Cho Chi-hyo

Cho Chi-hyo

Cho Chi-hyo
Player information
birthday	December 6, 1970
place of birth	Incheon , South Korea
citizenship	Korean
height	1.94 m
Playing position	Back right
Throwing hand	Left
Clubs as active
from ... to	society
0000-1995	?
1995-2004	Pathfinder Winterthur
2004-2006	Cadets Schaffhausen
2006-2007	Wacker Thun
2007-2009	HBW Balingen-Weilstetten
2012–2012	Pathfinder Winterthur
2012-2013	Seen tigers
National team
	Games (goals)
South Korea	168 (?)
Clubs as coaches
from ... to	society
2012-2013	Seen tigers
2013-2016	South Korea (assistant coach)
2018–	Seen Tigers 1st League
Status: National team November 7, 2007

Cho Chi-hyo (born December 6, 1970 in Incheon , South Korea ) is a former Korean handball player . The left-hander played, among other things, in the handball Bundesliga at HBW Balingen-Weilstetten on the right backcourt position .

In Switzerland, Cho began his European handball career in 1995 with Pfadi Winterthur . After nine very successful years, including six championship titles, he moved to the Kadetten Schaffhausen for two years . From there he went to Wacker Thun . Before moving to the handball Bundesliga for the first time after just one year at HBW Balingen-Weilstetten , for which he played until 2009.

After Cho was no longer active, he made his comeback for Pfadi Winterthur in May 2012. In the 2012/13 season Cho ran for the Lakes Tigers, where he worked as a player-coach from fall 2012. He then became an assistant coach of the South Korean women's national team .

The 1.94 m long Cho is married and has three daughters.

successes

• 8 × Swiss champions (1996, 1997, 1998, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2006)
• 3 × Swiss Cup winners (1998, 2003 and 2005)
• 1 × Swiss Supercup (2005)
• four participations in world championships (1990, 1993, 1995 and 1997)
• 3 × Olympic Games (1992, 2000 and 2008)

Web links

• Cho Chi-hyo in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Cho Chi-hyo in the database of the European Handball Federation (English)
• Chi-hyo Cho at handball-hall-of-fame.ch

Individual evidence

1. ↑ HBW Balingen-Weilstetten, Chi-Hyo Cho ( Memento from August 4, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ news.ch of March 3, 2006, Chi-Hyo Cho zu Wacker Thun
3. ↑ sport1.ch of February 6, 2007, also Chi-Hyo Cho in the Bundesliga  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ↑ ^{a b} landbote.ch: “Maybe I'll come home to Winterthur” , accessed on April 6, 2017
5. ↑ ^{a b c} handzone.net, Chi-Hyo Cho ( Memento from October 31, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
6. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: Kadetten Schaffhausen, Chi-Hyo Cho