| Hwang Young-cho | |
| Birth Date: | 22 March 1970 |
| Birth Place: | Samcheok, Gangwon Province, South Korea |
| Hangul: | 황영조 |
| Hanja: | 黃永祚 |
| Rr: | Hwang Yeong-jo |
| Mr: | Hwang Yŏngcho |
| Koreanipa: | pronounced as /ko/ |
Hwang Young-cho (born 22 March 1970) is a former South Korean athlete, winner of the marathon race at the 1992 Summer Olympics and 1994 Asian Games.
Born in Samcheok, South Korea, Hwang was a promising track athlete in his junior years, but after his first marathon in 1991, which he won, he decided to specialize in marathon.
The Barcelona Olympic marathon was only the fourth of his career. He had won two and placed second in his three previous marathons. In Barcelona, Hwang was in the leading pack from the start, but in a slow race, this group still numbered thirty runners at the halfway mark. However, athletes gradually fell off the pace as the second half of the race went on, until at 35 km, only Hwang and Kōichi Morishita from Japan remained. They had quite a memorable struggle, until Hwang broke away at the 40 km mark to win the gold medal.
Hwang raced sparingly after Barcelona, and he retired after injury prevented him from representing South Korea in the 1996 Olympics.
Hwang was depicted on the 2006 Berlin Marathon medal to commemorate his victory in the 1992 Olympic marathon event.
Hwang is one of two Koreans to have won the Olympic marathon. The other winner was Sohn Kee-chung. Hwang's contemporary, Lee Bong-Ju won the silver medal in the marathon at the 1996 Summer Olympics held in Atlanta, and Nam Sung-yong won the bronze medal at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin at the same race that Sohn Kee-chung won.