Gu Bon-gil

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Gu Bon-gil
File:Gu Bon-gil 2015 WCh SMS-EQ t145725.jpg
Gu at the men's team sabre qualification stage of the 2015 World Fencing Championships on 16 July 2014
Personal information
Born (1989-04-27) 27 April 1989 (age 37)
Daegu, South Korea
Height1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight70 kg (154 lb)
Fencing career
SportFencing
CountrySouth Korea
WeaponSabre
Handright-handed
ClubKorea Sports Promotion Foundation[1]
FIE rankingcurrent ranking
Medal record
Men's sabre
Representing File:Flag of South Korea.svg South Korea
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
Olympic Games 3 0 0
Asian Games 6 2 0
World Championships 4 4 2
Asian Championships 14 4 0
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2012 London Team
Gold medal – first place 2020 Tokyo Team
Gold medal – first place 2024 Paris Team
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2017 Leipzig Team
Gold medal – first place 2018 Wuxi Team
Gold medal – first place 2019 Budapest Team
Gold medal – first place 2022 Cairo Team
Silver medal – second place 2014 Kazan Individual
Silver medal – second place 2014 Kazan Team
Silver medal – second place 2017 Leipzig Individual
Silver medal – second place 2023 Milan Team
Bronze medal – third place 2011 Catania Individual
Bronze medal – third place 2013 Budapest Team
Asian Games
Gold medal – first place 2010 Guangzhou Individual
Silver medal – second place 2010 Guangzhou Team
Gold medal – first place 2014 Incheon Individual
Gold medal – first place 2018 Jakarta Individual
Gold medal – first place 2014 Incheon Team
Gold medal – first place 2018 Jakarta Team
Gold medal – first place 2022 Hangzhou Team
Silver medal – second place 2022 Hangzhou Individual
Asian Championships
Gold medal – first place 2010 Seoul Individual
Gold medal – first place 2011 Seoul Team
Gold medal – first place 2012 Wakayama Individual
Gold medal – first place 2013 Shanghai Individual
Gold medal – first place 2013 Shanghai Team
Gold medal – first place 2014 Suwon Individual
Gold medal – first place 2014 Suwon Team
Gold medal – first place 2015 Singapore Team
Gold medal – first place 2016 Wuxi Team
Gold medal – first place 2017 Hong Kong Individual
Gold medal – first place 2017 Hong Kong Team
Gold medal – first place 2019 Chiba Team
Gold medal – first place 2022 Seoul Team
Gold medal – first place 2022 Seoul Individual
Gold medal – first place 2024 Kuwait City Team
Silver medal – second place 2010 Seoul Team sabre
Silver medal – second place 2011 Seoul Individual
Silver medal – second place 2012 Wakayama Team
Silver medal – second place 2015 Singapore Individual
Universiade
Gold medal – first place 2017 Taipei Team
Silver medal – second place 2011 Shenzhen Individual
Bronze medal – third place 2011 Shenzhen Team
Gu Bon-gil
Hangul
구본길
Hanja
具本佶
RRGu Bongil
MRKu Pon'gil
In this Korean name, the family name is Gu.

Gu Bon-gil (Korean: 구본길, Korean pronunciation: [ku.bon.ɡil] or [ku] [pon.ɡil]; born 27 April 1989) is a South Korean right-handed sabre fencer.[2]

Gu is an eight-time team Asian champion, seven-time individual Asian champion, and three-time team world champion.

A three-time Olympian, Gu is a three-time team Olympic champion.

