Cho Sung-mo

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Cho Sung-mo
Personal information
Nationality  South Korea
Born 6 January 1985
Height 1.74 m (5 ft 8 1⁄2 in)
Weight 72 kg (159 lb)
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Freestyle
Coach Jack Simon (USA)[1]
Cho Sung-mo
Hangul 조성모
Hanja 趙成模
Revised Romanization Jo Seongmo
McCune–Reischauer Cho Sŏngmo
This is a Korean name; the family name is Cho.

Cho Sung-mo (also Jo Seong-mo, Korean: 조성모; born January 6, 1985) is a retired South Korean swimmer, who specialized in long-distance freestyle events.[2] He established a South Korean record of 15:12.32 to earn a silver medal in the 1500 m freestyle at the 2002 Asian Games in Busan.[1] During his swimming career, Cho has been training most of the time between the United States and Mexico, under veteran coach and long-time mentor Jack Simon.[1]

Cho made his official debut, as South Korea's youngest male swimmer (aged 15), at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, where he competed in the 1500 m freestyle. He placed thirty-third overall in the preliminary heats with a time of 15:50.45.[3]

At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Cho qualified again for the men's 1500 m freestyle by posting a FINA B-standard entry time of 15:19.49 from the Summer Universiade in Daegu.[4][5] He challenged seven other swimmers on the third heat, including top medal favorite David Davies of Great Britain. Cho rounded out the field to last place by a 13.38-second margin behind Russia's Alexey Filipets in 15:43.43. Cho failed to advance into the final, as he placed twenty-fifth overall in the preliminaries.[6][7]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "China and Japan Share the Gold on Day 5 of Asian Games; China's Wu and Xu Shine". Swimming World Magazine. 4 October 2002. Retrieved 22 April 2013.
  2. ↑ "Cho Sung-mo". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 22 April 2013.
  3. ↑ "Sydney 2000: Swimming – Men's 1500m Freestyle Heat 3" (PDF). Sydney 2000. LA84 Foundation. p. 143. Retrieved 26 March 2013.
  4. ↑ "Swimming – Men's 1500m Freestyle Startlist (Heat 3)" (PDF). Athens 2004. Omega Timing. Retrieved 24 March 2013.
  5. ↑ Jeffrey, Josh (31 August 2003). "Klochkova Leads Ukraine to Team Crown at World University Games, USA Is Second". Swimming World Magazine. Retrieved 22 April 2013.
  6. ↑ "Men's 1500m Freestyle Heat 3". Athens 2004. BBC Sport. 20 August 2004. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
  7. ↑ Thomas, Stephen (20 August 2004). "Men's 1500 Freestyle, Prelims Day 7: David Davies Fastest, Posts British Record 14:57.03". Swimming World Magazine. Retrieved 22 April 2013.