Kim Jung-hwan

Kim Jung-hwan medal table
Kim Jung-hwan (2015)
fencing
South Korea
Olympic games
gold	London 2012	Saber crew
bronze	Rio de Janeiro 2016	saber
World championships
bronze	Budapest 2013	Saber crew
silver	Kazan 2014	Saber crew
gold	Leipzig 2017	Saber crew
gold	Wuxi 2018	saber
gold	Wuxi 2018	Saber crew
Asian Games
gold	Guangzhou 2010	Saber crew
silver	Incheon 2014	saber
gold	Incheon 2014	Saber crew
Asian Championships
bronze	Nantong 2007	saber
silver	Nantong 2007	Saber crew
gold	Doha 2009	saber
bronze	Doha 2009	Saber crew
silver	Seoul 2010	Saber crew
gold	Seoul 2011	Saber crew
bronze	Wakayama 2012	saber
silver	Wakayama 2012	Saber crew
silver	Shanghai 2013	saber
gold	Shanghai 2013	Saber crew
gold	Suwon 2014	Saber crew
gold	Singapore 2015	saber
gold	Singapore 2015	Saber crew
gold	Wuxi 2016	saber
gold	Wuxi 2016	Saber crew
gold	Hong Kong 2017	Saber crew
silver	Bangkok 2018	saber
bronze	Bangkok 2018	Saber crew
Universiade
bronze	Bangkok 2007	saber
silver	Bangkok 2007	Saber crew

Korean spelling
Hangeul	김정환
Hanja	金 政 煥
Revised Romanization	Gim Jeonghwan
McCune- Reischauer	Kim Chŏnghwan
See also : Korean name

Kim Jung-hwan (born September 2, 1983 in Seoul ) is a South Korean saber fencer , Olympic champion and world champion.

successes

Kim Jung-hwan started fencing in 1996 and made his international debut in 2005 at the World Cup in Seoul. At this tournament he was immediately tested positive in a doping test and then banned for a year. Kim attributed the positive doping result to the use of sleeping pills.

The right-hander achieved countless successes both continentally and internationally. At the Asian Championships he won the title nine times, partly in an individual, but mostly with the team. In his first medal win in 2007 in Nantong , he secured bronze in the individual and silver with the team. Two years later in Doha he was the first Asian champion in singles, with the team he won bronze. In 2010 he became vice-Asian champion with the team in his native Seoul , and the following year he won his first title with the team in his own place. At the 2012 championships in Wakayama , he secured bronze in the individual and silver in the team competition, as he did in 2007. The following year followed in Shanghai silver in the singles and the next title win with the team. In Suwon , he defended his title with the team in 2014, but did not win an individual medal. Both in 2015 in Singapore and in 2016 in Wuxi , Kim was Asian champion in individual and with the team. In 2017 he repeated this success in the team competition in Hong Kong . The following year in Bangkok a silver medal in individual and bronze with the team followed.

In Asian Games , he won in 2010 in Guangzhou silver with the team. In 2014 in Incheon he won the gold medal in the team competition, in the individual he was defeated in the final 2014 he was defeated in the individual final Gu Bon-gil and thus won silver.

At the international level, Kim had already won bronze in singles and silver with the team at the Universiade in 2007 . At the fencing world championships he achieved his first successes with the team: in 2013 he won bronze with her in Budapest , and silver in Kazan the following year . Three years later he became world champion with her for the first time in Leipzig . In 2018 he not only defended the title with the team in Wuxi , but also became world champion in the individual.

At the Olympic Games in London in 2012 Kim won the gold medal with the team, in the individual he finished 19th after an opening defeat against Zhong Man . In his second Olympic participation four years later in Rio de Janeiro he was able to win a medal, this time in an individual. In the semifinals he was defeated by the later Olympic champion Áron Szilágyi with 12:15, before he defeated Mojtaba Abedini with 15: 8 in the battle for bronze . In 2016 he was also the world leader in the saber.

Web links

Commons : Kim Jung-hwan  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Kim Jung-hwan - Rankings and Results in the database of the Fédération Internationale d'Escrime (English / French)
• Kim Jung-Hwan in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Kim Jung-hwan. Fédération Internationale d'Escrime , accessed on November 1, 2018 . 
2. ↑ Liam Morgan: Kim and Navarria crowned first gold medallists at World Fencing Championships. In: insidethegames.biz. July 22, 2018, accessed November 1, 2018 . 
3. ↑ ^{a b} Yoo Jee-ho: Fencer idolizing football star becomes Olympic medalist. In: yonhapnews.co.kr. Yonhap News Agency , August 11, 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. Kim is the family name here, Jung-hwan is the first name.