Carol Huynh

Carol Huynh ( born November 16, 1980 in Hazelton, British Columbia) is a Canadian wrestler. It was 2008 Olympic champion in the weight class up to 48 kg body weight.

Career

Carol Huynh is the daughter of a Vietnamese and a Chinese who immigrated to Canada in the 1970s. The family, Carol Huynh has five siblings, settled with the assistance of an ecclesiastical association in Hazelton. There she attended high school and began together with their siblings with the rings. They belonged to the Hazelton Wrestling Club. From 1998, she attended the Simon Fraser University in Burnaby and Burnaby Mountain Wrestling joined the club at. In 2007 she moved to the University of Calgary and was a member of the University of Calgary Wrestling Club. Your trainers were mainly Paul Ragusa and Leigh Vierling.

Carol Huynh, kinesiology and psychology studied, got married in 2005, Dan Briggs, a former wrestler and a social worker. The couple lives in Calgary.

Carol Huyhn struggling since the beginning of her career with the assets in the lowest weight class (up to 44 kg/46 kg/48 kg body weight (BW ) ), by some excursions into the nächsthöhrere weight class ( to 51 kg ) apart. In the women's style is thereby wrestled only outdoors.

The international career of Carol Huynh began at the Junior World Championship 1999 in Bucharest in the weight class up to 46 kg. She has attended there the 7th Place. Also at the Junior World Championship 2000 in Nantes, it was not possible to achieve even her a top spot, she was there only ninth. But in the same year also launched at the World Championships for seniors in Sofia, where she won a bronze medal at first. The battle for the medal they defeated the French Farah Touchi on points.

In 2001, Carol was the first time Canadian champion Huyhn in the weight class up to 48 kg. This title she won by 2008 a total of seven times. Only in 2003 they had to settle for 3rd place behind Lindsay Belisle and Belinda Chou.

At the 2001 World Championships, held in turn in Sofia, Carol Huynh came with victories over Mayelis Caripa Castillo from Venezuela, Kornelia Tzekowa from Bulgaria and Farah Touchi up in the final battle, in which they faced the multiple world champion Irina Melnik - Merleni from Ukraine and who won this final battle on points for themselves. Winning the Vice World Champion title was for the young Carol Huynh but a great success.

In the coming years, Carol Huynh was not as successful on the international wrestling mat. In 2002 she won at the World Championships in Chalkidis / Greece the 5th place, when she lost after two wins against the Swede Ida Hellström. In 2003, she was not summoned for the World Cup and in 2004 they failed to make it to the Olympic Games in Athens, because they finished only second place in the Canadian Olympic excretion behind Lindsay Belisle.

In 2005, she was at the World Championships in Budapest at the start again. In the weight category up to 48 kg, she won a bronze medal there again. She defeated it in battle for the medal Mayelis Caripa Castillo. In the same year she was also student Weltmeiserin.

In 2006, Carol Huynh only World Champion Chiharu Icho of Japan had at the World Cup in Nagoya against defeated and occupied before Stefanie Murata from the United States to second place. At the World Championships this year in Guangzhou they defeated again Chiharu Icho against and missed with another defeat against Francisca de Paola Martinez from Italy and the fight for the bronze medal and was therefore only on the 5th Place.

The same place they occupied even at the 2007 World Championships in Baku. Here she succumbed after three wins against Irina Melnik - Merleni and fight for a place in the " small final " surprisingly well against Mayelis Caripa Castillo, which they had previously repeatedly defeated ( 6:8 tech. Dots).

In 2008, Carol Huynh won the Canadian Olympic excretion ( Trials ) before Erica Sharp and represented Canada in order for the Beijing Olympics in the weight class up to 48 kg. In Beijing she won against Mariya Stadnik of Azerbaijan, Hyung -Joo of South Korea, Tatjana Bogatschuk from Kazakhstan and in the final battle against Chiharu Icho first time that they. 2-0 rounds and 6:1 techn Points auspunktete safe. They thus won the Olympic gold medal and achieved the greatest success can win an athlete or an athlete at all.

She sat after the Olympic victory continued her career and won the World Cup 2010 in Moscow a bronze medal, which she won in the consolation round of Kristina Daranuza, Ukraine and Iwona Matkowska after a defeat in the semi-final against Hitomi Obara with victories. In 2010 she won at the Commonwealth Games in New Delhi, where she opened the Nirmala Devi Indian woman in the final. In 2011 she missed with a 5th place at the World Championship in Istanbul just a medal.

In 2012 it succeeded once again to win a medal at the Olympic Games in London. With victories over Nguyen Thi Lua, Vietnam and Vanessa Kaladschinskaja, Belarus, Hitomi Obara Sakamoto a defeat and a victory over Isabella Sambou from Senegal, they won a bronze medal.

International success

Notes

  • All competitions in free style
  • OS = The Olympic Games, WM = World Cup

Canadian Championships

  • 2001 1st place, to 48 kg body weight, before Tania Mair and Julie Harris,
  • 2002, 1st Place, to 48 kg body weight, before Julie Harris & Tania Mair
  • 2003, 3rd place, up to 48 kg body weight, behind Lindsay Belisle and Belinda Chou
  • 2004, 1st Place, to 48 kg body weight, before Angela Mott and Amber McCrystal
  • 2005, 1st Place, to 48 kg body weight, before Alana King and Miranda Dick
  • 2006 1st place, to 48 kg body weight, before Alana King, & Lindsay Rushton,
  • 2007 1st place, to 48 kg, above Lindsay Rushton
  • 2008, 1st Place, to 48 kg

Olympic Trials

  • 2004, 2nd place, up to 48 kg body weight, behind Lindsay Belisle
  • 2008, 1st Place, to 48 kg body weight, before Erica Sharp

Swell

  • Database of the Institute for Applied Training Science at the University of Leipzig,
  • Journal The Ringer,
  • Website of the Canadian Association Ringer,
  • Website of the U.S. Ringer Association,
  • Website " sports123.com "
  • Website of Carol Huynh

Pictures of Carol Huynh

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