Nationality Swedish Sport Taekwondo Height 1.75 m | Country Sweden Club Toigye Taekwondo Club Weight 65 kg | |
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Born 17 January 1995 (age 22) ( 1995-01-17 ) Malmö, Sweden Event(s) Featherweight ( –57 kg) Coached by Mario Glasnović (father) Parents Mario Glasnovic, Margita Glasnovic | ||
Nikita Glasnović (born 17 January 1995) is a Swedish taekwondo practitioner of Croatian descent. She represented Sweden at the 2016 Summer Olympics in the 57 kg division, and lost a bronze medal match to Kimia Alizadeh.
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 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.
