Ku Yong-jo was a boxer from North Korea, who won the gold medal in the bantamweight (-54 kg) division at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. In the final, he defeated American boxer Charles Mooney.
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Ku Yong-jo was a boxer from North Korea, who won the gold medal in the bantamweight (-54 kg) division at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. In the final, he defeated American boxer Charles Mooney. In 1980, he competed in the featherweight division and, after receiving a first-round bye, lost his first bout to Krzysztof Kosedowski of Poland.
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deceased
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Lived 1955 to 2001 · aged 46
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