- Cho Ha-Ri
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Cho Ha-Ri Personal information Born July 29, 1986
Seoul, South KoreaHeight 1.67 m (5 ft 5 1⁄2 in) Weight 54 kg (120 lb; 8.5 st) Sport Country South Korea Club Goyang City Hall Achievements and titles World finals 2011 Overall Medal recordWomen's short track speed skating Competitor for South Korea World Championships Gold 2011 Sheffield Overall Gold 2011 Sheffield 1000 m Gold 2011 Sheffield 3000 m Gold 2010 Sofia 3000 m relay Silver 2010 Sofia 1000 m Silver 2010 Sofia 3000 m Bronze 2011 Sheffield 1500 m Bronze 2010 Sofia Overall Bronze 2010 Sofia 1500 m Bronze 2003 Warsaw 3000 m World Team Championships Gold 2011 Warsaw Team Gold 2010 Bormio Team Gold 2004 St. Petersberg Team Gold 2003 Sofia Team Winter Universiade Silver 2007 Turin 1000 m Silver 2007 Turin 1500 m Asian Winter Games Gold 2011 Astana-Almaty 1500 m Gold 2003 Aomori 3000 m relay Silver 2011 Astana-Almaty 1000 m Silver 2011 Astana-Almaty 3000 m relay Silver 2003 Aomori 1500 m Bronze 2003 Aomori 1000 m World Junior Championships Bronze 2002 Chuncheon Overall Cho Ha-Ri (Hangul: 조해리, Hanja: 趙海利) (born July 29, 1986) is a short track speed skater who competes for South Korea. She is the 2011 Overall World Champion.
Career
At the 2010 Winter Olympics, Cho finished 4th in the women's 1000 metres and 5th in the 1500 metres. Later that season, she placed third for the overall title at the 2010 World Short Track Speed Skating Championships, capturing silver in the 1000 m and 3000 m races, and third in the 1500 m.
At the 2011 World Short Track Speed Skating Championships, Cho won the overall World Championship title, winning the 1000 m and 3000 m races, and finished third in the 1500 m race to capture the overall title.[1] In the following week, Cho helped Korea to win the 2011 World Team Championships (last one to be scheduled into foreseeable future) held in Warsaw.
References
- ^ "Short trackers win titles at world championships". The Korea Times. 2011-03-14. http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/sports/2011/03/136_83049.html. Retrieved 2011-03-14.
World Champions in Short Track Speed Skating – Women's Overall 1976: Celeste Chlapaty • 1977: Brenda Webster • 1978: Sarah Docter • 1979: Sylvie Daigle • 1980–1981: Miyoshi Kato • 1982: Maryse Perreault • 1983: Sylvie Daigle • 1984: Mariko Kinoshita • 1985: Eiko Shishii • 1986: Bonnie Blair • 1987: Eiko Shishii • 1988–1990: Sylvie Daigle • 1991: Nathalie Lambert • 1992: Kim So-Hee • 1993–1994: Nathalie Lambert • 1995–1997: Chun Lee-Kyung • 1998–2002: Yang Yang (A) • 2003–2004: Choi Eun-Kyung • 2005–2007: Jin Sun-Yu • 2008–2009: Wang Meng • 2010: Park Seung-Hi • 2011: Cho Ha-Ri
Categories:- 1986 births
- Living people
- South Korean short track speed skaters
- Olympic short track speed skaters of South Korea
- Short track speed skaters at the 2010 Winter Olympics
- Speed skating biography stubs
- South Korean winter sports biography stubs
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