Jo Min-Ho

Jo Min-ho was born in Seoul in 1987. Jo attended Kyunggi High School and Korea University and he also played ice hockey for Anyang Halla. With the team, Jo won the Korea National Ice Hockey Championships five times between 2009 and 2021, as well as the Korea National Ice Hockey Championships on six occasions. For the team, Jo scored 124 goals and made 324 assists in 393 matches, a league record for a Korean player.

In 2008, Jo joined the South Korean national ice hockey team. With the team Jo had international success at the Asian Winter Games, with a bronze medal in 2011, and a silver medal in 2017. The following year, Jo was part of South Korea’s ice hockey team at the 2018 PyeongChang Olympics. At the games Jo became the first player for South Korea to score a goal in an ice hockey match at the Olympics. Jo spent a total of 14 years playing for the national team, with his last matches being in the qualifiers for the 2022 Beijing Olympics.

Jo died in a hospital in Seoul at the age of 35 after a battle with lung cancer.