Cha Kwang-su

Cha Kwang-su (born February 25, 1979 ) is a former North Korean wrestler . In 2005 he was Asian champion in the Greco-Roman style bantamweight .

Career

Nothing is known about the personal circumstances of Cha Kwang-su. His international wrestling career began in 2002 when he took part in the Asian Games in Busan . He started there in the featherweight in Greco-Roman style and took 9th place. In 2004 he started in Tashkent at an Olympic qualification tournament, but only came 10th in the featherweight division. This place was not enough for authorization to start at the Olympic Games in Athens .

In 2005 he was then Asian bantamweight champion in Wuhan ahead of Im Dae-won from South Korea and Mukesh Chatri from India . He also won a medal at the 2006 Asian Games in Doha , the bronze one. The winner there was Jiao Hua Feng from the People's Republic of China ahead of Jassin Amiri from Iran .

At the Asian Championships in 2007 in Bishkek and in 2008 in Jeju / South Korea, Cha Kwang-su reached the final, in which he was defeated both times against the exceptional wrestler Hamid Soryan Reihanpour from Iran. In 2008 he took part in the Olympic Games in Beijing . But there he lost his first bantamweight fight against Jagniel Hernandez from Cuba . Since this did not reach the final, he was eliminated and only came in 15th place.

Then he ended his international wrestling career.

International success

year	space	competition	Weight class	Results
2002	9.	Asia Games in Busan	feather	Winner: Kang Kyung-il , South Korea ahead of Dilschod Aripow , Uzbekistan
2004	10.	Olympic qualification tournament in Tashkent	feather	Winner: Nurlan Koischaiganow, Kazakhstan ahead of Davor Štefanek , Serbia
2004	5.	Asian Championship in Alma-Ata	Bantam	behind Asset Imanbayev, Kazakhstan, Im Dae-won, South Korea, Hassan Rangraz, Iran and Akbar Kusiev, Uzbekistan
2005	1.	Asian Championship in Wuhan	Bantam	ago Im Dae-won, Mukesh Chatri, India and Singo Hirai, Japan
2006	2.	Asian Championship in Alma-Ata	Bantam	behind Lee Jung-baek , South Korea, in front of Hamid Banitamin, Iran and Akbar Kusiev
2006	3.	Asia Games in Doha	Bantam	behind Jiao Feng, China and Jassin Amiri, Iran
2007	2.	Asian Games in Bishkek	Bantam	behind Hamid Soryan Reihanpour, Iran, in front of Lee Jung-baek, South Korea and Eldar Hafisow, Uzbekistan
2008	2.	Asian Championship in Jeju / South Korea	Bantam	behind Hamid Soryan Reihanpour, in front of Kohei Hasegawa , Japan and Ermek Kuketow, Kazakhstan
2008	15th	OS in Beijing	Bantam	after losing to Jagniel Hernandez, Cuba

Explanations

• all competitions in Greco-Roman style
• OS = Olympic Games
• Bantam weight, weight class up to 55 kg, feather weight, up to 60 kg body weight

swell

• Trade journal Der Ringer
• "Foeldeak Wrestling Database" website

Web links

• Cha Kwang-su in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Cha is the family name here, Kwang-su is the first name.