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)
Seoul, South Korea
Height1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight70 kg (154 lb)
Sport
CountrySouth Korea
SportFencing
WeaponSabre
Handright-handed
ClubKorea Sports Promotion Foundation
FIE rankingcurrent ranking
Medal record
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2012 London Team
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2017 Leipzig Team
Gold medal – first place 2018 Wuxi Team
Gold medal – first place 2019 Budapest Team
Silver medal – second place 2014 Kazan Individual
Silver medal – second place 2014 Kazan Team
Silver medal – second place 2017 Leipzig Individual
Bronze medal – third place 2011 Catania Individual
Bronze medal – third place 2013 Budapest Team
Asian Games
Gold medal – first place 2010 Guangzhou Individual
Gold medal – first place 2014 Incheon Individual
Gold medal – first place 2018 Jakarta Individual
Gold medal – first place 2014 Incheon Team
Gold medal – first place 2018 Jakarta Team
Silver medal – second place 2010 Guangzhou Team
Asian Championships
Gold medal – first place 2010 Seoul Individual
Gold medal – first place 2011 Seoul Team
Gold medal – first place 2012 Wakayama Individual
Gold medal – first place 2013 Shanghai Individual
Gold medal – first place 2013 Shanghai Team
Gold medal – first place 2014 Suwon Individual
Gold medal – first place 2014 Suwon Team
Gold medal – first place 2015 Singapore Team
Gold medal – first place 2016 Wuxi Team
Gold medal – first place 2017 Hong Kong Individual
Gold medal – first place 2017 Hong Kong Team
Silver medal – second place 2010 Seoul Team sabre
Silver medal – second place 2011 Seoul Individual
Silver medal – second place 2012 Wakayama Team
Silver medal – second place 2015 Singapore Individual
Universiade
Silver medal – second place 2011 Shenzhen Individual
Bronze medal – third place 2011 Shenzhen Team
In this Korean name, the family name is Gu.

Gu Bon-gil (Korean pronunciation: [ku.bon.ɡil] or [ku] [pon.ɡil]; 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]

He took up fencing in 2002 in Daegu.[3]

At the 2011 World Fencing Championships, he won the bronze medal, losing to Aldo Montano in the semifinal.[4] At the 2014 World Fencing Championships he won silver in the individual event, losing to Nikolay Kovalev in the final. [5] He also won silver in the team event, along with Kim Jung-hwan, Won Woo-Young and Oh Eun-seok.[6]

Gu finished the 2013–14 season ranked #1 in the world,[7] 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. [8] He maintained his world #1 rank to the end of the 2014–15 season to claim his second World Cup title.[9]

Gu is also the 2010, 2012 and 2014 Asian Champion, [10] as well as the 2010 and 2014 Asian Games champion. [11]

In 2016, Gu Bon-gil made a guest appearance in Got7's Hard Carry, a reality show, where he played against Jackson Wang and lost.[12] That year he was also the flagbearer for South Korea at the 2016 Olympics.[3]

He again won gold in the team sabre at the 2017 World Championships, along with silver in the individual event.[3]

References

  1. ^ London2012.com Archived 1 August 2012 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ "Bongil Gu". BBC Sport. Retrieved 11 September 2012.
  3. ^ a b c "GU BON-GIL Biography".
  4. ^ "Photo Galleries". Yahoo! Sport. Retrieved 11 September 2012.
  5. ^ "Nikolai Kovalev of St. Petersburg Wins Gold at World Fencing Championships". Russkiy Mir Foundation Information Service. Retrieved 15 July 2015.
  6. ^ "World Championships 2014 - Aktive Herrensäbel Team - CHM Seniors (FIE)". Ophardt Team Sportevent. Archived from the original on 15 July 2015. Retrieved 15 July 2015.
  7. ^ "Fencer - GU Bongil". FIE. Retrieved 15 July 2015.
  8. ^ "Fencer - GU Bongil details of points". FIE. Archived from the original on 5 November 2018. Retrieved 15 July 2015.
  9. ^ "Fencer - GU Bongil". FIE. Retrieved 15 July 2015.
  10. ^ "(Asian Games) S Korea golden in baseball, weightlifting, taekwondo, fencing". Yonhap News Agency. Retrieved 11 September 2012.
  11. ^ "Asian Games athlete record". 17th Asian Games Incheon. Archived from the original on 15 July 2015. Retrieved 15 July 2015.
  12. ^ M2 (21 November 2016), [GOT7's Hard Carry] Special fencing match between Jackson and Gu bon gil Ep.6 Part 4, retrieved 23 November 2016{{citation}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)

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