Won Woo-young
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| Born | 3 February 1982 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 South Korea | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Fencing | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Hangul | 원우녕 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Hanja | 元禹寧 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Revised Romanization | Won Unyeong | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| McCune–Reischauer | Wŏn Unyŏng | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Won Woo-young (Hangul: 원우영; born 3 February 1982) is a South Korean sabre fencer.
He won the bronze medal at the sabre 2006 World Fencing Championships, after losing 15-10 to Zsolt Nemcsik in the semi-final. At the sabre 2010 World Fencing Championships, he won the gold medal, beating Nicolas Limbach 15 - 11 in the final.
He competed as part of the South Korean team at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the men's team sabre, where he won a gold medal.[1] In the men's individual event he lost in the last 16 to Nikolay Kovalev, the eventual bronze medallist.
Achievements
2010 World Fencing Championships, sabre
2006 World Fencing Championships, sabre
2012 Summer Olympics, Team sabre
References
- ↑ "Won Wu-yeong Olympic Results". sports-reference.com. Retrieved 2013-08-07.
External links
- Won Woo-young at FIE
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