The present invention relates to transmitting a sounding signal in a multiple input multiple output (MIMO) wireless mobile communication system. According to the present invention, a user equipment that supports a plurality of transmitting antennas receives a plurality of uplink sounding transmission control information elements from a base station. Each of the plurality of uplink sounding transmission control information elements includes respective cyclic period information for periodically repeating sounding signal transmission and respective antenna designation information for designating one or more antennas through which the sounding signal is to be transmitted among a plurality of transmission antennas of the user equipment. The user equipment, then, transmits a sounding signal through selected number of transmission antennas according to the antenna designation information of the uplink sounding transmission control information element having the shortest cycle period among the plurality of uplink sounding transmission control information elements.