Chae Ji-hoon

Chae Ji-hoon
nation	South Korea
birthday	March 5th 1974
place of birth	Seoul ,  South Korea
Career
status	resigned
Medal table
Olympic medals 1 × 2 × 0 × World Cup medals 7 × 4 × 5 ×
winter Olympics gold 1994 Lillehammer 500 m silver 1994 Lillehammer 1000 m silver 1998 Nagano 5000 m relay  Short track world championships gold 1993 Beijing 3000 m bronze 1993 Beijing 1500 m bronze 1993 Beijing All-around gold 1994 Guildford 1500 m silver 1994 Guildford 3000 m silver 1994 Guildford All-around gold 1995 Gjøvik 500 m gold 1995 Gjøvik 1500 m gold 1995 Gjøvik 3000 m gold 1995 Gjøvik All-around gold 1996 The Hague 3000 m silver 1996 The Hague All-around bronze 1996 The Hague 1000 m bronze 1996 The Hague 1500 m bronze 1996 The Hague 5000 m relay silver 1998 Vienna 5000 m relay

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

1. ↑ 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  

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Chae is the family name here, Ji-hoon is the first name.