Oh Sang-uk

In this Korean name, the family name is Oh.
Oh Sang-uk
Personal information
Born (1996-09-30) 30 September 1996 (age 28)
Daejeon, South Korea
Height1.92 m (6 ft 4 in)
Sport
CountrySouth Korea
WeaponSabre
Handright-handed
ClubDaejeon City
Head coachKim Hyung-Yeol
FIE rankingcurrent ranking
Medal record
Men's sabre
Representing  South Korea
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
Olympic Games 3 0 0
World Championships 5 1 0
Asian Championships 6 0 1
Total 14 1 1
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2020 Tokyo Team
Gold medal – first place 2024 Paris Individual
Gold medal – first place 2024 Paris Team
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2017 Leipzig Team
Gold medal – first place 2018 Wuxi Team
Gold medal – first place 2019 Budapest Individual
Gold medal – first place 2019 Budapest Team
Gold medal – first place 2022 Cairo Team
Silver medal – second place 2023 Milan Team
Asian Games
Gold medal – first place 2018 Jakarta Team
Silver medal – second place 2018 Jakarta Individual
Gold medal – first place 2022 Hangzhou Team
Gold medal – first place 2022 Hangzhou Individual
Asian Championships
Gold medal – first place 2016 Wuxi Team
Gold medal – first place 2017 Hong Kong Team
Gold medal – first place 2019 Chiba Individual
Gold medal – first place 2019 Chiba Team
Gold medal – first place 2024 Kuwait City Individual
Gold medal – first place 2024 Kuwait City Team
Bronze medal – third place 2018 Bangkok Team
Universiade
Gold medal – first place 2017 Taipei Team
Gold medal – first place 2019 Naples Individual
Gold medal – first place 2019 Naples Team
Oh Sang-uk
Hangul
오상욱
Hanja
吳尙旭
Revised RomanizationO Sanguk
McCune–ReischauerO Sanguk

Oh Sang-uk (Korean: 오상욱; born 30 September 1996) is a South Korean right-handed sabre fencer.[1]

Oh is a four-time team Asian champion, 2019 individual Asian champion, three-time team world champion, and 2019 individual world champion.

A two-time Olympian, Oh is a two-time team Olympic champion in 2020 and 2024 and 2024 individual Olympic champion.

Early life

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Oh Sang-Uk followed his older brother into fencing and joined his middle school's fencing team.[2][3] A native of Daejeon, he attended Songchon High School [ko], known as a high school fencing powerhouse in the region, and began representing the national team in the youth categories. During his senior year, he won gold in the individual sabre event at the national high school championships and his high school team won in the team event.[4]

Career

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Oh had been a stand-out in the junior and cadet categories and quickly drew attention for defeating then-ranked world number 1 and 2012 Olympic team gold medalist Gu Bon-gil in the Round of 16 of the 2015 National Championships.[2] He was earmarked as a successor to Kim Jung-hwan, whom he idolized in high school and who was speculated to be retiring after the 2016 Olympics, due to their similar aggressive style of play and agility.[5] While he did not make it to the final, he was ranked high enough to qualify for the senior national team, a rarity for a teenager as fencers were generally selected for the national team while in college. At that time, the men's sabre team went through a generational change with the retirements of 2012 Olympic team gold medalists Oh Eun-seok and Won Woo-young. The nineteen-year-old was added into the team with Kim Jun-ho, joining veterans Kim Jung-hwan and Gu Bon-gil for the 2016 Asian Championships. He won his first ever gold medal in a major international tournament when they won the team gold.

Due the now-abolished rotation system, there was no men's team sabre event at the 2016 Summer Olympics. Oh did not rank high enough to qualify for the individual event. He won back-to-back gold medals with the same team at the World Championships and Asian Championships, in 2017 and 2018.[6] In the 2018 Asian Games, he reached the final of the individual event and was defeated by Gu, taking silver. However, his gold medal in the team event meant that he was exempted from mandatory military service.[7] Kim Jung-hwan retired from the national team after the Asian Games and was replaced by Ha Han-sol.

Oh won four gold medals in 2019, winning in both the team and individual events at the World Championships and Asian Championships. Kim Jung-hwan came out of retirement and the gold medal-winning team from the 2017 and 2018 Worlds was reunited again and qualified for the 2020 Summer Olympics, which was postponed for a year. He was nearly unable to participate as he contracted COVID-19 several months prior to the Olympics and then sustained an ankle injury during pre-competition training.[8][9]

Oh went into the Olympics ranked world number 1, thus earning a spot in the individual event. However, he lost to Sandro Bazadze in the quarter-finals.[3] He won his first Olympic medal when they won gold in the team event.[10] In the team semi-finals, he scored the last point in a narrow 45–42 win over Germany, sending the South Koreans to the final for a second consecutive time.[11] During the final against Italy, with the score at 40–21 to South Korea, Oh nearly conceded their lead but managed to score the final five points to win 45–26, the exact same score in the final nine years prior.[8]

Medal record

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Olympic Games

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Year Location Event Position
2021 Japan Tokyo, Japan Team Men's Sabre 1st[12]
2024 France Paris, France Individual Men's Sabre 1st[13]
Team Men's Sabre 1st

