Gu Bon-gil

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Gu Bon-gil
Gu at the 2013 World Championships
Personal information
Born (1989-04-27) 27 April 1989 (age 35)
Sport
SportFencing
Coached byLee Hyo-kun
Korean name
Hangul
구본길
Hanja
具本佶
Revised RomanizationGu Bongil
McCune–ReischauerKu Pon'gil
Achievements and titles
Highest world ranking1
Medal record
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2012 London Team sabre
World Championships
Silver medal – second place 2014 Kazan Individual
Silver medal – second place 2014 Kazan Team sabre
Bronze medal – third place 2011 Catania Individual
Bronze medal – third place 2013 Budapest Team sabre
Asian Games
Gold medal – first place 2010 Guangzhou Individual
Gold medal – first place 2014 Incheon Individual
Gold medal – first place 2014 Incheon Team sabre
Silver medal – second place 2010 Guangzhou Team sabre
Asian Championships
Gold medal – first place 2010 Seoul Individual
Gold medal – first place 2011 Seoul Team sabre
Gold medal – first place 2012 Wakayama Individual
Gold medal – first place 2014 Suwon City Individual
Gold medal – first place 2015 Singapore Team sabre
Silver medal – second place 2015 Singapore Individual
Universiade
Silver medal – second place 2011 Shenzhen Individual
Bronze medal – third place 2011 Shenzhen Team sabre

Template:Korean name

Gu Bon-gil (born 27 April 1989) is a South Korean fencer.[1] At the 2012 Summer Olympics, he competed as part of the South Korean team in the Men's team sabre, where he won a gold medal. In the individual event he was defeated in the third round.[2]

At the 2011 World Fencing Championships, he won the bronze medal, losing to Aldo Montano in the semifinal.[3] At the 2014 World Fencing Championships he won silver in the individual event, losing to Nikolay Kovalev in the final. [4] He also won silver in the team event, along with Kim Jung-hwan, Won Woo-Young and Oh Eun-seok.[5]

Gu finished the 2013-14 season ranked #1 in the world,[6] claiming Korea's first Fencing World Cup title. In the 2014–15 Fencing World Cup he won gold at the Coupe de Monde in Budapest, the Sabre de Wolodyjowski in Warsaw and the Villa de Madrid in Madrid, before finishing 5th at the 2015 World Fencing Championships in Moscow. [7] He maintained his world #1 rank to the end of the 2014-15 season to claim his second World Cup title.[8]

Gu is also the 2010, 2012 and 2014 Asian Champion, [9] as well as the 2010 and 2014 Asian Games champion. [10]

References

  1. ^ London2012.com
  2. ^ "Bongil Gu". BBC Sport. Retrieved 11 September 2012.
  3. ^ "Photo Galleries". Yahoo! Sport. Retrieved 11 September 2012.
  4. ^ "Nikolai Kovalev of St. Petersburg Wins Gold at World Fencing Championships". Russkiy Mir Foundation Information Service. Retrieved 15 July 2015.
  5. ^ "World Championships 2014 - Aktive Herrensäbel Team - CHM Seniors (FIE)". Ophardt Team Sportevent. Retrieved 15 July 2015.
  6. ^ "Fencer - GU Bongil". FIE. Retrieved 15 July 2015.
  7. ^ "Fencer - GU Bongil details of points". FIE. Retrieved 15 July 2015.
  8. ^ "Fencer - GU Bongil". FIE. Retrieved 15 July 2015.
  9. ^ "(Asian Games) S Korea golden in baseball, weightlifting, taekwondo, fencing". Yonhap News Agency. Retrieved 11 September 2012.
  10. ^ "Asian Games athlete record". 17th Asian Games Incheon. Retrieved 15 July 2015.


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