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Paris Olympics Korean Mens Fencing Oh Sang-uk

Paris Olympics Taegeuk Warriors Go, Korean Men's Fencing Oh Sang-uk

Korean men's sabre team event takes the lead in the challenge for a third consecutive championship… This time, they are also 'greedy' about the individual event.

Oh Sang-uk (Daejeon Metropolitan City Hall), who is considered the face of Korean men's fencing, is only 27 years old this year, but has been a member of the national team for nearly 10 years.

He became the 'first high school national representative for Korean sabre' in December 2014, and was quickly recognized as a promising prospect.

He began to make a name for himself in February 2015, his debut in an international competition, when he won a bronze medal at the Padua World Cup in Italy.

He continued to grow and reached his prime in 2019, rising to No. 1 in the world rankings. 바카라사이트 추천

He made his presence felt by winning the Grand Prix twice in 2019 and sweeping the individual gold medal at the World Championships.

Standing at 192 cm tall and with long arms and legs, he has a physique that rivals that of Western athletes, and he is also evaluated as having speed and agility that are not lacking.

With his solid results in competitions, he was considered a strong candidate for the individual gold medal ahead of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

As the men's sabre team also attempted to win the team event for the second consecutive time after the 2012 London Games the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games were not held due to event rotation, there were high expectations that Korea would produce its first 'Olympic double crown' in fencing history.

However, he tasted the bitterness of being eliminated in the quarterfinals in his first ever Olympic individual event.

Even for him, who has a calm and composed personality, the weight of his 'Olympic debut' was different.

After losing to Sandro Bajadze (Georgia) in the quarterfinals, Oh Sang-uk said, "I was confused a lot in the middle, and I regret getting excited because there were some regrettable parts."

He was affected by the novel coronavirus infection (COVID-19) before the Olympics, and there were also unfortunate variables such as an ankle injury during the game.

He overcame the disappointment and took responsibility for the last point in the team event, leading Korea to the gold medal, but the Olympic individual event remained as 'homework' for him.

In the three years since, Oh Sang-uk has been the 'ace' of the men's sabre team, running towards the 2024 Paris Olympics.

At the Hangzhou Asian Games last year, he won the individual gold medal by blocking his senior teammate Gu Bon-gil (35, Korea Sports Promotion Foundation)'s attempt to win four consecutive titles in the final, and in the team event, he won a gold medal to become a true top player.

He had been out for a while due to a wrist injury this year, and after returning, he failed to win any individual events in international competitions, faltering.

However, he won both the individual and team events at the Asian Championships held last week, and is now back on track for the Olympics.

In May, being eliminated in the round of 16 in the individual event at the World Cup in Madrid, Spain, and failing to win any awards in the team event was a particularly big stimulus for Oh Sang-uk.

After the Asian Championships, Oh Sang-uk said, "I focused on training using the poor performance at the Madrid World Cup as a stepping stone and it led to good results," and "I came back with a lot of confidence."

If he, who has won individual gold medals at the World Championships, Asian Championships, and Asian Games, wins the individual event at this Olympics, he will achieve a 'grand slam' in the individual event at a major international competition.

This will also be a 'new history' for Korean men's sabre.

Men's sabre is the signature event of Korean fencing, which is trying to win three consecutive Olympic team events, but has yet to produce a 'finalist' in the individual event.

The bronze medal won by Kim Jung-hwan at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro and Tokyo Olympics is the best individual event result so far.

This year, when Oh Sang-uk, who has matured with his experience in Tokyo, will once again take on the challenge, it is the right time to break the 'bronze medal' wall.

In the team event, in addition to the weight of being the 'last runner', Oh Sang-uk also has the responsibility of being a 'big brother'.

Until the Hangzhou Asian Games, Oh Sang-uk was the 'youngest ace' of the men's sabre team, but after that, a generational change began, and this time, Park Sang-won (Daejeon Metropolitan City Hall), born in 2000, and Do Kyung-dong (Army Athletic Corps), born in 1999, joined Oh Sang-wook and Gu Bon-gil.

Oh Sang-uk's role of holding the center became more important.

by casinositewiki on 2024-10-16 10:11:34