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Hwang Young-Cho (born March 22, 1970) is a former South Korean athlete, winner of the marathon race at the 1992 Summer Olympics.
Born in Samcheok, South Korea, Hwang Young-Cho was a promising track athlete in his junior years, but after his first marathon in 1991, which he won, desided to specialize to marathon.
The Barcelona Olympic marathon was only fourth of his career. From the first three, he had won two and placed second on a third occasion. in Barcelona Hwang was in the leading pack from the start, but in a slowly run race, this group still numbered thirty runners at the halfway mark. However, runners gradually lost contact with the leaders in the second half of the race, until at 35 km, only Hwang and Koichi Morishita from Japan remained. They had a quite mamorable struggle, until Hwang broke free after 40 km to win a gold medal.
Hwang raced sparingly after Barcelona, and he retired after injury prevented him from gaining a place on the 1996Games of the XXVI Olympiad Nations participating197 Athletes participating10,320 (6,797 men, 3,523 women) Events271 in 26 sports Opening ceremonies July 19, 1996 Closing ceremonies August 4, 1996 Officially opened by President Bill Clinton Athlete's Oath South Korean Olympic team.
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