Chae Ji-hoon (

Hangul The Korean alphabet, known as Hangul, . Hangul may also be written as following South Korea's standard Romanization. ( ) in South Korea and Chosŏn'gŭl in North Korea, is the modern official writing system for the Korean language. The l ...

: 채지훈;

Hanja Hanja (Hangul: ; Hanja: , ), alternatively known as Hancha, are Chinese characters () used in the writing of Korean. Hanja was used as early as the Gojoseon period, the first ever Korean kingdom. (, ) refers to Sino-Korean vocabulary, ...

: 蔡智薰; born 5 March 1974) is a retired

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 ...

n short track speed skater

Skating career

Chae won a gold medal in the 500 m and a silver medal in 1000 m at the

1994 Winter Olympics The 1994 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XVII Olympic Winter Games ( no, De 17. olympiske vinterleker; nn, Dei 17. olympiske vinterleikane) and commonly known as Lillehammer '94, was an international winter multi-sport event held fr ...

Lillehammer Lillehammer () is a municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Gudbrandsdal. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Lillehammer. Some of the more notable villages in the munic ...

. He is the 1995 Overall World Champion. He then won a silver medal in 5000 m relay at the

1998 Winter Olympics The 1998 Winter Olympics, officially known as the and commonly known as Nagano 1998 ( ja, 長野1998), was a winter multi-sport event held from 7 to 22 February 1998, mainly in Nagano, Japan, with some events taking place in th ...

in Nagano.

Post career

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at Daum 1974 births Living people South Korean male short track speed skaters Olympic short track speed skaters of South Korea Olympic gold medalists for South Korea Olympic silver medalists for South Korea Olympic medalists in short track speed skating Short track speed skaters at the 1994 Winter Olympics Short track speed skaters at the 1998 Winter Olympics Medalists at the 1994 Winter Olympics Medalists at the 1998 Winter Olympics Asian Games medalists in short track speed skating Asian Games gold medalists for South Korea Asian Games silver medalists for South Korea Short track speed skaters at the 1996 Asian Winter Games Medalists at the 1996 Asian Winter Games Yonsei University alumni Universiade gold medalists for South Korea Universiade medalists in short track speed skating Competitors at the 1995 Winter Universiade Competitors at the 1997 Winter Universiade 20th-century South Korean people {{SouthKorea-Winter-Olympic-medalist-stub