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Cho Sung-man

South Korean skating coach

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 18, 2026
Entity authorityQ18207808
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Cho Sung-man (Korean: 조성만) is a South Korean figure skating coach. He has coached skaters including Park Bit-na, Kim Na-young, and Park Yun-joon in both national and international competitions.

He currently serves as a coach and as Director of the Incheon Skating Federation. Cho has also been involved in a cultural skating exchange program with East West Ice Palace in Artesia, California. As part of this initiative, he has collaborated with coaches such as Jean Yun, Peter Oppegard, and Karen Kwan-Oppegard to provide South Korean skaters with training opportunities.

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This entry incorporates text from Cho Sung-man” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.