Clarissa Chun

Clarissa Chun, 2018

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

Career

Clarissa Chun was born in Honolulu to a Chinese father and a Japanese mother. Living in Kapolei near Honolulu, she started wrestling at the YBA Judo Club Hawaii when she was seven. At that time she was also active in swimming and also played water polo. She attended Roosevelt High School in Honolulu and got into wrestling. At first she started there due to the lack of female opponents in the boy team. In 1998 she became the Hawaiian champion in the weight class up to 44 kg body weight (KG).

In order to advance in her sport, she moved to Marshall , Missouri in 1999 and attended Missouri Valley College there. In 2002 she went to Colorado Springs and has been training with Keith Wilson and Drew Lawrence since then . She belongs to the Sunkist Kids wrestling club .

In 2000 she took part in the US championships for the first time and came in the weight class up to 46 kg in 2nd place behind Patricia Miranda . In this year her international career began with an 8th place at the Junior World Championship 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 up to 46 kg. She was also used at the World Championships for Senior Women in Sofia that year, but had to pay hardship there, because she only came in 13th place without a win.

In 2001 Clarissa Chun became the first US student champion and reached 3rd place in the US senior women championship. At the Junior World Championship 2001 in Martigny / Switzerland she improved to 5th place in the class up to 46 kg. The German Brigitte Wagner became the junior world champion in her weight class .

In 2002 Clarissa Chun came in the US championship only on the 4th place, but was used in the Pan American Games in Maracaibo . In the weight class up to 48 kg, she achieved 3rd place behind Mayelis Caripa Castillo from Venezuela and Ileni Barrero from Peru .

In 2003 and 2004 she finished 2nd behind Patricia Miranda in the US championship in the class up to 48 kg. On this wrestler she also failed in the US elimination for the Olympic Games in Athens, where competitions in women's wrestling were held for the first time.

In the years 2005 to 2007 Clarissa Chun was not used in any international championships, although in 2006 she was the first US champion in the class up to 48 kg. In 2008 she only came 4th at the US championship, but then managed the surprise at the Olympic Trials and won there ahead of Patricia Miranda. She represented the United States at the Olympic Games in Beijing in the class up to 48 kg. In Beijing she won over Sofia Mattsson from Sweden and Vanessa Boubryemm from France , but then lost to the multiple world champions Chiharu Ichō from Japan (2: 4 technical points) and Irina Melnik-Merleni from Ukraine (1: 6 technical points) and came in 5th place.

Clarissa Chun, 2014

It then also competed at the World Championships in Tokyo two months after the Olympic Games in Beijing . There she achieved the greatest success of her career in the weight class up to 48 kg, because she became world champion with victories over Demet Kaya, Turkey , Tsai Pai-Jing, Taiwan , Makiko Sakamoto , Japan and Jyldie Echimasa-Turtbajew from Kazakhstan .

International success

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

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

USA competitions

• 2000, 2nd place, USA championship, up to 46 kg body weight,
• 2001, 1st place, USA student championship, up to 46 kg body weight,
• 2001, 3rd place, USA championship, up to 46 kg KG,
• 2002, 4th place, USA championship, up to 48 kg kg,
• 2003, 1st place, USA student championship, up to 48 kg kg,
• 2003, 2nd place, USA Championship, up to 48 kg KG, behind Patricia Miranda ,
• 2004, 1st place, USA student championship, up to 48 kg body weight,
• 2004, 2nd place, USA Championship, up to 48 kg KG, behind Patricia Miranda,
• 2004, 2nd place, USA-Olympia-Trials, up to 48 kg KG, behind Patricia Miranda,
• 2006, 1st place, USA championship, up to 48 kg body weight,
• 2007, 3rd place, USA Championship, up to 48 kg KG,
• 2008, 4th place, USA Championship, up to 48 kg KG,
• 2008, 1st place, USA-Olympia-Trials, up to 48 kg KG, in front of Patricia Miranda

swell

• Database of the Institute for Applied Training Sciences at the University of Leipzig,
• Trade journal Der Ringer ,
• US Wrestling Association website,
• Canadian Wrestling Association website,
• Clarissa Chun's website

Web links

• Portrait of Clarissa Chun in engl. Language ( Memento of November 3, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
• Clarissa Chun's website ( Memento from March 17, 2011 in the Internet Archive )