Cho Yong-Chul (born 7 May 1961) is a South Korean

judoka is an unarmed modern Japanese martial art, Olympic sport (since 1964), and the most prominent form of jacket wrestling competed internationally.『日本大百科全書』電子版【柔道】(CD-ROM version of Encyclopedia Nipponica, "Judo"). ...

. At the

1985 World Judo Championships The 1985 World Judo Championships were the 14th edition of the World Judo Championships, and were held in Seoul, South Korea South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia, constituting the southern part of ...

in Seoul, Cho won a gold medal, beating double Olympic champion

Hitoshi Saito was a Japanese judoka who won two consecutive gold medals at the Olympic games.

by armlock submission in the final. Cho won two Olympic bronze medals in the heavyweight division at the

1984 Events January * January 1 – The Bornean Sultanate of Brunei gains full independence from the United Kingdom, having become a British protectorate in 1888. * January 7 – Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeast A ...

and

1988 File:1988 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The oil platform Piper Alpha explodes and collapses in the North Sea, killing 165 workers; The USS Vincennes (CG-49) mistakenly shoots down Iran Air Flight 655; Australia celebrates its Australian ...

Olympic Games.

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* * * * 1961 births Living people Judoka at the 1984 Summer Olympics Judoka at the 1988 Summer Olympics Olympic judoka for South Korea Olympic bronze medalists for South Korea Olympic medalists in judo Asian Games medalists in judo Judoka at the 1986 Asian Games South Korean male judoka Medalists at the 1988 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 1984 Summer Olympics Asian Games silver medalists for South Korea Medalists at the 1986 Asian Games 20th-century South Korean people 21st-century South Korean people {{SouthKorea-judo-bio-stub