Gu Bon-gil

Gu Bon-gil medal table
Gu Bon-gil (2015)
fencing
South Korea
Olympic games
gold	London 2012	Saber crew
World championships
bronze	Catania 2011	saber
bronze	Budapest 2013	Saber crew
silver	Kazan 2014	saber
silver	Kazan 2014	Saber crew
silver	Leipzig 2017	saber
gold	Leipzig 2017	Saber crew
gold	Wuxi 2018	Saber crew
gold	Budapest 2019	Saber crew
Asian Games
gold	Guangzhou 2010	saber
silver	Guangzhou 2010	Saber crew
gold	Incheon 2014	saber
gold	Incheon 2014	Saber crew
gold	Jakarta 2018	saber
gold	Jakarta 2018	Saber crew
Asian Championships
gold	Seoul 2010	saber
silver	Seoul 2010	Saber crew
silver	Seoul 2011	saber
gold	Seoul 2011	Saber crew
gold	Wakayama 2012	saber
silver	Wakayama 2012	Saber crew
gold	Shanghai 2013	saber
gold	Shanghai 2013	Saber crew
gold	Suwon 2014	saber
gold	Suwon 2014	Saber crew
silver	Singapore 2015	saber
gold	Singapore 2015	Saber crew
gold	Wuxi 2016	Saber crew
gold	Hong Kong 2017	saber
gold	Hong Kong 2017	Saber crew
gold	Bangkok 2018	saber
bronze	Bangkok 2018	Saber crew
gold	Tokyo 2019	Saber crew
Universiade
silver	Shenzhen 2011	saber
bronze	Shenzhen 2011	Saber crew

Korean spelling
Hangeul	구본길
Hanja	具 本 佶
Revised Romanization	Gu Bongil
McCune- Reischauer	Ku Pon'gil
See also : Korean name

Gu Bon-gil (born April 27, 1989 in Seoul ) is a South Korean saber fencer , Olympic champion and world champion.

successes

Gu Bon-gil started fencing in 2002 and made his international debut in 2009.

The right-hander has enjoyed countless successes on a continental scale. At the Asian Championships he was a total of 14 times Asian champion, six times in the individual and eight times with the team. He won his first medal in 2010 in his hometown Seoul , where he immediately became Asian champion in individual and finished second with the team. In the following year he also won gold and silver in the same place, only this time the other way around: in the individual he was runner-up, while he celebrated the title wins with the team. In 2012 he repeated his success from 2010 in Wakayama and became Asian champion in singles, but with the team he missed the title. In both 2013 in Shanghai and 2014 in Suwon , he won gold in both individual and team competitions. In 2015 he finished second in the singles in Singapore and the year after that in Wuxi for the first time he not only missed the final at an Asian championship, but remained without a medal in the singles. He won the team competitions. At the 2017 championships in Hong Kong , Gu achieved double success for the third time with gold in singles and with the team. He successfully defended his individual title in Bangkok in 2018 , whereas he won his first bronze at the Asian Championships with the team.

At the Asian Games , Gu was the dominant saber fencer in all of his appearances. He erfocht both in 2010 in Guangzhou and 2,014 in Incheon and 2018 in Jakarta each gold medal. He also achieved this success with the team at the 2014 and 2018 games. In 2010, the team lost to China in the final and thus won the silver medal.

At the international level, Gu had been successful at the Universiade in 2011 , he won silver in the individual and bronze with the team. In the same year he achieved his first success at world championships . In 2011 he won bronze in the individual in Catania and in 2013 in Budapest . In 2014 , he won the silver medal in both individual and team competitions. Another individual silver medal followed in Leipzig in 2017 . With the team, however, he became world champion for the first time and defended this title the following year in Wuxi and in Budapest in 2019 .

At the Olympic Games in London in 2012 , Gu won the gold medal with the team, in individual he finished 10th after a loss in the round of 16 against Max Hartung . Even when he took part in the Olympics for the second time four years later, he failed to win an individual medal. He failed in the second round to Mojtaba Abedini and finished the games in 9th place. The team competition in saber fencing was not part of the program in 2016. Gu was the flag bearer of the South Korean delegation at the opening ceremony of the Games. Gu has also been world number leader in the saber several times.

Web links

Commons : Gu Bon-gil  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• Gu Bon-gil - Rankings and Results in the database of the Fédération Internationale d'Escrime (English / French)
• Gu Bon-gil in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Gu Bon-gil. Fédération Internationale d'Escrime , accessed on November 1, 2018 . 
2. ↑ James Diamond: World number one Bongil Gu wins sixth Asian Fencing Championship title. In: insidethegames.biz. June 19, 2018, accessed November 1, 2018 . 
3. ↑ Yoo Jee-ho: Gu Bon-gil wins men's saber fencing gold in all S. Korean final. In: yonhapnews.co.kr. Yonhap News Agency , August 20, 2018, accessed November 1, 2018 . 
4. ↑ Daniel Bases: Fencing: Unfancied South Korea win men's saber gold. In: reuters.com. Reuters , August 4, 2012, accessed November 1, 2018 . 
5. ^ Fencer Gu named South Korea flag bearer for Rio. In: reuters.com. Reuters , July 19, 2016, accessed November 1, 2018 . 

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Gu is the family name here, Bon-gil is the first name.