Chae Ji-hoon
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nation | South Korea | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
birthday | March 5th 1974 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
place of birth | Seoul , South Korea | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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status | resigned | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Chae Ji-hoon (also Chae Ji-hun ; kor. 채지훈 ; born March 5, 1974 in Seoul ) is a former short tracker and current short track trainer from South Korea .
Career
As an athlete
Chae first became world champion over 3000 m at the World Championships in Beijing in 1993 . At the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer , he was Olympic champion over the 500 m distance and won the silver medal over 1000 m. At the 1994 World Championships he was world champion over 1500 m and the following year four-time world champion at the World Championships in Gjøvik . In The Hague he was again world champion over 3000 m at the 1996 World Cup. In Nagano at the 1998 Winter Olympics , he started the relay and was able to win the gold medal. He also won several gold medals at the Winter Asian Games and the Winter Universiade .
As a trainer
After his active career, he earned a doctorate in sports psychology from Yonsei University . From 2006 to 2007 he was the head coach of the US national short track team and coached Apolo Anton Ohno . He was then head coach at Leading Edge for one season and joined iShortTrack in 2011 , which worked with Potomac in the 2013/2014 season. Chae has been a member of the technical committee of the International Skating Union (ISU) since 2006 and is certified as a level 3 coach in US speed skating.
Web links
- Chae Ji-hoon in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- Profile on databaseolympics.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ Head Coach Jihoon Chae ( Memento of the original from February 23, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on potomacspeedskating.org
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SURNAME | Chae, Ji-hoon |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 채지훈 (Korean, Hangeul); 蔡智 薰 (Korean, Hanja); Chae, Ji-hun |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | South Korean short tracker |
DATE OF BIRTH | March 5th 1974 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Seoul , South Korea |