Cho Byung-Kwan (born May 5, 1981) is a male freestyle wrestler from

South Korea South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and sharing a Korean Demilitarized Zone, land border with North Korea. Its western border is formed ...

. He participated in Men's freestyle 74 kg at

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. In the 1/16 of final he lost to

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, but he got to the

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round. There he beat

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, but then lost to Iván Fundora and was eliminated.

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