Cristiana Corsi

Personal information

Full name

Cristiana Corsi

Nationality

Italy

Born

23 April 1976
Rome, Italy

Died

22 February 2016 (aged 39)
Rome, Italy

Height

1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)

Weight

57 kg (126 lb)

Sport

Taekwondo

Event(s)

57 kg

Club

Centro TDK Roma

Coached by

Park Young-Gil

Medal record

Women's taekwondo

Representing Italy
Summer Universiade
	2003 Daegu	59 kg
European Championships
	2002 Samsun	59 kg
	2004 Lillehammer	59 kg
	2008 Rome	59 kg

Cristiana Corsi (23 April 1976 in Rome – 22 February 2016) was an Italian taekwondo practitioner, who competed in the women's featherweight category. Considered one of Italy's top taekwondo players of her decade, Corsi obtained a total of nine medals in her sporting career, including a gold at the 2002 European Championships in Samsun, Turkey, and a silver in the 59-kg division at the 2003 Summer Universiade in Daegu, South Korea. Corsi was also selected to compete for the Italian taekwondo squad in two editions of the Olympic Games (2000 and 2004), where she obtained a fifth-place finish in the women's featherweight category (57 kg) on each edition. Throughout her sporting career, Corsi trained for Rome Taekwondo Centre (Italian: Centro TDK Roma) in her native Rome under Korean-born head coach and master Park Young-Gil.

Corsi made her official debut at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, where she competed in the women's 57-kg class. She opened her match with a more satisfactory victory over Brazil's Carmen Silva 5–2, before falling behind 1–8 on points to South Korean fighter Jung Jae-eun. Corsi granted herself a chance to compete for the Olympic bronze medal in the repechage, but she narrowly missed it in a 5–6 defeat to the Netherlands' Virginia Lourens, relegating her to fifth position.

Two years later, Corsi became a European champion in Samsun, Turkey under the women's featherweight division (59 kg), after brushing aside her Russian opponent Margarita Mkrtchyan in the final. When South Korea hosted the 2003 Summer Universiade in Daegu, Corsi chased the local favorite Kim Sae-rom for the gold, but her feat was only enough to take the silver medal.

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