Cho Joon Ho ( cor. 조준호 , December 16, 1988 , Busan ) - Korean semi-lightweight judo wrestler , has been playing for the South Korean team since 2008. Bronze medalist of the Summer Olympic Games in London, winner of the bronze medal of the World Championship, bronze medalist of the Asian Championship, winner of many tournaments of national and international importance.
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| Citizenship |  The Republic of Korea | |||||||||||||||||||
| Date of Birth | December 16, 1988 (30 years) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Place of Birth | Busan , South Korea | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Growth | 165 cm | |||||||||||||||||||
| Weight category | lightweight (up to 66 kg) | |||||||||||||||||||
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Biography
Cho Jun Ho was born on December 16, 1988 in Busan . He began to actively engage in judo from early childhood, because his parents were judoists, and the younger brother also subsequently became a judoist. First declared itself in 2008, taking third place in the open championship of Korea in Jeju [1] [2] .
He achieved the first serious success at the international level in 2011 when he got into the main team of the Korean national team and visited the Asian Championship in Abu Dhabi, from where he brought the bronze dignity award won in the semi-lightweight category - he was defeated by the world champion from Japan Junpay Morishita , who eventually became the winner of this Asian championship. In addition, this season he performed at the World Championships in Paris, where he also received a bronze medal - in the quarter-finals he lost to another Japanese Masashi Ebinume , who again became the champion of this world championship [3] .
Thanks to a series of successful performances, Cho was awarded the right to defend the country's honor at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London - Ukrainian Sergey Drebot defeated the semi-lightweight in the opening bout, then dealt with Mirzokhid Farmonov from Uzbekistan, but in the quarterfinal was defeated by longtime rival Masasi Ebinuma and lost his chance. victory in the tournament. Nevertheless, in third-place consolation fights, he beat British Colin Oates and Spanish representative Sugoi Uriarte , thus gaining a bronze Olympic medal.
After the London Olympics, Cho Joon Ho remained in the main line-up of the judo team in South Korea and continued to take part in major international tournaments. So, in 2013, in the lightweight weight category, he took third place in an international tournament in Paris, won the World Cup stage in Budapest and received a silver medal at the Ulan Bator Grand Prix. As of 2014, he remained an active professional judo player, although he no longer won significant victories in the international arena [4] [5] .
Notes
- ↑ Jun-Hyun Cho
- ↑ '조준호 쌍둥이' 조준현 '실력 도 똑같네 ~!' - KBS NEWS (Inaccessible link) . The date of circulation is November 11, 2015. Archived March 4, 2016.
- ↑ World Judo Championships, Paris 2011 - DAY 1 RESULTS (not available link) . The appeal date is November 11, 2015. Archived October 17, 2011.
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Links
- Cho Joon Ho - Olympic statistics on Sports-Reference.com (English)
- Cho Jun Ho - judoinside.com profile (English)