Won Woo-young


Won Woo-young 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 – 9 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. In the men's individual event he lost in the last 16 to Nikolay Kovalev, the eventual bronze medallist.

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