Cho Min-sun

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Korean spelling
Hangeul 조민선
Hanja 曹 敏 仙
Revised
Romanization 		Jo Min-seon
McCune-
Reischauer 		Cho Minson

Cho Min-sun (born March 21, 1972 ) is a former South Korean judoka . She won two Olympic medals and was twice world champion.

Career

Cho Min-sun began her career in the super light weight class up to 48 kilograms. She won a bronze medal at the Asian Championships in 1988. At the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul, judo competitions for women were offered as part of the demonstration competitions. Cho won her first fight against the Taiwanese Yu-Ping Chou and then lost to the Japanese Fumiko Ezaki , taking third place with the Australian Julie Reardon .

In 1989 Cho took part in the half-light weight category, up to 52 kilograms, at the World Championships in Belgrade . In her first fight she was defeated by the Italian Alessandra Giungi . With victories over Tatjana Gawrilowa from the Soviet Union, the Japanese Noriko Mizoguchi and the French Dominique Maaoui-Brun in the hope round, Cho reached the battle for bronze. Here she defeated the Taiwanese Yu-Ping Chou and received a bronze medal.

In 1990 Cho fought in the lightweight, the weight class up to 56 kilograms. In February she won the Tournoi de Paris . At the end of March she won the Junior World Championships in Dijon. In the fall of 1990, she won a bronze medal at the Asian Games .

After a year break, she won the Tournoi de Paris in the middleweight division, the weight class up to 66 kilograms, in February 1992 . In the same month she fought at the world cup tournament in Munich in the light heavyweight division and finished second behind her compatriot Kim Mi-jung . After that, the 1.75 m tall Cho fought almost exclusively in the middleweight division until the end of her career.

At the 1993 World Championships in Hamilton, Canada, she defeated the Cuban Odalis Revé in the quarter -finals, the Chinese Zhang Di in the semi-finals and Liliko Ogasawara from the United States in the final . A month and a half later she also won the Asian Championships in Macau with a final victory over the Chinese Xu. In 1994 Cho was defeated by Japanese Aiko Oishi in the final of the Asian Games in Hiroshima . At the end of 1994 Cho won the Student World Championships in Münster.

In 1995 Cho won the Tournoi de Paris for the third time , a fortnight later she also won the World Cup tournament in Munich. In the summer of 1995 she won the Universiade in Fukuoka. A month later, the 1995 World Championships also took place in Japan. At the World Cup tournament in Chiba, Cho defeated Claudia Zwiers from the Netherlands in the semi-finals, and in the final the Korean won against the Cuban Odalis Revé. At the Asian Championships in 1995, Cho won a bronze medal. In the summer of 1996, Cho won the semifinals against Claudia Zwiers at the Olympic Games in Atlanta with Ippon after three minutes. In the final, she beat the Polish Aneta Szczepańska after eighteen seconds.

In 1997, Cho won the silver medal at the World Team Championships with the Korean team. At the World Championships in Paris, she was defeated in the semi-finals by Briton Kate Howey , and won the battle for the bronze medal against Frenchwoman Isabelle Beauruelle . In late 1997, Cho won the South Asian Championships in Busan.

In 2000, Cho returned to the judo mat. After finishing second at the Tournoi de Paris in February, she won a bronze medal at the Asian Championships in May. In September she lost to the Cuban Sibelis Veranes in the semifinals of the Olympic Games in Sydney , and in the battle for bronze she won against the Belgian Ulla Werbrouck .

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ The presentation of the results follows the presentation on the results list at judoinside.com
  2. ↑ Volker Kluge: Olympic Summer Games. Chronicle IV. Seoul 1988 – Atlanta 1996 . P. 227
  3. ↑ a b c d e f Cho Min-sun's battle report
  4. ↑ Volker Kluge: Olympic Summer Games. Chronicle IV. Seoul 1988 – Atlanta 1996 . P. 761f
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, Min-sun is the first name.
personal data
SURNAME Cho Min-sun
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 조민선 (Hangeul)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South Korean judoka
DATE OF BIRTH March 21, 1972