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| Born | August 13, 1981 (age 42) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Hangul | 조남석 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Hanja | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Revised Romanization | Jo Namseok | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| McCune–Reischauer | Cho Namsŏk | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Cho Nam-suk (born August 13, 1981) is a male South Korean judoka.
At the 2005 World Judo Championships in Cairo he won a bronze medal in the extra lightweight competition. [1]
He won a gold medal at the -60 kg category of the 2005 Asian Judo Championships in Tashkent.
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