Choi Seou

Choi Seou
Choi Seou 2014
nation	South Korea
birthday	3rd December 1982 (age 37)
place of birth	Gunsan
job	college student
Career
society	High1 Resort
Trainer	Wolfgang Hartmann , Ha Sung-jo
National squad	since 1995
Pers. Best	184.0 m ( Planica 2015)
status	active
Medal table
WAS medals 1 × 0 × 1 × WU medals 2 × 2 × 0 × KM medals 2 × 0 × 0 ×
Winter Asian Games gold 2003 Aomori team bronze 2011 Almaty team bronze 2017 Sapporo team  Winter Universiade gold 2003 Tarvisio team silver 2007 Pragelato Normal hill silver 2007 Pragelato team gold 2009 Yabuli team South Korean Championships gold 2011 Pyeongchang Large hill gold 2013 Pyeongchang Normal hill gold 2018 Pyeongchang Large hill gold 2018 Pyeongchang Normal hill
Ski jumping world cup / A class jumping
Debut in the World Cup	January 1, 1999
Overall World Cup	72nd ( 2006/07 )
Jump World Cup	99th ( 1998/99 )
Four Hills Tournament	42nd ( 1998/99 )
Ski jumping Grand Prix
Overall Grand Prix	30. ( 2007 )
Ski Jumping Continental Cup (COC)
COC wins (individual)	01 ( details )
Overall ranking COC	24th ( 2004/05 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Single jump 1 2 1
last change: April 1, 2019

Choi Seou
Hangeul	최 서우
Revised Romanization	Choe Seo-u
McCune- Reischauer	Ch'oe Sŏu
See also : Korean name

Choi Yong-jik
Hangeul	최용 직
Revised Romanization	Choe Yong-jik
McCune- Reischauer	Ch'oe Yongjik
See also : Korean name

Choi Seou (until 2012 Choi Yong-jik ) (born December 3, 1982 in Gunsan ) is a South Korean ski jumper . Like all professional ski jumpers from South Korea, he works for the High1 Resort ski club .

Career

Choi jumps especially in the Continental Cup , where he in 2005 , a jump in Brotterode could win. On the Inselbergschanze there , he has since held the hill record with 123.5 meters. Altogether he got four podium finishes and in the overall standings of the 2004/05 season a 24th place as his best result.

Choi is less successful in the World Cup. He reached the points only four times: for the first time in 1999 on Bergisel , most recently in 2015 as 29th in Oslo . He achieved his best result so far in 2007 as 25th in Klingenthal . With the South Korean team, he was also eighth in Sapporo in 2002 .

Choi Seou participated in all Winter Olympic Games from 1998 to 2018 . He has taken part in the Winter Olympics six times so far. These were the games in 1998 in Nagano , 2002 in Salt Lake City , 2006 in Turin , 2010 in Vancouver , 2014 in Sochi and 2018 in Pyeongchang in his home country. He achieved his best results in individual as 34th in 2002 and 2014 on the normal hill and in team jumping as eighth in 2002.

Choi's most successful world championship was the 2005 World Championships in Oberstdorf , when he was 22nd in individual jumping and 10th in team jumping on the normal hill. He also managed a 29th place at the ski flying world championship of 2000 in Vikersund . At the 2003 Winter Universiades in Tarvisio, Italy and in Yabuli , China in 2009 , he won the gold medal in the team competition with the South Korean team. In 2007 he took second place in the student competitions in Pragelato on the normal hill and in the team competition. At the Winter Asian Games 2003 in Aomori , Japan , he was able to win the title with the South Korean team. In 2011 in Almaty , Kazakhstan , he was able to take third place with the team. The same happened six years later at the Winter Asian Games 2017 in Sapporo .

Personal

In addition to South Korean , Choi also speaks German . He went to high school and is a student at Korea National Sports University .

successes

Continental Cup wins in singles

No.	date	place	Type
1.	February 12, 2005	Brotterode	Large hill

statistics

World Cup placements

season	space	Points
1998/99	101.	01
2006/07	072.	11
2014/15	082.	02

Grand Prix placements

season	space	Points
2000	57.	01
2006	66.	10
2007	30th	72
2008	72.	07th
2015	58.	33
2018	75.	04th
2019	67.	03

Continental Cup placements

season	space	Points
1996/97	182	030th
1997/98	201.	026th
1998/99	119.	098
1999/00	105.	116
2000/01	111.	072
2001/02	153.	048
2002/03	113.	044
2003/04	077.	046
2004/05	024.	346
2005/06	041.	145
2006/07	075.	056
2007/08	149.	003
2008/09	126.	015th
2009/10	115.	011
2010/11	091.	029
2011/12	091.	029
2012/13	107.	060
2013/14	096.	049
2015/16	085.	067
2016/17	113.	041
2017/18	084.	063
2019/20	119.	026th

Web links

Commons : Choi Seou  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Choi Seou in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Choi Seou in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Choi Seou in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original ), accessed on November 6, 2013.
2. ↑ Overview of results at www.fis-ski.com , accessed on February 28, 2017.
3. ↑ Overview of results at www.fis-ski.com , accessed on January 8, 2012.
4. ↑ result in www.berkutschi.com , accessed on 8 January 2012 Design.
5. ↑ Curriculum vitae on Nate-People  ( 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. , accessed November 6, 2013 (Korean).  

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Choi is the family name here, Seou is the first name.