Won Woo-young
Appearance
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Born | 3 February 1982 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | South Korea | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Fencing | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Hangul | 원우영 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hanja | 元禹寧 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Revised Romanization | Won Uyeong | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
McCune–Reischauer | Wŏn Uyŏng | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Won Woo-young (Hangul: 원우영; Korean pronunciation: [wʌn.u.jʌŋ]; born 3 February 1982) is a South Korean sabre fencer.
He won the bronze medal at the sabre 2006 World Fencing Championships, after losing 15-10 to Zsolt Nemcsik in the semi-final. At the sabre 2010 World Fencing Championships, he won the gold medal, beating Nicolas Limbach 15 – 9 in the final.
He competed as part of the South Korean team at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the men's team sabre, where he won a gold medal.[1] In the men's individual event he lost in the last 16 to Nikolay Kovalev, the eventual bronze medallist.
Achievements
- 2010 World Fencing Championships, sabre
- 2006 World Fencing Championships, sabre
- 2012 Summer Olympics, Team sabre
References
- ^ "Won Wu-yeong Olympic Results". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 2020-04-17. Retrieved 2013-08-07.
External links
- Won Woo-young at FIE
Categories:
- 1982 births
- Living people
- South Korean male fencers
- Fencers from Seoul
- Fencers at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Olympic fencers of South Korea
- Olympic gold medalists for South Korea
- Olympic medalists in fencing
- Medalists at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Asian Games medalists in fencing
- Fencers at the 2006 Asian Games
- Fencers at the 2010 Asian Games
- South Korean sabre fencers
- Fencers at the 2014 Asian Games
- Asian Games gold medalists for South Korea
- Asian Games silver medalists for South Korea
- Medalists at the 2006 Asian Games
- Medalists at the 2010 Asian Games
- Medalists at the 2014 Asian Games
- South Korean Buddhists
- South Korean fencing biography stubs
- South Korean Olympic medalist stubs