Hwang Young-cho (born 22 March 1970) is a former South Korean athlete, winner of the marathon race at the 1992 Summer Olympics and 1994 Asian Games.

In Barcelona, Hwang was in the leading pack from the start, but in a slow race, this group still numbered thirty runners at the halfway mark.

However, athletes gradually fell off the pace as the second half of the race went on, until at 35 km, only Hwang and Kōichi Morishita from Japan remained.

They had quite a memorable struggle, until Hwang broke away at the 40 km mark to win the gold medal.

Hwang raced sparingly after Barcelona, and he retired after injury prevented him from representing South Korea in the 1996 Olympics.