Career
Cha also added three more medals (one gold and two silver) to his collection from the Asian Wrestling Championships. Cha represented North of Korea at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where he competed for the men"s 55 kg class. He received a bye for the preliminary round of sixteen match, before losing out to Cuba"s Yagnier Hernández, who was able to score nine points in two straight periods, leaving Cha with a single point.