Ku Bon-chan
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Ku Bon-chan (Korean pronunciation: [ku.bon.tɕʰan] or [ku] [pon.tɕʰan]; born 31 January 1993) is a South Korean recurve archer. He won an individual and a team gold medal at the 2016 Olympics and two team gold medals at the 2015 World Championships.
Career
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He made his international debut at the 2014 Archery World Cup after having participated in numerous Asian competitions prior.[2] Ku competed in the individual recurve event, team recurve event, and recurve mixed team event at the 2015 World Archery Championships in Copenhagen, Denmark, where he took home gold medals in the team recurve event and recurve mixed team event.[5]
Ku represented South Korea in the men's team archery event and men's individual archery event at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Ku and the South Korean team won the gold medal in the team event. Ku shot six consecutive perfect tens across three sets in the gold medal match against the United States.[6] South Korea's victory against the United States marked the first time a South Korean archery team had beaten an archery team from the United States at the Olympics. In the men's individual archery event, Ku defeated Frenchman Jean-Charles Valladont in the final to win his second Olympic gold medal.[7]
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External links
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- Ku Bonchan at World ArcheryLua error in Module:EditAtWikidata at line 29: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 29: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
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- 1993 births
- Living people
- South Korean male archers
- Asian Games bronze medalists in archery
- Asian Games archers for South Korea
- Archers at the 2014 Asian Games
- World Archery Championships medalists
- Olympic archers for South Korea
- Archers at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Olympic gold medalists for South Korea
- Olympic medalists in archery
- Asian Games bronze medalists for South Korea
- Medalists at the 2014 Asian Games
- Summer World University Games medalists in archery
- FISU World University Games gold medalists for South Korea
- FISU World University Games silver medalists for South Korea
- South Korean Buddhists
- Medalists at the 2015 Summer Universiade
- Sportspeople from Gyeongju
- Neungseong Gu clan
- 21st-century South Korean sportsmen
- South Korean sportspeople stubs
- Asian archery biography stubs
- South Korean Olympic medalist stubs