Ku Bon-chan

Ku Bon-chan
Ku Bon-chan at the 2016 Summer Olympics
nation	South Korea
birthday	January 31, 1993
size	181 cm
Weight	84 kg
Career
discipline	Archery
society	Andong National University
status	active
Medal table
Olympic medals 2 × 0 × 0 × Asian Games medals 0 × 0 × 1 × World Cup medals 2 × 0 × 0 ×
last change: October 6, 2016

Ku Bon-chan ( kor. 구본 찬 ; born January 31, 1993 ) is a South Korean archer and Olympic champion .

Career

Ku Bon-chan took part in the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro and won the individual gold medal after beating Jean-Charles Valladont in the final . Together with Kim Woo-jin and Lee Seung-yun , he also won the gold medal in the team competition .

With the team he had already achieved several successes: in 2015 he won the world championship with her in Copenhagen and in 2014 the bronze medal at the Asian Games in Incheon . At the 2015 World Championships, he also won gold in the mixed team with Ki Bo-bae .

He trains at Andong National University in Andong .

Web links

Commons : Ku Bon-chan  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Ku Bon-chan at the World Archery Federation

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ian Ransom: Archery: Cool Ku secures South Korean sweep. In: reuters.com. August 12, 2016. Retrieved October 6, 2016 . 
2. ↑ Reuters : USA make do with silver in men's team archery as South Koreans clinch gold. In: theguardian.com. August 6, 2016, accessed October 6, 2016 . 

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