Clarisse Agbegnenou

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Clarisse Agbegnenou, 2014

Clarisse Agbegnenou (born October 25, 1992 in Rennes ) is a French judoka . It started for France at the 2015 European Games and 2016 at the Olympic Games . In 2016 she was runner-up in the Olympics, in 2014 and from 2017 to 2019 she won four world championship titles.

Career

She took part in the European Judo Championships in 2012 in Chelyabinsk and started there in the class up to 63 kilograms. She reached the semi-finals and met Yarden Gerbi from Israel. She lost the competition and won the bronze medal by beating Ramila Yusubova from Azerbaijan. A year later, she won the European Championship title at the 2013 European Judo Championships in Budapest after beating Marta Labasina from Russia in the final . A little more than four months later, she missed winning the world championship title in the class up to 63 kilograms at the 2013 Judo World Championships in Rio de Janeiro . In the final she had to admit defeat to Yarden Gerbi.

In the 2014 European Judo Championships in Pérols , a suburb of Montpellier , she was able to defend their European title after the Slovenian in the final Tina Trstenjak defeated, and almost four months later she was at the 2014 World Judo Championships in Traktor Ice Arena in Chelyabinsk World Champion . In the final she defeated Yarden Gerbi from Israel. For France, she took part in the 2015 European Games in Baku and thus also in the 2015 European Judo Championships . She reached the final but could not prevail against the German Martyna Trajdos and only won silver. In the team competition she won the European Games together with Laëtitia Blot , Annabelle Euranie , Marie-Ève ​​Gahié and Madeleine Malonga .

At the Judo World Championships 2015 in the Alau Ice Palace in Astana , she reached the final. There she had to admit defeat to Tina Trstenjak from Slovenia and could not defend her world title. Although she did not take part in the Judo European Championships in 2016 , she was nominated by the Comité National Olympique et Sportif Français for the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro and was allowed to do so there in the light middleweight division , i.e. in the class up to 63 kilograms. After she was able to prevail against Büşra Katipoğlu , Anicka van Emden and Miku Tashiro , she faced Tina Trstenjak in the final and had to admit defeat to her as at the 2015 World Championships. For her second place she received the Knight's Cross of the Ordre national du Mérite on November 30, 2016 .

In 2017, she finished fifth at the European Championships . In the final of the world championships in Budapest she defeated Tina Trstenjak and won her second title after 2014. In 2018 she met Trstenjak again in the European Championship final and Agbegnenou won again. Five months later she defeated the Japanese Miku Tashiro in the final of the World Championships in Baku and defended her title from the previous year. Agbegnenou also reached the final of the European Championships held in Minsk as part of the 2019 European Games and won the title by defeating Britain's Alice Schlesinger . Two months later she won the final against Miku Tashiro at the World Championships in Tokyo and thus her third world title in a row.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Match balance at judoinside.com
  2. ↑ Décret du 30 November 2016 portant promotion et nomination. In: legifrance.gouv.fr. November 30, 2016, accessed February 21, 2020 (French).
personal data
SURNAME Agbegnenou, Clarisse
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French judoka
DATE OF BIRTH October 25, 1992
PLACE OF BIRTH Rennes , France