Clarissa Chun

Clarissa Chun ( born August 27, 1981 in Honolulu, Hawaii) is an American wrestler. It was 2008 in Tokyo world champion in the weight class up to 48 kg body weight.

Career

Clarissa Chun was born as the daughter of a Chinese father and a Japanese mother in Honolulu. In Kapolei to Honolulu resident, she started seven years at YBA Judo Club Hawaii with the ring sport. She also was active at that time even with swimming and also played water polo. She attended at the time the Roosevelt High School in Honolulu and so came to wrestle. At first she started there because there is a female opponent in Boyteam. In 1998, she was Hawaiian champion in the weight category to 44 kg body weight (bw ).

In order to progress in their sport further in 1999, she moved to Marshall in Missouri over and attended the Missouri Valley College. In 2002, she moved to Colorado Springs and has been training at this time Keith Wilson and Drew Lawrence. It belongs to the Ringer Sunkist Kids Club.

In 2000, she first attended the U.S. Championships and came in the weight class up to 46 kg body weight to 2nd place behind Patricia Miranda. This year, then began her international career with an 8th place at the Junior World Cup in Nantes and a 2nd place behind Maria del Los Angeses Barraza from Mexico at the Pan American Championships in Cali. Both times again in the class to 46 kg. It was also the same used in this Jahra at the World Championships for seniors in Sofia but had to pay dearly, because she came there without a win only to 13th place.

2001 Clarissa Chun was the first time U.S. champion and students reached with the U.S. Championship Seniorinen the 3rd place. At the Junior World Championship 2001 in Martigny / Switzerland, it improved in the class to 46 kg on the 5th Place. Junior World Champion in her weight class was the German Brigitte Wagner.

In 2002 Clarissa Chun arrived at the U.S. Championships only to 4th place, but was still used at the Pan American Games in Maracaibo. In the weight category up to 48 kg, it reached it behind Mayelis Caripa Castillo from Venezuela and Peru Ileni Barrero from the 3rd place.

In 2003 and 2004 she won at the U.S. championship in the class up to 48 kg each behind Patricia Miranda 2nd place. At this wrestler they also failed in the U.S. qualification for the Olympic Games in Athens, where competitions were held in the women's rings for the first time.

In the years 2005 to 2007 Clarissa Chun came with no international championships for use, even though it was first time in 2006 became U.S. champion in the class to 48 kg. In 2008 she came to the U.S. championship only to 4th place, but then managed at the Olympia excretion ( Trials ) the surprise and won there before Patricia Miranda. Thus, they represented the United States at the Olympic Games in Beijing in the class to 48 kg. In Beijing she won over Sofia Mattsson of Sweden and Vanessa Boubryemm from France but was defeated multiple World Champions Chiharu Icho of Japan ( 2:4 techn. Dots) and Irina Melnik - Merleni from Ukraine ( 1:6 techn. Dots) and got away with it on the 5th Place.

They then went in the two months after the Olympic Games in Beijing discharged World Championships in Tokyo at the start. There, she succeeded in the weight class up to 48 kg BW of the biggest success of her career, because she was with wins over Demet Kaya, Turkey, Tsai Pai- Jing, Taiwan, Makiko Sakamoto, Japan and Jyldie Echimasa - Turtbajew from Kazakhstan World Champion.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, BW = body weight)