Early life

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A native of Daegu, Gu had played football all through elementary and middle school and went on to Osung High School (ko), which was the alma mater of his 2012 Olympics teammate Oh Eun-seok. The fencing coach at Osung High School had already noticed him in middle school and persuaded him to switch sports.[3] He majored in physical education at Dong-Eui University, then one of the few universities which had a fencing team.[4]

Gu was already selected for the youth national teams as a high school student and participated in the 2006 Cadet (Under 17) World Championships. He won individual gold at the Junior (Under 20) World Championships and Junior Asian Championships in 2008.[5][6]

Career

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Gu was first selected for the senior national team in 2010.[6] He made headlines that year by winning two silver medals in the Grand Prix circuit and individual gold medals at both the Asian Games and Asian Championships. The media dubbed him the "scary rookie" after he narrowly defeated compatriot Oh Eun-seok, then world number 2, in the semi-finals of the Asian Games.[7][6] His gold medal at the Asian Games meant that he was exempted from mandatory military service.[8]

Gu won two individual gold medals at the 2010–11 Fencing World Cup and ended the competition ranked number 3 overall. He was selected to participate in the 2012 Summer Olympics along with Oh, Kim Jung-hwan and Won Woo-young. The Olympics began on a sour note as he, Kim and Won did not make it past the semi-final stage of the individual event.[9] They managed to win a historic gold in the team event, South Korea's first ever Olympic gold medal in the men's team sabre category.[10][11] The quartet continued to dominate in the team events, sweeping gold at both the Asian Championships and Asian Games hosted at home and winning silver at the World Championships. They also successfully defended their team gold medal at the 2015 Asian Fencing Championships.

Oh Eun-seok and Won Woo-young both retired and were replaced by youngsters Oh Sang-uk and Kim Jun-ho. There was no men's team sabre event at 2016 Summer Olympics due to the now-abolished rotation policy. Gu and Kim Jung-hwan both qualified for the individual event. However, he was narrowly defeated by Mojtaba Abedini, whom Kim went on to defeat in the bronze medal bout.[12] The following year, the team won gold in the men's team sabre event at the 2017 World Fencing Championships, the country's first team gold at the worlds since 2005, and swept team gold at the 2018 World Championships and Asian Games.[13] Gu himself won individual silver in the 2017 worlds and successfully defended his Asian Games gold the following year.[14][8]

Kim Jung-hwan announced his retirement after the 2018 Asian Games and was replaced by Ha Han-sol. The team won gold at the 2019 World Fencing Championships, Gu's third consecutive team gold at the worlds.[15] Kim came back out of retirement and reunited with the same team from the 2018 Asian Games and Asian Championships. They qualified for the 2020 Summer Olympics, which had been postponed for a year. Despite the disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and changes to coaching staff, they won team gold, making Gu and Kim the first South Korean fencers (among all fencing disciplines, male or female) to win back-to-back team gold medals at the Olympics.[a][16][17]

The 2021–22 World Cup season began uneventfully for Gu as he was not able to participate in the Orléans Grand Prix held in October, having tested positive for COVID-19 the day before the competition.[18][19] He returned to the team which won gold at both the Men's Team World Cup in January and the World Championships to retain their #1 ranking in the team category. Gu himself finished that season on a high by winning gold at the Asian Championships and medalling for the first time at a Grand Prix event since 2018, only losing to Áron Szilágyi in the Padua Grand Prix final by a single point.[20][21]

Medal record

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Olympic Games

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Year Location Event Position
2012 United Kingdom London, United Kingdom Team Men's Sabre 1st[22]
2021 Japan Tokyo, Japan Team Men's Sabre 1st[23]
2024 France Paris, France Team Men's Sabre 1st

World Championship

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Year Location Event Position
2011 Italy Catania, Italy Individual Men's Sabre 3rd[24]
2013 Hungary Budapest, Hungary Team Men's Sabre 3rd[25]
2014 Russia Kazan, Russia Individual Men's Sabre 2nd[26]
2014 Russia Kazan, Russia Team Men's Sabre 2nd[27]
2017 Germany Leipzig, Germany Individual Men's Sabre 2nd[28]
2017 GermanyLua error: not enough memory. Leipzig, Germany Team Men's Sabre 1st[29]
2018 ChinaLua error: not enough memory. Wuxi, China Team Men's Sabre 1st[30]
2019 HungaryLua error: Internal error: The interpreter exited with status 1. Budapest, Hungary Team Men's Sabre 1st[31]
2022 EgyptLua error: Internal error: The interpreter exited with status 1. Cairo, Egypt Team Men's Sabre 1st[32]

