Cho In-chul

Korean spelling
Hangeul	조인철
Hanja	趙 麟 徹
Revised Romanization	Jo In-cheol
McCune- Reischauer	Cho Inch'ŏl
See also : Korean name

Cho In-chul (born March 4, 1976 ) is a former South Korean judoka . He was twice world champion and won two Olympic medals.

Athletic career

The 1.80 m tall Cho In-chul fought in the light middleweight division. In 1994 he won the silver medal at the Junior World Championships. In 1995 he won silver at the Universiade behind the Japanese Kazunori Kubota . Three months later, the Korean reached the final at the Asian Championships and was defeated by the Japanese Makoto Takimoto . At the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta , Cho In-chul defeated the Uzbek Vladimir Shmakov in the quarter-finals and then lost to the Japanese Toshihiko Koga in the semi-finals and defeated the Argentinian Dario García in the battle for a bronze medal . In November 1996, Cho In-chul reached the final of the Asian Championships, where he was defeated by Vladimir Shmakov. At the end of 1996, the Korean won the student world championships.

At the beginning of 1997, Cho In-chul won the Tournoi de Paris . The 1997 World Championships also took place in Paris eight months later . In the semifinals Cho won against the North Korean Kwak Ok-chol , in the final he defeated the 1996 Olympic champion Djamel Bouras from France. At the end of 1997 the South Korean also won the South Asian Championships. The highlight of the 1998 season was the Asian Games in Bangkok. In the light middleweight division there was a duel between the two Koreans, Cho In-chul won the final against Kwak Ok-chol. At the 1999 World Championships in Birmingham, Cho In-chul lost to the Uzbek Farkhod Turaev in the quarterfinals . With three wins in the Hope Round, Cho secured a bronze medal. At the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney he won the quarter-finals over the Estonian Aleksei Budõlin and in the semifinals over the Portuguese Nuno Delgado , both fights lasted the full duration of the fight. The final between the Japanese Makoto Takimoto and Cho In-chul also lasted five minutes, the Japanese won the gold medal through small scores. In May 2001, Cho won the East Asian Championships. At the end of his career he reached the final at the 2001 World Championships in Munich by beating the British Graeme Randall in the semi- finals and also won this fight against the Estonian Aleksei Budõlin.

literature

• Volker Kluge : Summer Olympic Games. Chronicle IV. Seoul 1988 - Atlanta 1996. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-328-00830-6 .

Web links

• Cho In-chul in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Tournament results at judoinside.com

Footnotes

1. ↑ Summer Universiade 1995 at judoinside.com
2. ↑ Asian Championships 1995 at judoinside.com
3. ↑ Asia Championships 1996 at judoinside.com
4. ↑ The results of the individual fights at world championships and numerous other tournaments can be found in the match balance at judoinside.com
5. ↑ Asian Games 1998 at judoinside.com.

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Cho is the family name here, In-chul is the first name.