Koo Ji-won

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Koo Ji-won

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Born

20 July 1994 (age 31)

Seoul, South Korea

Height

1.84 m (6 ft 0 in)

Weight

122 kg (269 lb; 19 st 3 lb)

Rugby union career

Senior career
Position	Prop
Current team	Kobelco Steelers
Years	Team	Apps	(Points)
2017–2019	Sunwolves	13	(0)
2018–2021	Honda Heat	17	(15)
2022–	Kobelco Steelers	36	(0)
Correct as of 28 August 2023
International career
Years	Team	Apps	(Points)
2014	Japan U20	4	(0)
2017–	Japan	29	(0)
2023	Japan XV	2	(0)
Correct as of 28 August 2023

Koo Ji-won (具智元, Gu Chigan; born 20 July 1994) is a Korean-Japanese professional rugby union player who plays as a prop for Japan Rugby League One club Kobelco Kobe Steelers. Born in South Korea, he represents Japan at international level after qualifying on residency grounds.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]

He also changed hos nationality to Japan after the 2019 World Cup.

International career

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After only two Super Rugby appearances for the Sunwolves, which included one start, Koo received his first call-up to his adopted country, Japan's senior squad ahead of the 2017 end-of-year rugby union internationals.^[5]

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v t e Kobelco Kobe Steelers – current squad
Forwards	Tiennan Costley Gerard Cowley-Tuioti Ash Dixon Sosefo Fakatava Hayato Fukunishi Solomone Funaki Neil Hansen Hikaru Hashimoto Takara Imamura Koo Ji-won Kauvaka Kaivelata Takuya Kitade Naohiro Kotaki Go Maeda Sho Maeda Kenta Matsuoka Keita Miyauchi Hikaru Moriwaki Takuma Motohashi Isileli Nakajima Willie Potgieter Waisake Raratubua Brodie Retallick Ardie Savea Sione Sime Mau Kavaia Tagivetaua Shigure Takao Takyuki Watanabe Hiroshi Yamashita
Backs	Inoke Burua Talilotu Fakatulolo Ryota Funabiki Bryn Gatland Junta Hamano Mac Harris Atsushi Hiwasa Tali Ioasa Shinsuke Iseki Daisuke Ito Itsuki Kamimura Timothy Lafaele Anton Lienert-Brown Michael Little Kanta Matsunaga Ataata Moeakiola Daiki Nakajima Lee Seung-sin Soma Sugimoto Kenta Tokuda Hayata Tsujino Kazuma Ueda
Coach	Dave Rennie

v t e Japan squad – 2019 Rugby World Cup
Forwards	Ai Valu Helu Himeno Horie Inagaki Kitade Kizu Koo Labuschagné Leitch (c) Mafi Moore Nakajima Sakate Thompson Tokunaga Tui Van der Walt
Backs	Fukuoka Lafaele Lemeki Matsuda Matsushima Moeakiola Nagare Nakamura Shigeno Tamura Tanaka Tupou Yamanaka
Head coach: Joseph

v t e Japan squad – 2023 Rugby World Cup
Forwards	Ai Valu Cornelsen Dearns Fakatava Fukui Gunter Halasili Himeno (c) Horie Horikoshi Inagaki Kakinaga Koo Ji-won Labuschagné Leitch Millar Sakate Saumaki Shimokawa
Backs	Fifita Fukuda Lee Seung-sin Lemeki Masirewa Matsuda Matsushima Nagare Naikabula Nakamura Ogura Osada Riley Saitō Yamanaka (replaced Masirewa)
Head coach: Joseph

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