Charline Van Snick, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Charline Van Snick

Belgian judoka

Date of Birth: 02-Sep-1990

Place of Birth: Liège, Wallonia, Belgium

Profession: judoka

Nationality: Belgium

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Charline Van Snick (born 2 September 1990 in Liège) is a Belgian judoka who won bronze in the Woman's Judo 48 kg in the 2012 Summer Olympics.
She also earned a bronze medal at the 2010 European Judo Championships and a silver medal at the 2012 and 2013 European Judo Championships. She had already won at the age of 17 a medal on the European Championship of -20, when she was only 17.
2009, she became European champion and got the 5th spot on the championship in the category -20 years.
As a reward for this, she got the Sports Merit Trophy awarded by the French Community.
2010, she won at her first European Championship in the senior's series a bronze medal. In 2012 Van Snick won the silver medal at the European Championships.
On Saturday 28 July 2012, she won a bronze medal on the Olympic Games 2012 in London.
In the qualifying round, she passed the Corean Jung-Yeon Chung with ippon.
In the quarter-finals, she beat the Hungarian Éva Csernoviczki with ippon.
She lost the semi-finals against the later Olympic champion Sarah Menezes with yuko.
The game which decided the bronze medal was won against the Argentinian Paula Pareto, after the latter got a second shido. In April 2013 Van Snick won the Silver Medal at the European Championships, losing in the finals from Csernoviczki.