Asian Championship

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Year Location Event Position
2010 South KoreaLua error: Internal error: The interpreter exited with status 1. Seoul, South Korea Individual Men's Sabre 1st[33]
2010 South KoreaLua error: Internal error: The interpreter exited with status 1. Seoul, South Korea Team Men's Sabre 2nd[34]
2011 South KoreaLua error: Internal error: The interpreter exited with status 1. Seoul, South Korea Individual Men's Sabre 2nd[35]
2011 South KoreaLua error: Internal error: The interpreter exited with status 1. Seoul, South Korea Team Men's Sabre 1st[36]
2012 JapanLua error: Internal error: The interpreter exited with status 1. Wakayama, Japan Individual Men's Sabre 1st[37]
2013 ChinaLua error: Internal error: The interpreter exited with status 1. Shanghai, China Individual Men's Sabre 1st[38]
2013 ChinaLua error: Internal error: The interpreter exited with status 1. Shanghai, China Team Men's Sabre 1st[39]
2014 South KoreaLua error: Internal error: The interpreter exited with status 1. Suwon, South Korea Individual Men's Sabre 1st[40]
2014 South KoreaLua error: Internal error: The interpreter exited with status 1. Suwon, South Korea Team Men's Sabre 1st[41]
2015 SingaporeLua error: Internal error: The interpreter exited with status 1. Singapore Individual Men's Sabre 2nd[42]
2015 SingaporeLua error: Internal error: The interpreter exited with status 1. Singapore Team Men's Sabre 1st[43]
2016 ChinaLua error: Internal error: The interpreter exited with status 1. Wuxi, China Team Men's Sabre 1st[44]
2017 Hong KongLua error: Internal error: The interpreter exited with status 1. Hong Kong, China Individual Men's Sabre 1st[45]
2017 Hong KongLua error: Internal error: The interpreter exited with status 1. Hong Kong, China Team Men's Sabre 1st[46]
2018 ThailandLua error: Internal error: The interpreter exited with status 1. Bangkok, Thailand Individual Men's Sabre 1st[47]
2018 ThailandLua error: Internal error: The interpreter exited with status 1. Bangkok, Thailand Team Men's Sabre 3rd[48]
2019 JapanLua error: Internal error: The interpreter exited with status 1. Tokyo, Japan Team Men's Sabre 1st[49]
2022 South KoreaLua error: Internal error: The interpreter exited with status 1. Seoul, South Korea Individual Men's Sabre 1st[50]
2022 South KoreaLua error: Internal error: The interpreter exited with status 1. Seoul, South Korea Team Men's Sabre 1st[51]

Grand Prix

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Date Location Event Position
2010-02-05 HungaryLua error: Internal error: The interpreter exited with status 1. Budapest, Hungary Individual Men's Sabre 2nd[52]
2010-03-21 TunisiaLua error: Internal error: The interpreter exited with status 1. Tunis, Tunisia Individual Men's Sabre 2nd[53]
2011-03-05 HungaryLua error: Internal error: The interpreter exited with status 1. Budapest, Hungary Individual Men's Sabre 3rd[54]
2012-02-04 BulgariaLua error: Internal error: The interpreter exited with status 1. Plovdiv, Bulgaria Individual Men's Sabre 2nd[55]
2013-05-18 PolandLua error: Internal error: The interpreter exited with status 1. Warsaw, Poland Individual Men's Sabre 3rd[56]
2017-06-02 RussiaLua error: Internal error: The interpreter exited with status 1. Moscow, Russia Individual Men's Sabre 2nd[57]
2017-12-15 MexicoLua error: Internal error: The interpreter exited with status 1. Cancún, Mexico Individual Men's Sabre 3rd[58]
2018-05-11 RussiaLua error: Internal error: The interpreter exited with status 1. Moscow, Russia Individual Men's Sabre 3rd[59]
2022-05-20 ItalyLua error: Internal error: The interpreter exited with status 1. Padua, Italy Individual Men's Sabre 2nd[60]

