Jo Seok-Hwan | |
Fullname: | 조석환 (hangul) 趙石煥 (hanja) |
Weight Class: | Featherweight |
Birth Date: | 15 October 1979 |
Height: | 1.70NaN0 |
Weight: | 54kg (119lb) |
Jo Seok-Hwan (; born October 15, 1979) is a retired South Korean amateur boxer.He participated in the 2000 Summer Olympics for his native East Asian country. There he was stopped in the first round of the Bantamweight (54 kg) division by Uzbekistan' Alisher Rahimov.Later Jo won the bronze medal in the Featherweight (57 kg) division at the 2003 World Amateur Boxing Championships in Bangkok.
He participated in the 2004 Summer Olympics, and won the bronze medal. He qualified for the Athens Games by winning the silver medal at the 2004 Asian Amateur Boxing Championships in Puerto Princesa, Philippines. In the final he was defeated by Kazakhstan's Galib Jafarov.
In December 2008, Jo retired from boxing. He is currently serving as an assistant coach of the South Korea national boxing team.
2003 World Championships | |||||||||
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style='border-style: none none solid solid; background: #e3e3e3; width: 20%' | Event | style='border-style: none none solid solid; background: #e3e3e3; width: 20%' | Round | style='border-style: none none solid solid; background: #e3e3e3; width: 10%' | Result | style='border-style: none none solid solid; background: #e3e3e3; width: 35%' | Opponent | style='border-style: none none solid solid; background: #e3e3e3; width: 15%' | Score |
align='center' | First | Win | align='left' | David Mulholland | align='left' | 31-16 | |||
align='center' | Second | Win | align='left' | Ovidiu Bobirnat | align='left' | 25-14 | |||
align='center' | Quarterfinal | Win | align='left' | Aleksei Tishchenko | align='left' | 40-18 | |||
align='center'; bgcolor="#cc9966" | Semifinal | Loss | align='left' | Galib Jafarov | align='left' | 32-17 | |||
2004 Summer Olympics | |||||||||
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style='border-style: none none solid solid; background: #e3e3e3; width: 20%' | Event | style='border-style: none none solid solid; background: #e3e3e3; width: 20%' | Round | style='border-style: none none solid solid; background: #e3e3e3; width: 10%' | Result | style='border-style: none none solid solid; background: #e3e3e3; width: 35%' | Opponent | style='border-style: none none solid solid; background: #e3e3e3; width: 15%' | Score |
align='center' | First | Win | align='left' | Sedat Tasci | align='left' | 37-28 | |||
align='center' | Second | Win | align='left' | Benoit Gaudet | align='left' | 28-16 | |||
align='center' | Quarterfinal | Win | align='left' | Viorel Simion | align='left' | 39-35 | |||
align='center'; bgcolor="#cc9966" | Semifinal | Loss | align='left' | Aleksei Tishchenko | align='left' | 25-45 | |||