GU Bongil

Republic of Korea

Date of Birth: 27 Apr 1989

Age: 32

Gender: Male

Place of birth: DAEGU

Birth Country:

Republic of Korea

Place of residence : SEOUL

Residence Country:

Republic of Korea

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Fencing	Men's Sabre Individual	19
	Men's Sabre Team KOR Republic of Korea	1

Schedule

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
	Makuhari Messe Hall B Red Piste	Men's Sabre Individual Table of 32 #46 GER SZABO MSZABO Matyas 15 KOR GU BGU Bongil 8	Finished
	Makuhari Messe Hall B Blue Piste	Men's Sabre Team Quarterfinal 1 #9 KOR Republic of Korea 45 EGY Egypt 39	Finished
	Makuhari Messe Hall B Yellow Piste	Men's Sabre Team Semifinal 1 #15 KOR Republic of Korea 45 GER Germany 42	Finished
	Makuhari Messe B Final Piste	Men's Sabre Team Gold Medal Match #20 KOR Republic of Korea 45 ITA Italy 26	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

Olympic Games

Year	Location	Sabre Individual	Sabre Team
2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	9	-
2012	London, GBR	10	1

World Championships

Year	Location	Sabre Individual	Sabre Team
2019	Budapest, HUN	10	1
2018	Wuxi, CHN	5	1
2017	Leipzig, GER	2	1
2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	-	7
2015	Moscow, RUS	5	8
2014	Kazan, RUS	2	2
2013	Budapest, HUN	9	3
2011	Catania, ITA	3	9
2010	Paris, FRA	18	8
2009	Antalya, TUR	49	13

Asian Games

Year	Location	Sabre Individual	Sabre Team
2018	Indonesia	1	1

Asian Championships

Year	Location	Sabre Individual	Sabre Team
2019	Tokyo, JPN	7	1
2018	Bangkok, THA	1	3
2017	Hong Kong, CHN	1	1

World Cup overview - Three best ranks per season since 2016/2017

Year	Sabre Individual	Sabre Team
2020/2021	1 x 18th	1 x 4th
2019/2020	1 x 2nd, 1 x 9th, 1 x 20th	2 x 1st, 1 x 2nd
2018/2019	1 x 5th, 2 x 9th, 1 x 17th	3 x 1st, 1 x 3rd, 1 x 5th
2017/2018	1 x 1st, 1 x 5th, 1 x 9th	4 x 1st, 1 x 7th
2016/2017	1 x 2nd, 1 x 3rd, 1 x 10th	1 x 1st, 1 x 2nd, 2 x 3rd

Grand Prix overview - Three best ranks per season since 2016/2017

Year	Sabre Individual
2019/2020	1 x 11th
2018/2019	1 x 5th, 1 x 8th, 1 x 17th
2017/2018	2 x 3rd, 1 x 17th
2016/2017	1 x 2nd, 1 x 5th, 1 x 10th

World Cup & Grand Prix - Ten best performances since 2016/2017

Rank	Year	Event	Competition	Location
1	2019/2020	Sabre Team	World Cup	Luxembourg, LUX
1	2019/2020	Sabre Team	World Cup	Cairo, EGY
1	2018/2019	Sabre Team	World Cup	Budapest, HUN
1	2018/2019	Sabre Team	World Cup	Padua, ITA
1	2018/2019	Sabre Team	World Cup	Algiers, ALG
1	2017/2018	Sabre Individual	World Cup	Warsaw, POL
1	2017/2018	Sabre Team	World Cup	Madrid, ESP
1	2017/2018	Sabre Team	World Cup	Warsaw, POL
1	2017/2018	Sabre Team	World Cup	Padua, ITA
1	2017/2018	Sabre Team	World Cup	Gyor, HUN
1	2016/2017	Sabre Team	World Cup	Padua, ITA

Gaming. (Instagram profile, 02 Feb 2020; isplus.live.joins.com, 25 Apr 2019)

Occupation:

Physical Education - Dongeui University, Busan, KOR

Wife Park Eun-Joo

Languages spoken:

Korea Sports Promotion Foundation [Jeonnam, KOR]

Kim Du-Hong [club], KOR; Kim Hyung-Yeol [national], KOR

Right (FIE, 27 Sep 2011)

He began fencing in 2002 in Daegu, Republic of Korea. (donga.com, 04 Jun 2014)

He was playing football with his friends when he was encouraged to take up the sport by a fencing coach at his middle school. He was included in the school's sabre team because it was short of members. (SBS YouTube channel, 29 Aug 2019; post.naver.com, 08 Mar 2018; donga.com, 04 Jun 2014)

To win gold at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (hankookilbo.com, 03 Jan 2020)

"I don't eat food on the day of a competition and avoid water as much as possible because it feels like my body is getting heavier." (hankookilbo.com, 03 Jan 2020)

Philosophy:

"My style is 80% attack and 20% defence." (sports.news.naver.com, 14 May 2019)

In 2020 he was inducted into the International Fencing Federation [FIE] Hall of Fame. (Instagram profile, 24 Sep 2020; usafencing.org, 18 Sep 2020)

In 2019 he was presented with the Cheongryong [Blue Dragon] Medal, the highest Order of Sport Merit in the Republic of Korea. (sports.chosun.com, 15 Oct 2019)

He was flag bearer for the Republic of Korea at the opening ceremony of the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. (news.joins.com, 20 Jul 2016)

General Interest

General
OTHER ACTIVITIES
In 2021 he featured in a Korean television programme titled 'Sporty Brothers'. "I had reached a peak in my sporting career, but realised that the fencing was only temporarily popular in my country when we won medals. Therefore I wanted to promote the sport and myself through this programme." (Echannel YouTube channel, 29 Apr 2021; enter.etoday.co.kr, 23 Apr 2021; Instagram profile, 18 Apr 2021)

FURTHER EDUCATION
In 2014 he began studying at Kookmin University Graduate School of Sports Industry in Seoul, Republic of Korea. (UniK Naver blog, 04 Dec 2018)

Milestones

He was a member of the first Korean men's team to win an Olympic medal in fencing when he joined Jung-Hwan Kim, Eun-Seok Oh and Woo-Young Won to claim gold in team sabre at the 2012 Games in London. (SportsDeskOnline, 10 May 2021)

Social Media

Legend

:: Gold Medal
:: Gold Medal Event
:: Silver Medal Event
:: Bronze Medal Event

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