World Championships

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Year Location Event Position
2017 Germany Leipzig, Germany Team Men's Sabre 1st[14]
2018 China Wuxi, China Team Men's Sabre 1st[15]
2019 Hungary Budapest, Hungary Individual Men's Sabre 1st[16]
2019 Hungary Budapest, Hungary Team Men's Sabre 1st[17]

Asian Championship

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Year Location Event Position
2016 China Wuxi, China Team Men's Sabre 1st[18]
2017 Hong Kong Hong Kong, China Team Men's Sabre 1st[19]
2018 Thailand Bangkok, Thailand Team Men's Sabre 3rd[20]
2019 Japan Tokyo, Japan Individual Men's Sabre 1st[21]
2019 Japan Tokyo, Japan Team Men's Sabre 1st[22]
2022 South Korea Seoul, South Korea Individual Men's Sabre 3rd[23]
2022 South Korea Seoul, South Korea Team Men's Sabre 1st[24]

Grand Prix

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Date Location Event Position
2017-12-15 Mexico Cancún, Mexico Individual Men's Sabre 1st[25]
2018-05-11 Russia Moscow, Russia Individual Men's Sabre 1st[26]
2019-02-22 Egypt Cairo, Egypt Individual Men's Sabre 1st[27]
2019-04-26 South Korea Seoul, South Korea Individual Men's Sabre 1st[28]
2021-11-11 France Orleans, France Individual Men's Sabre 3rd[29]
2023-04-29 South Korea Seoul, South Korea Individual Men's Sabre 1st[30]

World Cup

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See also: Fencing World Cup
Date Location Event Position
2015-01-30 Italy Padua, Italy Individual Men's Sabre 3rd[31]
2016-12-02 Hungary Győr, Hungary Individual Men's Sabre 1st[32]
2017-02-03 Italy Padua, Italy Individual Men's Sabre 3rd[33]
2017-12-01 Hungary Győr, Hungary Individual Men's Sabre 1st[34]
2018-05-18 Spain Madrid, Spain Individual Men's Sabre 3rd[35]
2018-11-16 Algeria Algier, Algeria Individual Men's Sabre 3rd[36]
2019-02-01 Poland Warsaw, Poland Individual Men's Sabre 3rd[37]
2019-03-22 Hungary Budapest, Hungary Individual Men's Sabre 2nd[38]
2019-05-10 Spain Madrid, Spain Individual Men's Sabre 3rd[39]
2020-02-21 Poland Warsaw, Poland Individual Men's Sabre 3rd[40]
2020-03-06 Luxembourg Luxembourg Individual Men's Sabre 3rd[41]
2020-03-08 Team Men's Sabre 1st[42]
2021-03-11 Hungary Budapest, Hungary Individual Men's Sabre 1st[43]
2022-03-18 Hungary Budapest, Hungary Individual Men's Sabre 3rd[44]
2022-05-06 Spain Madrid, Spain Individual Men's Sabre 1st[45]
2022-05-08 Team Men's Sabre 1st[46]
2022-07-15 Egypt Cairo, Egypt Team Men's Sabre 1st[47]

Performance timeline

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National team

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Team events 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023
Olympic Games NH G NH
World Championships A QF G G G NH G S
Asian Games NH G NH G
Asian Championships A G G B G NH G G
Summer Universiade A NH G NH G NH
Team Events 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023
World Cup
 Algeria NH A W NH W
 Egypt NH W NH
 Georgia QF NH W
 Hungary QF F W NH W NH SF QF W
 Italy A SF W W W NH A
 Luxembourg NH W NH
 Poland F QF SF W QF F NH A
 Senegal NH SF NH
 Spain QF QF A W SF NH W R16

Individual

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Team events 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023
Olympic Games NH A NH QF NH
World Championships A NH QF R32 G NH QF
Asian Games NH S NH G
Asian Championships A QF QF R32 G NH B
Summer Universiade A NH R32 NH G NH
Team Events 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023
Grand Prix
 Canada NH QF NH
 Egypt NH W NH
 France NH SF A
 Italy NH R16
 Mexico NH R64 W NH
 Russia R32 R32 QF W R32 NH
 South Korea R64 R32 QF R16 W NH W
 Tunisia NH A
 United States R64 NH
World Cup
 Algeria NH A SF NH R64
 Egypt NH R32 NH
 Georgia R16 NH QF
 Hungary R16 W W NH F NH W SF R64
 Italy SF QF SF QF R16 NH A
 Luxembourg NH SF NH
 Poland R64 R16 R32 R16 SF SF NH A
 Senegal NH R16 NH
 Spain R64 QF A SF SF NH W R16

Personal life

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Oh attended Daejeon University, known for its fencing team, on a scholarship and graduated in 2019.[48][49]

Filmography

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Television shows

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Year Title Role Notes Ref.
2021 Racket Boys Club members Episode 1–12 [50]

References

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  48. ^ "대전대 펜싱부 도선기 감독 "제자 오상욱, 자랑스럽고 고마워"". Kukmin Ilbo (in Korean). 29 July 2021.
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  50. ^ Jo Ji-young (16 September 2021). "[공식] 오상욱X세븐틴 승관·정동원, tvN 新예능 '라켓보이즈' 출연 확정" [[Official] Sangwook Oh X Seungkwan Jeong and Dongwon Jung of Seventeen confirmed to appear in tvN's new entertainment show 'Racquet Boys]. Sports Chosun (in Korean). Retrieved 16 September 2021 – via Naver.
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