Won Woo-young

This is a Korean name; the family name is Won.
Won Woo-young
Personal information
Born (1982-02-03) 3 February 1982
Sport
Country South Korea South Korea
Sport Fencing
Korean name
Hangul 원우녕
Hanja 元禹寧
Revised Romanization Won Unyeong
McCune–Reischauer Wŏn Unyŏng
Medal record
Olympic Games
2012 London Team sabre
World Championships
2010 Paris Individual
2014 Kazan Team sabre
2006 Turin Individual
Asian Championships
2011 Seoul Individual
2011 Seoul Team sabre

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

  1. ↑ "Won Wu-yeong Olympic Results". sports-reference.com. Retrieved 2013-08-07.


This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 3/10/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.