nikita Glasnović at Olympics.com
- Nikita Glasnović at Olympedia
- Nikita Glasnović at the Swedish Olympic Committee (in Swedish)
