Jo Giseong
Appearance
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Nationality | South Korean | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Seoul, South Korea | 20 December 1995||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Hangul | 조기성 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Revised Romanization | Jo Giseong | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
McCune–Reischauer | Cho Kisŏng | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Disability class | S4 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Jo Giseong (born 20 December 1995) is a Paralympic swimmer from South Korea competing in the S4 classification.
Career
[edit]He came to prominence at the 2014 Asian Para Games and cemented his reputation with two golds at the 2015 IPC Swimming World Championships in Glasgow where he won two gold medals in the 100m and 200m freestyle events.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ "IPC Swimming Giseong Jo". IPC. Retrieved 7 August 2016.
Categories:
- 1995 births
- Living people
- Paralympic swimmers for South Korea
- World record holders in paralympic swimming
- S4-classified para swimmers
- Medalists at the World Para Swimming Championships
- Swimmers at the 2020 Summer Paralympics
- South Korean male freestyle swimmers
- 21st-century South Korean people
- Medalists at the 2018 Asian Para Games
- Medalists at the 2022 Asian Para Games
- South Korean swimming biography stubs