Men’s Fencing Sabre Team, Asia’s First Record. Oh Sang-wook, Wins 2 Gold Medals Following Individual Event
The Korean men’s sabre fencing team won the team event at the Paris Olympics on the 1st, achieving their third consecutive victory in the competition. They are the first Asian country to win three consecutive Olympic fencing team events. The photo shows Park Sang-won, Koo Bon-gil, Oh Sang-wook, and Do Kyung-dong (from left) in the team event final against Hungary.
The Korean national men’s sabre fencing team has achieved a third consecutive Olympic gold medal in France, the home of fencing.
The national men’s sabre fencing team, consisting of Koo Bon-gil (35), Oh Sang-wook (28), Do Kyung-dong (25), and Park Sang-won (24), defeated Hungary 45-41 in the team event final at the Paris Olympics held at the Grand Palais in Paris, France on the 1st, and won the competition. This is their third consecutive Olympic victory, following the 2012 London and 2021 Tokyo Games. In the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics, the sabre team event was not held due to the principle of rotation of fencing events. Korea defeated France, the home country, 45-39 in the semifinals of this competition, backed by the one-sided cheers of their home fans, and advanced to the final. The national men’s sabre team earned the nickname “Avengers” (Avengers + fencing) after winning two consecutive championships at the Tokyo Games three years ago. With Do Kyung-dong and Park Sang-won joining the team instead of Kim Jung-hwan (41) and Kim Jun-ho (30), who were members of the two-time champions, there has been a generational change and they are now called the ‘New Appangers’.
It is the first time that an Asian country has won three consecutive Olympic fencing team events. Even when expanded to the entire world, it is the fifth country to win three consecutive Olympic fencing team events, following Russia, Italy, France, and Hungary. Fencing has been a sport since the first Athens Olympics in 1896, and the team event was first introduced in the third St. Louis Games in 1904, making it an ‘Olympic Traditional Sport’ that celebrates its 120th anniversary this year.
The gold medal won by the men’s sabre team on this day is Korea’s 12th medal in this competition and its 300th medal in the Summer Olympics. Korea has won a total of 287 medals (96 gold, 91 silver, 100 bronze) up to the previous Olympics, the Tokyo Games. In addition, when the doping of a Russian athlete who came in third in weightlifting at the 2012 London Games was revealed, Jeon Sang-gyun (43), who came in fourth at the time, was confirmed to have inherited the bronze medal in April. Jeon Sang-gyun will receive his bronze medal in Paris on the 9th.
Oh Sang-wook, who won the gold medal in the sabre individual event four days ago, became the first Korean athlete to win two gold medals in this competition. Oh Sang-wook is also the first Korean fencing athlete to win two Olympic gold medals. Oh Sang-wook, who was also a member of the team event that won the gold medal in the Tokyo Games three years ago, now has three Olympic gold medals. The most gold medals won by a Korean athlete at the Olympics are 4, held by Kim Soo-nyung (archery) and Jin Jong-oh (shooting). Oh Sang-wook said, “I will challenge for a 4-peat in the team event at the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics.” 카지노사이트