María Sara Grippoli Galiardo

María Sara Grippoli Gagliardo (born 28 December 2004) is a Uruguayan taekwondo practitioner. She qualified for the 2024 Summer Olympics and was named her country's flag bearer. She is the first Olympic taekwondo practitioner from Uruguay.

Biography Grippoli learned taekwondo at the Lee Academy aged five, but did not begin fighting competitively until 2016. Her two sisters are taekwondo practitioners as well. By June 2023, she was ranked 48th globally in her category. That month, she competed at the World Taekwondo Championships and placed 17th in her division. She then won bronze at the Argentina Open in September 2023 and competed at the Pan American Games, ultimately placing fifth after losing the bronze medal match. In 2024, she won bronze medals at the Pan American Championships and at the Rio Open tournament. She became the first Olympic taekwondo practitioner in Uruguayan history and was chosen her country's flag bearer at the opening ceremony.

Grippoli studies engineering at the Universidad de la Empresa on a scholarship.