Asunción Ocasio

Asunción Ocasio
Personal information
Full nameAsunción Ocasio Rodríguez
NationalityPuerto Rican
Born (1987-06-06) 6 June 1987
Boston, Massachusetts
Height1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Weight66 kg (146 lb)
Sport
SportTaekwondo
Event67 kg
Medal record
Representing  Puerto Rico
Pan American Games
2007 Rio de Janeiro-67 kg
Central American and Caribbean Games
2010 Mayaguez-67 kg

Asunción Ocasio Rodríguez (born June 6, 1987) is a Puerto Rican taekwondo practitioner. Ocasio qualified for the women's 67 kg class at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, after placing third from the Pan American Qualification Tournament in Cali, Colombia. She defeated Greece's Elisavet Mystakidou and Germany's Helena Fromm in the first two rounds, before losing out the semi-final match by a unanimous decision to Canada's Karine Sergerie, with a score of 0–2. Ocasio automatically qualified for the bronze medal bout, where she narrowly lost Puerto Rico's first ever medal at these Olympic games by Croatia's Sandra Šarić, with a final score of 1–5.