Cho Jung-hui is a former international

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player from

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Table tennis career

She won three

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medals. She won a

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at the

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in the Corbillon Cup (women's team event). Four years later she won a

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in the women's team and during the 1987 World Table Tennis Championships she won a bronze in the women's doubles with Ri Pun-hui.

References

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