I did it! Fencing Sabres Beat China and Beat China for 3rd consecutive time...Gu Bon-gil's highest number of ties
The world's strongest South Korean men's fencing sabre team won the gold medal for the third consecutive time in the Asian Games.
The men's sabre team, consisting of Oh Sang-wook (Daejeon Metropolitan City Hall), Koo Bon-gil, Kim Jung-hwan (Korea Sports Promotion Foundation) and Kim Joon-ho (Hwaseong City Hall), won the gold medal in the team final of the 2022 Hangzhou Asian Games held at Hangzhou Electronics University Gymnasium in China on the 28th.
The South Korean men's sabre team challenged for the gold medal for the third consecutive time following the 2014 Incheon and 2018 Jakarta-Palembang Games in the Asian Games team event. China reached the final with good momentum with home advantage, but it was not a match for the Appenzas. In Korea, Oh Sang-wook and Koo Bon-gil clashed in the men's individual sabre event earlier, and Oh Sang-wook won the gold medal and Koo Bon-gil won the silver medal. In the final of the team event, he unilaterally pushed the home team with his overwhelming skills and won.
South Korea defeated Japan 45-26 in the quarterfinals and settled in the final after beating Kazakhstan 45-41 in the semifinals.
With the gold medal in the team event, Koo Bon-gil won his sixth gold medal in the gold medal Asian Games, along with Park Tae-hwan (swimming), Nam Hyun-hee (fencing), Seo Jung-kyun (riding), Yang Chang-hoon (archery), and Ryu Seo-yeon (bowling).
Koo Bon-gil, who won his first Asian Games gold medal by winning the individual event at the 2010 Guangzhou Games, won both individual and team events at the 2014 Incheon Games. At the 2018 Jakarta-Palembang Games, he also won two consecutive individual and team events, increasing his career gold medal at the Asian Games to five.
Earlier, he tried for his sixth gold medal in the individual event, but after winning a silver medal after being blocked by Oh Sang-wook, he completed his sixth victory in the team event.
Oh Sang-wook succeeded in winning two gold medals in the tournament following his first individual gold medal in the Asian Games.
The Korean men's sabre team is building a world-class position, both in name and reality. The national team, which won Korea's first team gold medal in fencing at the 2012 London Olympics, won its second consecutive Olympic title nine years later, beating Egypt, Germany and Italy in succession at the Tokyo Olympics. No men's sabre team event was held at the 2016 Rio Olympics.
He also won the World Championships in 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2022 to build an iron fortress.
In particular, the men's sabre team, which won the Hangzhou Asian Games, sweated as the same members through the Jakarta-Palembang Asian Games and the Tokyo Olympics, and it is analyzed that they have strong individual skills as well as organizational skills.
In the final, South Korea's first player Oh Sang-wook was 4-5 behind Lin Xiao, but Koo Bon-gil quickly won six points in the second round against Sun Chun-feng, turning the tide 10-8. The Chinese home crowd's "jja-yo" cheer rang out in the electronic university gym, but the Appenzas did not budge. In the third round, Kim Joon-ho unilaterally pushed Yan Ying-hui and then widened the gap to 15-9, grabbing the victory in earnest. Kim Joon-ho teased his opponent by reading Yan Ying-hui's number in advance and using it in reverse to score.
After the fourth round, the gap widened to the extent that China could not do anything about it.
Koo Bon-gil dominated Lin Xiao, who edged ahead of Oh Sang-wook in the first round, with overwhelming skills and experience, and then 20-11, almost a double score difference.
Of course, there was a crisis. Kim Joon-ho was chased to 28-22 after losing six consecutive points in the sixth round in Sun Chunfeng. However, Kim Joon-ho won two points here to make it 30-22, and the Appenzas, who took a breather, confirmed their victory in the 7th to 9th rounds, where each member plays one last time.
Koo Bon-gil lost a point to Yan Ying-hui, who recklessly attacked him in the seventh round, but finished 35-28, making the final round of his Hangzhou Asian Games and passing it on to Kim Joon-ho.
Kim Joon-ho finished the eighth round with Lin Xiao 40-30, and the finale was decorated by Oh Sang-wook, an individual gold medalist.
South Korea ended its third consecutive loss with Oh Sang-wook finishing 45-33 after a match with Sun Chun-feng.
South Korean fencing is a great help to the South Korean team by properly practicing "one gold per day" to win a gold medal one day at this tournament. Starting with Choi In-jeong's gold medal in the women's epee individual event on the 24th, Oh Sang-wook beat Koo Bon-gil in the men's sabre individual event on the 25th.
On the 26th, Yoon Ji-soo, the daughter of Lotte Giants legend pitcher Yoon Hak-gil, won her first gold medal in the individual women's sabre event.
On the 27th, the men's foil team and the women's epee team defeated China and Hong Kong, respectively, and swept two gold medals on the first day of the team event.
And the men's sabre team responded to the people's support with three consecutive Asian Games losses on the 28th. This is not the end. The women's foil team will play the final of the team event against China from 7:45 p.m. on the 28th. sportstototop.com