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Gu Bon-gil

Gu Bon-gil
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Gu at the 2013 World Championships
Personal information
Born (1989-04-27) 27 April 1989 (age 27)
Sport
Sport Fencing
Coached by Lee Hyo-kun
Korean name
Hangul 구본길
Hanja 具本佶
Revised Romanization Gu Bongil
McCune–Reischauer Ku Pon'gil
Achievements and titles
Highest world ranking 1

Gu Bon-gil (Korean pronunciation: [ku.bon.ɡil] or [ku] [pon.ɡil]; born 27 April 1989) is a South Korean fencer. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, he competed as part of the South Korean team in the Men's team sabre, where he won a gold medal. In the individual event he was defeated in the third round.

At the 2011 World Fencing Championships, he won the bronze medal, losing to Aldo Montano in the semifinal. At the 2014 World Fencing Championships he won silver in the individual event, losing to Nikolay Kovalev in the final. He also won silver in the team event, along with Kim Jung-hwan, Won Woo-Young and Oh Eun-seok.

Gu finished the 2013-14 season ranked #1 in the world, claiming Korea's first Fencing World Cup title. In the 2014–15 Fencing World Cup he won gold at the Coupe de Monde in Budapest, the Sabre de Wolodyjowski in Warsaw and the Villa de Madrid in Madrid, before finishing 5th at the 2015 World Fencing Championships in Moscow. He maintained his world #1 rank to the end of the 2014-15 season to claim his second World Cup title.


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