Cho Sung-mo, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Cho Sung-mo

Olympic swimmer

Date of Birth: 06-Jan-1985

Place of Birth: Gyeonggi Province, South Korea

Profession: swimmer

Nationality: South Korea

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn


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About Cho Sung-mo

  • Cho Sung-mo (also Jo Seong-mo, Korean: ???; born January 6, 1985) is a South Korean former swimmer, who specialized in long-distance freestyle events.
  • 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.
  • 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.Cho made his Olympic debut, as South Korea's youngest male swimmer (aged 15), at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney.
  • Swimming in heat three of the men's 1500 m freestyle, Cho faded down the stretch to round out the field in last place and thirty-third overall on the morning prelims in 15:50.45.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.
  • 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.

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