Mo Tae-bum

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Mo Tae-bum Speed ​​skating
Mo Tae-bum
nation Korea SouthSouth Korea South Korea
birthday February 15, 1989
size 177 cm
Weight 72 kg
Career
status active
Medal table
Olympic medals 1 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
World Cup medals 2 × gold 2 × silver 1 × bronze
Olympic rings winter Olympics
gold 2010 Vancouver 500 m
silver 2010 Vancouver 1000 m
ISU Sprint World Championships
silver 2011 Heerenveen sprint
bronze 2012 Calgary sprint
ISU Individual distance world championships
gold 2012 Heerenveen 500 m
gold 2013 Sochi 500 m
silver 2013 Sochi 1000 m
Placements in the speed skating world cup
 Debut in the World Cup November 7, 2008
 World Cup victories 3
 Total toilet 500 1st ( 2011/12 )
 Total toilet 1000 6th ( 2011/12 )
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 500 meters 2 10 4th
 1000 meters 1 0 4th
 1500 meters 0 0 1
last change: February 8, 2015

Mo Tae-bum ( kor. 모태 범 ; born February 15, 1989 ) is a South Korean speed skater .

As a junior he won two world championship titles over 500 meters and 1500 meters in Erfurt in 2006 . In 2009 he won two gold medals in the 1000 meters and 1500 meters at the Winter Universiade in Harbin .

At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver , he took part over 500 meters, 1000 meters and 1500 meters. He won the gold medal over 500 meters with a time of 34.923 seconds, as well as the silver medal over 1000 meters.

He took the Olympic oath as the athletes' representative at the opening ceremony of the 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea.

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Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Mo is the family name here, Tae-bum is the first name.
personal data
SURNAME Mo, Tae-bum
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 모태 범 (Korean, Hangeul); 牟 太 釩 (Korean, Hanja); Mo, Tae-beom (Revised Romanization); Mon, T'aepŏm (McCune-Reischauer)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South Korean speed skater
DATE OF BIRTH February 15, 1989