Jung Jihyun (wrestler)

In 2002, he took part in the Asian Games, where he remained the sixth. In 2003, he was 23rd at the World Junior Championships. In 2004, he won second place in the pre-Olympic qualification tournament, became the Asian champion and received a ticket to the Olympic Games in Athens.

At the 2004 Olympics he fought in the category of up to 60 kg ( light weight ). The tournament participants, numbering 20 people, were divided into seven groups, in each of which the struggle was conducted according to a circular system. The winners in the groups reached the quarter finals, where they fought on the system with elimination after the defeat. The losers took places according to qualification and technical points obtained in the battles. A young Korean wrestler, unexpectedly won all meetings, including fights with Olympic champion Wlodzimierz Zavadsky and two-time Olympic champion Armen Nazaryan , and won the gold medal of the Olympics.

In 2005, he became the second at the world championship among students. In 2006 he became a two-time champion of Asia. In 2007, he won the silver medal of the Dave Schultz Memorial and the Asian Championship and the bronze medal of the World Championship. In 2008, he was fourth at the World Cup. He received an Olympic ticket having won second place in the second world qualification tournament.

At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, he fought in the category of up to 60 kilograms ( light weight ). The tournament was attended by 20 people. The tournament was held according to the system with elimination after the defeat with comforting fights. The wrestlers by lot were divided into two groups, in the first group there were eight athletes who started the fight from the 1/8 finals, in the second group twelve, of which four started the fight from the 1/8 finals, and eight fighters held qualifying meetings for the right to get into 1 / 8 finals. Those athletes who did not lose a single fight went to the finals, where they played the first and second places. The wrestlers who lost to the finalists began to fight in the consolation tournament, according to the results of which two bronze medalists were determined, one in each group. In other words, the wrestler, having lost the fight in any round of the tournament, did not immediately drop out, but expected the results of the meeting of his winner in the next round. For example, the wrestler lost in 1/8, his winner reached the quarter-finals. If his winner in the quarter finals lost, then the wrestler dropped out immediately, and his winner went to a comforting tournament. If his winner in the quarter finals won again, then the wrestler met in a comforting meeting with the loser in the quarter finals and so on. The fight by the rules consisted of three periods of two minutes; the winner in two periods won the meeting. Cho Chi Hyun won in the 1/8 finals, lost to Nurbakhyt Tenizbaev in the quarterfinals. The Kazakh athlete lost in the semifinals, and Cho Ji Hyun dropped out of the tournament, taking the final ninth place.

In 2010, he won the Dave Schultz Memorial, took second place at the Asian Games and third at the World Championships. In 2011, he won the World Cup, won a silver medal at the President’s Cup of Kazakhstan and remained fifth at the World Cup. In 2012, he was second at the World Cup, he won the tournament in memory of Jon Czerny and the Trophee Milone tournament.

At the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, he fought in the category of up to 60 kilograms ( light weight ). The tournament was attended by 20 people. Tournament regulations and rules remain the same. Cho Ji Hyun practically repeated the previous result, winning the 1/8 finals, losing the 1/4 finals and not falling into the comforting fights, as Khasan Aliyev lost in the semifinals. The Korean wrestler took the final 8th place.

For 2014, he is a trainer at the club of Kim In, a three-time world champion in wrestling.

• Jung Jihyun - Olympic stats on Sports-Reference.com
• Jung Jihyun - profile on International Wrestling Database