Vanessa Fernanda Chalá Minda (born 13 March 1990)[1] is an Ecuadorian judoka. She is a gold medalist at the South American Games and a two-time gold medalist at the Pan American Judo Championships. She is also a bronze medalist at the Pan American Games.
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| Full name | Vanessa Fernanda Chalá Minda | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 13 March 1990 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Occupation | Judoka | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | Ecuador | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Judo | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight class | –70 kg, –78 kg | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Olympic Games | R32 (2020, 2024) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| World Champ. | R16 (2011, 2015, 2019) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Pan American Champ. | 
(2020, 2021) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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| IJF | 1022 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| JudoInside.com | 56494 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Updated on 3 August 2024 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Career
editChalá won one of the bronze medals in the women's 70 kg event at the 2014 Pan American Judo Championships held in Guayaquil, Ecuador.
Chalá won a bronze medal in the women's 78 kg event at the 2018 Pan American Judo Championships held in San José, Costa Rica. In the same year, she won the gold medal in her event at the South American Games held in Cochabamba, Bolivia.[2]
At the 2019 Pan American Games held in Lima, Peru, Chalá won one of the bronze medals in the women's 78 kg event.[3] She defeated Liliana Cárdenas of Mexico in her bronze medal match.[4] She won the gold medal in her event at the 2020 Pan American Judo Championships held in Guadalajara, Mexico.
In 2021, Chalá competed in the women's 78 kg event at the Judo World Masters held in Doha, Qatar.[5] A few months later, she won one of the bronze medals in her event at the 2021 Judo Grand Slam Antalya held in Antalya, Turkey. In April 2021, she won the gold medal in her event at the 2021 Pan American Judo Championships held in Guadalajara, Mexico. In June 2021, she competed in the women's 78 kg event at the World Judo Championships held in Budapest, Hungary where she was eliminated in her first match.
Chalá represented Ecuador at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan.[6] She competed in the women's 78 kg event where she was eliminated in her first match.[7]
She won a bronze medal in her event at both the 2023 Pan American-Oceania Judo Championships held in Calgary, Canada and the 2024 Pan American-Oceania Judo Championships held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Achievements
edit| Year | Tournament | Place | Weight class |
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| 2014 | Pan American Championships | 3rd | −70 kg |
| 2018 | Pan American Championships | 3rd | −78 kg |
| South American Games | 1st | –78 kg | |
| 2019 | Pan American Games | 3rd | –78 kg |
| 2020 | Pan American Championships | 1st | −78 kg |
| 2021 | Pan American Championships | 1st | −78 kg |
| 2023 | Pan American-Oceania Judo Championships | 3rd | −78 kg |
| 2024 | Pan American-Oceania Judo Championships | 3rd | −78 kg |
References
edit- ^ "Vanessa Chalá". JudoInside.com. Retrieved 19 November 2020.
- ^ "Women's 78 kg Results". 2018 South American Games. Archived from the original on 3 July 2018. Retrieved 29 April 2024.
- ^ "Judo Results" (PDF). 2019 Pan American Games. Archived (PDF) from the original on 6 October 2020. Retrieved 17 April 2020.
- ^ "Women's 78 kg Results" (PDF). 2019 Pan American Games. Archived from the original (PDF) on 29 January 2023. Retrieved 28 April 2024.
- ^ "2021 Judo World Masters". International Judo Federation. Retrieved 12 January 2021.
- ^ "Judocas Lenin Preciado, Vanessa Chalá y Estefanía García elevan a 44 los clasificados de Ecuador para los Juegos Olímpicos de Tokio". El Universo (in Spanish). 22 June 2021. Retrieved 28 June 2021.
- ^ "Judo Results Book" (PDF). Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 August 2021. Retrieved 1 August 2021.
External links
edit- Vanessa Fernanda Chala Minda at the International Judo Federation
- Vanessa Fernanda Chala Minda at JudoInside.com
- Vanessa Fernanda Chala Minda at AllJudo.net (in French)
- Vanessa Fernanda Chala Minda at Olympics.com
- Vanessa Fernanda Chala Minda at Olympedia
- Vanessa Chalá at The-Sports.org
- Vanessa Chalá on Instagram
