Gu Yong-ju

Gu Yong-ju (born July 17, 1955 ) is a former boxer from North Korea and 1976 Olympic bantamweight champion .

The 1.72 m tall Gu Yong-ju won the flyweight gold medal at the 7th Asian Games in Tehran in 1974 . In 1976 he started in bantamweight at the 21st Summer Olympics in Montreal , where he won 4-1 in the preliminary round, Ibrahim Faredin from Romania 4-1, in the round of 16 the European runner-up Chacho Andreykowski from Bulgaria 5-0, in the quarterfinals Weerachart Saturngrun from Thailand 5-0 , defeated Patrick Cowdell from Great Britain 4-1 in the semifinals and Charles Mooney from the USA 5-0 in the final and won the gold medal in the bantamweight division.

In 1977 he won another gold medal in featherweight at the International Police Championships in Ulaanbaatar , as well as the bronze medal at the Asian Championships of the same year in Jakarta .

At the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow he started in the featherweight division and was already defeated in his first fight against the later bronze medalist Krzysztof Kosedowski from Poland.

Web links

• Gu Yong-ju in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• BoxRec

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 7th Asian Games in Tehran, Iran, September 1-16 1974
2. ↑ 18th Police Championships in Ulan Baatar, Mongolia, September 1977
3. ↑ 8th Asian Championships in Jakarta, Indonesia, October 13-20 1977

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, Yong-ju is the first name.