GWAK Donghan

Olympic Games

Year	Location	-90 kg
2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	3

World Championships

Year	Location	-90 kg	Team X
2019	Tokyo, JPN	9	7
2018	Baku, AZE	17	3
2017	Budapest, HUN	3	3
2015	Astana, KAZ	1	2
2013	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	9	-

Asian Games

Year	Location	-90 kg	Team X
2018	Indonesia	1	3

Asia-Oceania Championships

Year	Location	-90 kg	Team X
2021	Bishkek, KGZ	3	1
2019	Abu Dhabi, UAE	5	-

Asian Championships

Year	Location	-90 kg
2017	Hong Kong, CHN	5

World Masters

Year	Location	-90 kg
2021	Doha, QAT	17
2019	Qingdao, CHN	17
2018	Guangzhou, CHN	9
2017	St. Petersburg, RUS	2

Grand Slam - Tally of rank achieved per season and event since 2017

Year	Event	1st	2nd	3rd	5th	7th	9th	16th	17th	30th-33rd
2021	-90 kg	-	-	-	-	1x	-	-	-	-
2020	-90 kg	-	-	-	-	-	1x	-	-	-
2019	-90 kg	1x	1x	1x	-	-	1x	-	-	-
2018	-90 kg	-	-	-	1x	-	-	-	-	-
2017	-90 kg	-	-	1x	-	-	-	-	-	-

Grand Prix - Tally of rank achieved per season and event since 2017

Year	Event	1st	2nd	3rd	5th	7th	8th	9th	10th	15th-33rd
2020	-90 kg	1x	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2018	-90 kg	1x	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

World Cup - Tally of rank achieved per season and event since 2017

Year	Event	1st	2nd	3rd	4rd	5th	7th	8th	9th	10th	15th-33rd
2017	-90 kg	-	-	1x	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Grand Slam, Grand Prix & World Cup - Ten best performances since 2017

Rank	Year	Event	Competition	Location
1	2020	-90 kg	Grand Prix	Tel Aviv, ISR
1	2019	-90 kg	Grand Slam	Paris, FRA
1	2018	-90 kg	Grand Prix	Hohhot, CHN
2	2019	-90 kg	Grand Slam	Abu Dhabi, UAE
3	2019	-90 kg	Grand Slam	Osaka, JPN
3	2017	-90 kg	World Cup	Rome, ITA
3	2017	-90 kg	Grand Slam	Paris, FRA
5	2018	-90 kg	Grand Slam	Paris, FRA
7	2021	-90 kg	Grand Slam	Tashkent, UZB
9	2020	-90 kg	Grand Slam	Dusseldorf, GER
9	2019	-90 kg	Grand Slam	Dusseldorf, GER

Reading, weight training. (street.co.kr, 10 Sep 2019; hani.co.kr, 10 Apr 2019)

Athlete

Yong In University, Republic of Korea

Korean

High 1 Sports Team [Republic of Korea]

Kim Geon-Woo [club], KOR; Keum Ho-Yeon [national], KOR

He got involved in judo in grade seven at Dongji Middle School in Pohang, Republic of Korea. (hani.co.kr, 10 Apr 2019; kyongbuk.co.kr, 11 Aug 2016)

The coach at his middle school encouraged him to take up the sport. He was also inspired by Korean judoka Lee Won-Hee after watching him winning a gold medal at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens on television. (news.chosun.com, 05 Sep 2018; kyongbuk.co.kr, 11 Aug 2016)

To win gold at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (sporbiz.co.kr, 29 Jan 2020)

His techniques sessions last for two hours a day, which are followed by between three and four hours of weight training. (street.co.kr, 10 Sep 2019)

Winning bronze in the 90kg category at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. (Subusu Sports YouTube channel, 12 Jul 2019)

His coach from middle school Lee Mu-Hee, and his mother. (hani.co.kr, 10 Apr 2019; kyongbuk.co.kr, 11 Aug 2016)

"The only devils in the world are those running around in our own hearts, and that is where all our battles should be fought." [Mahatma Gandhi] (hani.co.kr, 10 Apr 2019)

In 2015 he was named Best Athlete of the Year by the Korea Judo Association. (kwnews.co.kr, 26 Jan 2016)