- Hwang Young-Cho
Infobox Korean name
hangul=황영조
hanja=黃永祚
mr= Hwang Yŏng-cho
rr=Hwang Yeong-joHwang Young-Cho (born
March 22 ,1970 ) is a formerSouth Korea n athlete, winner of the marathon race at the1992 Summer Olympics and1994 Asian Games .Born in
Samcheok , South Korea, Hwang Young-Cho was a promising track athlete in his junior years, but after his first marathon in 1991, which he won, decided to specialize to marathon.The
Barcelona Olympic marathon was only fourth of his career. He had won two and placed second on his three previous marathon competitions. In Barcelona, Hwang was in the leading pack from the start, but in a slowly run race, this group still numbered thirty runners at the halfway mark. However, runners gradually lost contact with the leaders in the second half of the race, until at 35 km, only Hwang andKoichi Morishita fromJapan remained. They had quite a memorable struggle, until Hwang broke free after 40 km to win a gold medal.Hwang raced sparingly after Barcelona, and he retired after injury prevented him from representing South Korea in the 1996 Olympics.
Hwang was depicted on the 2006
Berlin Marathon medal to commemorate his victory in the 1992 Olympic marathon event.South Koreans' Olympic marathon medals
Hwang was one of two Korean athletes to win the Olympic marathon. The other winner was
Sohn Kee-chung . Hwang's contemporary South Korean athleteLee Bong-Ju won the silver medal in the marathon at the1996 Summer Olympics held inAtlanta , andNam Sung-yong won the bronze medal at the1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin at the same race thatSohn Kee-chung won.ee also
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