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{{Short description|North Korean boxer (born 1969)}}
{{family name hatnote|Choe||lang=Korean}}
{{Infobox sportsperson
| birth_date       = {{birth-date and age|December 1, 1969}}
| birth_place      = [[Kaesong, North Korea]]
| headercolor      = lightsteelblue
| module2          = 
{{Infobox Korean name|child=yes
| hangul  = 최철수
| hanja   = 崔鐵洙
| rr      = Choe Cheolsu
| mr      = Ch'oe Ch'ŏlsu
| context = north
}}
| medaltemplates   = 
{{MedalSport | Men's [[boxing]] }}
{{MedalCountry | {{PRK}} }}
{{MedalCompetition | [[Boxing at the Summer Olympics|Olympic Games]] }}
{{MedalGold | [[1992 Summer Olympics|1992 Barcelona]] | [[Boxing at the 1992 Summer Olympics – Flyweight|Flyweight]] }}
{{MedalCompetition|[[World Amateur Boxing Championships|World Amateur Championships]]}}
{{MedalSilver| [[1991 World Amateur Boxing Championships|1991 Sydney]] | Flyweight}}
{{MedalCompetition|[[Asian Amateur Boxing Championships|Asian Championships]]}}
{{MedalBronze| [[Asian Amateur Boxing Championships|1992 Bangkok]] |Flyweight}}
}}

'''Choe Chol-su''' ({{Korean|hangul=최철수}}; born December 1, 1969) is a [[North Korea]]n [[boxing|boxer]] who won the gold medal in the men's Flyweight (51&nbsp;kg) category at the [[1992 Summer Olympics]] in [[Barcelona]].<ref>{{cite news|title=DPRK Sportspersons Prove Successful at Olympic Games |url=http://www.kcna.co.jp/item/2012/201208/news02/20120802-29ee.html |publisher=[[Korean Central News Agency]] |date=August 2, 2012 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140812205641/http://www.kcna.co.jp/item/2012/201208/news02/20120802-29ee.html |archivedate=August 12, 2014 }}</ref>

==Olympic results==
* Defeated [[Moustafa Esmail]] (Egypt) 7-4
* Defeated [[Paul Ingle]] (Great Britain) 13-12
* Defeated [[Robbie Peden]] (Australia) 25-11
* Defeated [[István Kovács (boxer)|István Kovács]] (Hungary) 10-5
* Defeated [[Raúl González (boxer)|Raúl González]] (Cuba) 12-2

Ingle, Peden and Kovács all went on to become professional boxing world champions.

==See also==
* [[Ku Yong-jo]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* {{cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ch/choi-chol-su-1.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418043903/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ch/choi-chol-su-1.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=2020-04-18}}
* {{Boxrec|74222}}

{{Footer Olympic Champions Boxing Flyweight}}

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[[Category:1969 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Flyweight boxers]]
[[Category:Boxers at the 1992 Summer Olympics]]
[[Category:Olympic gold medalists for North Korea]]
[[Category:Olympic boxers for North Korea]]
[[Category:Olympic medalists in boxing]]
[[Category:Medalists at the 1992 Summer Olympics]]
[[Category:Kim Il Sung University alumni]]
[[Category:North Korean male boxers]]
[[Category:AIBA World Boxing Championships medalists]]
[[Category:People from Kaesong]]

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