Charlee Minkin (born November 13, 1981) is an American Olympic

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/ref> She won three national titles (2000, 2002, and 2004), and won the silver medal in the women's half lightweight division (–52 kg) at the

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. In 2011 she won the gold medal in

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at the

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Pan Am Championships.

Early and personal life

Minkin was born in

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. She is Jewish, was bat mitzvah, and attended Congregation Beth Israel-Judea in San Francisco."COVER STORY: A hard-knock life" – ''J''
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Stephen Minkin, died in a plane crash when she was five years old, and she has three siblings, Zisa, Ben, and Davina (trained in Israel for a year with Olympic medalist

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). She attended Brandeis Hillel Day School in San Francisco. She then attended the

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Judo career

Minkin has been coached by Ed Liddie. In 1998 she won the silver medal in the Pan American U20 Championships (–52 kg). Minkin won three national titles (2000, 2002 (as her older sister Davina won the 57 kg gold medal), and 2004; –52 kg)) and five continental titles. Minkin won the silver medal in the women's half lightweight division (–52 kg) at the

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. She represented her native country at the age of 22 at the

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in Women's 52 kg in

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.Charlee Minkin Bio, Stats, and Results , Olympics at Sports-Reference.com
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Career after judo

In 2005, she began a career as a personal trainer. In 2007, Minkin began working as a police agent for the Lakewood, Colorado, Police Department. In 2009, she began to train in

and won the gold medal at the 2011

Pan Am Championships.

References

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Minkin, Charlee 1981 births Living people American female judoka Judoka at the 2003 Pan American Games Judoka at the 2004 Summer Olympics Olympic judoka of the United States People from Half Moon Bay, California Sportspeople from San Francisco Pan American Games silver medalists for the United States Pan American Games medalists in judo Jewish martial artists Jewish American sportspeople University of Colorado Colorado Springs alumni American women police officers Jewish American police officers American practitioners of Brazilian jiu-jitsu Female Brazilian jiu-jitsu practitioners Medalists at the 2003 Pan American Games 21st-century American Jews 21st-century American women

Early and personal life

Judo career

Career after judo

See also

References