  • 2000 1st place, " Dave Schultz Memorial" in Colorado Springs, to 46 kg body weight;
  • 2000 8th Place, Junior World Championships in Nantes, up to 46 kg body weight, winner: Kanako Miki, Japan before Kararyna Zalewska, Poland and Irina Melnik - Merleni, Ukraine;
  • 2000, 2nd place, Pan American championships in Cali, to 46 kg kG, behind Maria de los Angeles Marraza, Mexico, before Ingrid Medrado Cuellar, El Salvador and Mayelis Caripa Castillo, Venezuela;
  • 2000 15th Place, WM in Sofia, up to 46 kg body weight, winner Irina Melnik - Merleni before Inga Karamtschakowa, Russia & Carol Huynh, Canada;
  • 2001 1st place, Klippan Ladies Open, up to 46 kg body weight;
  • 2001 5th Place, Junior World Championships in Martigny / Switzerland, to 46 kg kG, behind Brigitte Wagner, Germany, Myrian Prost, France, Yuuri Funatsu, Japan and Natalya Groschewa, Russia;
  • 2001, 2nd place, Pan American Cup in Santo Domingo, up to 46 kg body weight, behind Mayelis Caripa Castillo, before Ingrid Medrado Cuellar and Maylene E. Desena, Dom. Rep.;
  • 2001, 4th place, World Cup in Levallois, up to 46 kg body weight, after Cui Ying, China, Misato Shimizu, Japan and Inga Karamtschakowa;
  • 2002, 3rd place, Pan American Championships in Maracaibo, to 48 kg body weight, behind Mayelis Caripa Castillo and Ileni Barrera, Peru, before Daniela Polzin, Brazil;
  • 2003, 4th place, Klippan Ladies Open, to 48 kg body weight, behind Irina Melnik - Merleni, Brigitte Wagner u Patricia Miranda, USA;
  • 2003, 2nd place, Sunkist Open in Colorado Springs, to 48 kg body weight;
  • 2004, 4th place, " Dave Schultz " Memorial in Colorado Springs, to 48 kg body weight, behind Patricia Miranda, Brigitte Wagner and Lindsay Belisle, Canada;
  • 2004, 4th place, World Cup in Tokyo, to 48 kg body weight, after Deng Weis Chan, China, Chiharu Icho, Japan and Carol Huynh, Canada, before Makiko Sakamoto, Japan;
  • 2004, 4th place, students Championships in Łódź, to 48 kg body weight, behind Momoto Sera, Japan, Iwona Matkowska - Sadowska, Poland and Fani Psatha, Greece;
  • 2004, 2nd place, Sunkist Kids Open in Tempe, Arizona, to 48 kg body weight, behind Carol Huynh and before Angela Mott, Canada;
  • 2005, 2nd Place, New York Athletic Clup - Open, to 48 kg body weight, behind Stefanie Murata, USA, before Carol Huynh and Alana King, Canada;
  • 2005, 1st Place, Sunkist Kids Open in Colorado Springs, to 48 kg body weight, before Alana King, Sara Fulp -Allen, USA & Jerria Medina, Canada;
  • 2006, 2nd place, Klippan Ladies Open, to 48 kg body weight;
  • 2006 1st place, " Vehbi - Emre " Memorial in Istanbul, to 48 kg body weight;
  • 2006 1st place, Sunkist Kids Open in Colorado Springs, to 48 kg body weight, before Sara Fulp -Allen, Liz Short, USA & Ingrid Santos, El Salvador;
  • 2006, 2nd Place, New York Athletic Club Open to 48 kg body weight;
  • 2007 3rd Place, Guelph Open, to 48 kg body weight, behind Carol Huynh & Mary Kelly, USA, before Erica Sharp, Canada;
  • 2007 1st place, Sunkist Kids Open in Colorado Springs, to 48 kg body weight, before Sara Fulp -Allen and Lindsay Rushton, Canada;
  • 2007, 2nd Place, New York Athletic Club Open to 48 kg body weight, behind Carol Huynh, before Sara Fulp -Allen and Lindsay Rushton;
  • 2008, 2nd Place, Guelph Open, to 48 kg body weight, behind Lindsay Rushton and before Alana King;
  • 2008, 2nd place, " Dave Schultz " Memorial in Colorado Springs, to 48 kg behind Sara Fulp -Allen, before Stefanie Murata;
  • 2008, 1st Place, Pan American Championships in Colorado Springs, to 48 kg body weight, before Ingrid Medrado Cuellar, Thatia Jihann Mallqui Peche, Peru and Lindsay Rushton;
  • 2008, 5th place, OS in Beijing, kg to 48 kg, with wins over Sofia Mattsson, Sweden & Vanessa Boubryemm, France & Chiharu Icho defeats against Japan and Irina Melnik - Merleni;
  • 2008, 1st place, World Championships in Tokyo, to 48 kg body weight, with wins over Demet Kaya, Turkey, Tsai Pei- Jing, Taiwan, Makiko Sakamoto and Jyldiz Eschimasa - Turtbajewa, Kazakhstan;
  • 2009, 5th place, World Cup in Taiyuan, up to 48 kg behind Ludmilla Baluschka, Ukraine, Fuyuku Mimura, Japan, Liu Jie, China and Carol Huynh;
  • 2009 1st place, Pan American Championships, to 48 kg before Lindsay Rushton, Canada, Carolina Castillo Hidalgo, Colombia and Ingrid Xiomara Medrano Cuellar, El Salvador

USA Competitions

  • 2000, 2nd Place, United States Championship, up to 46 kg body weight,
  • 2001, 1st Place, United States Student CHAMPIONSHIP. , Up to 46 kg body weight,
  • 2001, 3rd place, United States Championship, up to 46 kg body weight,
  • 2003, 2nd Place, United States Championship, to 48 kg body weight, behind Patricia Miranda
  • 2004, 1st Place, United States Student CHAMPIONSHIP. , To 48 kg body weight,
  • 2004, 2nd Place, United States Championship, to 48 kg body weight, behind Patricia Miranda
  • 2004, 2nd place, U.S. Olympic Trials, to 48 kg body weight, behind Patricia Miranda
  • 2006, 1st Place, United States Championship, to 48 kg body weight,
  • 2007, 3rd place, United States Championship, to 48 kg body weight,
  • 2008, 4th place, United States Championship, to 48 kg body weight,
  • 2008, 1st Place, U.S. Olympic Trials, to 48 kg body weight, before Patricia Miranda

Swell

  • Database of the Institute for Applied Training Science at the University of Leipzig,
  • Journal The Ringer,
  • Website of the U.S. Ringer Association,
  • Website of the Canadian Association Ringer,
  • Website by Clarissa Chun
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