Jo Un-ok

Jo Un-ok
nation	North Korea
birthday	29th August 1992 (age 28)
place of birth	North Korea
size	159 cm
Weight	46 kg
Career
discipline	Long distance running
status	active
last change: October 6, 2018

Korean spelling
Chosŏn'gŭl	조은옥
Revised Romanization	Jo Eun-ok
McCune- Reischauer	Cho Ŭnok
See also : Korean name

Jo Un-ok (born August 29, 1992 ) is a North Korean long-distance runner .

Athletic career

Jo Un-ok gained her first international experience at the Macau International Marathon 2015, in which she came in fifth. The following year she was third in both the Pyongyang Marathon and the Beijing Marathon. In 2017 she won the marathon in the North Korean capital and thus qualified for the World Championships in London . There she reached the finish line after 2:36:46 h and thus finished 29th . She then won the bronze medal at the Asian Marathon Championships in Dongguan . In 2018 she took part in the Asian Games in Jakarta for the first time , where she finished fifth in the marathon in 2:38:32 h .

Personal best

• Marathon: 2:27:42 h, April 8, 2018 in Pyongyang

Web links

• Jo Un-ok in the database of World Athletics (English)

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. So Jo is the family name here, Un-ok is the first name.