Cho Chi-hyo

Cho Chi-hyo (born December 6, 1970 in Incheon, South Korea) is a South Korean handball player who is current playing for HBW Balingen-Weilstetten in the Handball-Bundesliga.[1]

Cho Chi-hyo
Personal information
Born	December 6, 1970 Incheon, South Korea
Nationality	South Korea
Height	1.94 m (6 ft 4 in)
Playing position	Manager (Former Right Back)
Club information
Current club	IDTC Handball Club
Senior clubs
Years	Team
1994–2004	Pfadi Winterthur
2004–2006	K. Schaffhausen
2006–2007	Wacker Thun
2007–2009	HBW Balingen
2009–2010	Incheon DTC
National team ^1
Years	Team
1989–2010	South Korea
Medal record Asian Games 1994 Hiroshima Team Competition
^1 National team caps and goals correct as of 13 January 2009

Cho Chi-hyo
Hangul	조치효
Revised Romanization	Jo Chihyo
McCune–Reischauer	Cho Ch'ihyo

Cho was a runner-up for top goal scorer (45 goals in 6 games) at the 1992 Summer Olympics held in Barcelona, Spain, where the South Korea men's national handball team finished in the 6th place. He was eventually named to the All-Star Team of the competition.

After winning a gold medal at the 1994 Asian Games in Hiroshima, Japan, he moved to the Swiss Handball League in October 1994. For 13 years in Switzerland, he led his teams to the league champions eight times, winning two scoring titles and one league MVP.

In 2007, Cho moved to Germany to play for HBW Balingen-Weilstetten in the Handball-Bundesliga. In 2008, he was selected for the South Korea men's national handball team at the age of 38, and led his team to the quarterfinals of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China.

References

1. The players' profiles in the HBW Balingen-Weilstetten official site Archived 2009-01-20 at the Wayback Machine (Retrieved on June 30, 2008)

External links

• Cho Chi-hyo on Cyworld (in Korean)