Dominique Bosshart

{{short description|Canadian taekwondo practitioner}}

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|birth_place=Morges, Vaud, Switzerland

|birth_date={{birth date and age|1977|10|7}}

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{{MedalSport | Women's Taekwondo}}

{{MedalCountry | {{CAN}} }}

{{MedalCompetition|Olympic Games}}

{{MedalBronze| 2000 Sydney | Heavyweight }}

{{MedalCompetition|World Championships}}

{{MedalSilver|1999 Edmonton|Heavyweight}}

{{MedalCompetition|Pan American Games}}

{{MedalBronze| 1995 Mar del Plata | Heavyweight}}

{{MedalBronze| 1999 Winnipeg | Heavyweight}}

}}

Dominique Bosshart (born October 7, 1977){{cite web |title=Dominique BOSSHART - Olympic Taekwondo {{!}} Canada |url=https://www.olympic.org/dominique-bosshart |website=International Olympic Committee |access-date=16 March 2021 |language=en |date=14 March 2021}} is a Canadian taekwondo athlete.

She was Canada's only taekwondo competitor during the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, where she won a bronze medal in the heavyweight division (+ 67 kg).{{cite web |title=Dominique Bosshart kicks to bronze in taekwondo {{!}} CBC Sports |url=https://www.cbc.ca/sports/dominique-bosshart-kicks-to-bronze-in-taekwondo-1.245947 |website=CBC |access-date=16 March 2021}} She competed in the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens but did not medal.

Bosshart began studying taekwondo at age 13, at the urging of her brother. At age 15, she moved from living with her parents in Landmark, Manitoba to living on her own in Winnipeg in order to train with Master Joo Kang at Kang's Taekwondo Academy.

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