Cho Ho-sung

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Cho Ho-sung Road cycling
Cho Ho-sung (2011 at the Track World Cup in Cali)
Cho Ho-sung (2011 at the Track World Cup in Cali)
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Date of birth June 15, 1974
nation KoreaAll-Korean team Korea
discipline Street
End of career 2014
Last updated: August 15, 2020
Korean spelling
Hangeul 조호성
Hanja 趙浩成
Revised
Romanization
Jo Ho-seong
McCune-
Reischauer
Cho Hosŏng

Cho Ho-sung (born June 15, 1974 in Gyeonggi-do , South Korea ) is a former South Korean track and road cyclist .

Athletic career

Cho won the gold medal in the team pursuit and silver in the points race at the Asian Games in Bangkok in 1998 . At the UCI track world championships in Berlin in 1999 , he won the bronze medal in the points race with third place. In the 2002 season, he won a road stage in the Tour of Qinghai Lake . At the Asian Games in Busan he won the gold medal in the points race and in the two-man team race (Madison) together with Suh Seok-kyu . In 2005 he was Asian champion in the keirin . From 2009 Cho Ho-sung rode for the South Korean Continental Team Seoul Cycling .

Cho Ho-sung competed three times - 1996 , 2000 and 2012 - at the Olympic Games. In 1996 in Atlanta he finished eighth in the points race and in 2000 in Sydney eleventh . In 2012 in London , he finished eleventh in the Omnium .

By 2013, Cho won a total of twelve gold medals on the track and two silver medals at the Asian Games and Asian Championships .

Successes - rail

1998
2002
2005
  • gold Asian champion - Keirin
2010
2011
  • gold Asian champion - Omnium
2013
  • gold Asian champions - points race, scratch
2014
  • gold Asian champions - Scratch
  • silver Asian Games - Omnium

Successes - road

2002
2009
2011
2013

Teams

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Individual evidence

  1. For the 2012 season, Cho Ho-sung was not registered with the UCI as a racing cyclist for the Continental Team.