World Cup

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Date Location Event Position
2010-05-22 SpainLua error: Internal error: The interpreter exited with status 1. Madrid, Spain Individual Men's Sabre 2nd[61]
2011-02-18 ItalyLua error: Internal error: The interpreter exited with status 1. Padua, Italy Individual Men's Sabre 1st[62]
2011-03-18 RussiaLua error: Internal error: The interpreter exited with status 1. Moscow, Russia Individual Men's Sabre 1st[63]
2011-06-24 United StatesLua error: Internal error: The interpreter exited with status 1. New York City, New York Individual Men's Sabre 3rd[64]
2012-02-17 ItalyLua error: Internal error: The interpreter exited with status 1. Padua, Italy Individual Men's Sabre 3rd[65]
2013-03-22 RussiaLua error: Internal error: The interpreter exited with status 1. Moscow, Russia Individual Men's Sabre 3rd[66]
2013-04-26 GreeceLua error: Internal error: The interpreter exited with status 1. Athens, Greece Individual Men's Sabre 3rd[67]
2014-02-14 ItalyLua error: Internal error: The interpreter exited with status 1. Padua, Italy Individual Men's Sabre 2nd[68]
2014-11-21 HungaryLua error: Internal error: The interpreter exited with status 1. Budapest, Hungary Individual Men's Sabre 1st[69]
2015-02-20 PolandLua error: Internal error: The interpreter exited with status 1. Warsaw, Poland Individual Men's Sabre 1st[70]
2015-05-01 SpainLua error: Internal error: The interpreter exited with status 1. Madrid, Spain Individual Men's Sabre 1st[71]
2016-02-19 PolandLua error: Internal error: The interpreter exited with status 1. Warsaw, Poland Individual Men's Sabre 1st[72]
2016-12-02 HungaryLua error: Internal error: The interpreter exited with status 1. Győr, Hungary Individual Men's Sabre 2nd[73]
2017-02-24 PolandLua error: Internal error: The interpreter exited with status 1. Warsaw, Poland Individual Men's Sabre 3rd[74]
2018-02-23 PolandLua error: Internal error: The interpreter exited with status 1. Warsaw, Poland Individual Men's Sabre 1st[75]
2020-02-06 LuxembourgLua error: Internal error: The interpreter exited with status 1. Luxembourg Individual Men's Sabre 2nd[76]
2022-05-08 SpainLua error: Internal error: The interpreter exited with status 1. Madrid, Spain Team Men's Sabre 1st[77]
2023-02-12 PolandLua error: Internal error: The interpreter exited with status 1. Warsaw, Poland Team Men's Sabre 1st[78][79]
2023-03-04 ItalyLua error: Internal error: The interpreter exited with status 1. Padua, Italy Team Men's Sabre 3rd[80][81]

Filmography

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Television shows

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Year Title Role Notes Ref.
2021 Playing Bro Cast Member Season 2 [82][83]
Golvengers [84]

Personal life

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Gu earned his master's degree from Kookmin University.[85]

He married flight attendant Park Eun-ju in 2019.[86] In November 2022, Gu announced his wife's pregnancy through a television program.[87] His wife gave birth to a son on 6 March 2023.[88]

Despite sharing the same family name and bon-gwan (Gu clan of Neungseong), Gu is not an immediate relative of singer and actor Gu Bon-seung or the Koo chaebol family associated with LG Corporation. He and Gu Bon-seung indicated through comments left on one another's official Instagram accounts that they were well aware of the rumors, quipping that it was "an honor" to be mistaken as relatives.[89][90]

Notes

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  1. ^ 2016 Summer Olympics did not hold the men's team sabre following FIE's rotation system for team events.

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