Cho Sung-mo

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Cho Sung-mo
Personal information
Full name Cho Sung-mo
National team  South Korea
Born (1985-01-06) 6 January 1985
Gyeonggi-do, South Korea
Height 1.74 m (5 ft 9 in)
Weight 72 kg (159 lb)
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Freestyle
Coach Jack Simon (U.S.)[1]
Cho Sung-mo
Hangul 조성모
Hanja 趙成模
Revised Romanization Jo Seongmo
McCune–Reischauer Cho Sŏngmo
This is a Korean name; the family name is Cho.

Cho Sung-mo (also Jo Seong-mo, Korean: 조성모; born January 6, 1985) is a South Korean former swimmer, who specialized in long-distance freestyle events.[2] 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.[1] 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.[1]

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.[3][4]

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.[5][6] 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.[7][8]

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