Cho Sung-min (also ''Jo Seong-min'', ko, 조성민; born January 29, 1987, in

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) is a South Korean sailor, who specialized in two-person dinghy (

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) and open match racing classes. He claimed a bronze medal, as a member of the South Korean sailing team, in match racing at the 2010 Asian Games, and later represented

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at the 2012 Summer Olympics. As of September 2013, Cho is ranked no. 134 in the world for two-person dinghy class by the International Sailing Federation. Cho made his official debut at the 2010 Asian Games in

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, where he captured a bronze medal for the South Korean team in a match duel against the host nation China with a scintillating record of 3–1. At the 2012 Summer Olympics in

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, Cho competed as a boat crew member in the men's 470 class after receiving a berth from the World Championships in Barcelona, Spain. Teaming with his partner and skipper Park Gun-woo in the opening series, Cho pulled off a twenty-second-place finish in a fleet of twenty-seven boats with an accumulated net score of 169 points.

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