Cho In-ho

Cho In-ho
Full name	조 인호
nation	South Korea
birthday	June 24, 1978
place of birth	Seoul
size	173 cm
Weight	75 kg
Career
National squad	since 2006
status	resigned
Placements in the WC / EC / NAC / IC
Skeleton ranking 50th (2007/08) Debut in the World Cup November 2008 Debut in the European Cup November 2004 Debut North American Cup January 2008 Debut in the Interconti-Cup January 2008
last change: January 25, 2011

Cho In-ho (South Korean 조 인호; born June 24, 1978 in Seoul ) is a former South Korean skeleton skier and bobsleigh athlete .

Chao during training on February 18 for the 2010 Olympic Games in Vancouver

In-ho Cho from Gwang won Do made his international debut in November 2004 at the European Skeleton Cup race in Igls and reached 59th place. At the Winter Universiade 2005 in the same place he reached 13th place. He finished the World Cup in 2006 in Ilsenburg in seventh place. At the beginning of 2007, the South Korean achieved his best international results in the European Cup. In Winterberg he came ninth, in Igls even fourth. The rest of the season he first drove in the Skeleton Intercontinental Cup and the Skeleton America's Cup . In Altenberg , Cho started in February 2008 for the first time in a skeleton world championship and finished there in 26th place. At the beginning of the 2008/09 season , the Korean competed in the Skeleton World Cup for the first time and finished 28th at the start of the season in Winterberg. The best result was a 25th place in Park City . Towards the end of the season he returned to the America's Cup and achieved there new bests in the racing series with two sixth places in Lake Placid . The best international result was a second place in Calgary , where Cho was only beaten by Anthony Deane in December 2009 . In the further course of the season he came to appearances in the America's and Continental Cup. Highlight the careers and their statements have been taking part in the 2010 Olympic Winter Games from Vancouver , where Cho was 22.

In addition to skeleton, Cho was also active as a bobsleigh athlete. Here he took part in races of the four-man America's Cup, especially in January 2008, alongside pilot Kang Kwang-bae and pushers Kim Jung-su and Lee Jin-hee . The best result was a third place in Park City. An America's Cup race in Lake Placid in April 2010 became Cho's last ever international race. With pilot Jinhee Lee he reached eleventh place in the two-man bobsleigh.

Web links

• Cho In-ho in the database of the International Bobsleigh & Skeleton Federation
• Cho In-ho in the database of the International Bobsleigh & Skeleton Federation
• Cho In-ho in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• In-ho Cho at Sportresult

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-ho is the first name.