Ku Bon-chan
Ku Bon-chan
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 Ku at the 2016 Summer Olympics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | 구본찬 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | (1993-01-31) 31 January 1993[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 181 cm (5 ft 11 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 84 kg (185 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country |  South Korea | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Archery | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event(s) | recurve | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Andong National University[2] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coached by | Park Chae-soon[3] Moon Hyung-Cheol (national)[4] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Updated on 13 August 2016. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ku Bon-chan (Korean pronunciation: [ku.bon.tɕʰan] or [ku] [pon.tɕʰan]; born 31 January 1993) is a South Korean recurve archer. He won an individual and a team gold medal at the 2016 Olympics and two team gold medals at the 2015 World Championships.
Career[edit]
Ku Bon-chan with coach after winning the gold medal at the 2016 Olympics
He made his international debut at the 2014 Archery World Cup after having participated in numerous Asian competitions prior.[2] Ku competed in the individual recurve event, team recurve event, and recurve mixed team event at the 2015 World Archery Championships in Copenhagen, Denmark, where he took home gold medals in the team recurve event and recurve mixed team event.[5] Ku represented South Korea in the men's team archery event and men's individual archery event at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Ku and the South Korean team won the gold medal in the team event. Ku shot six consecutive perfect tens across three sets in the gold medal match against the United States.[6] South Korea's victory against the United States marked the first time a South Korean archery team had beaten an archery team from the United States at the Olympics. In the men's individual archery event, Ku defeated Frenchman Jean-Charles Valladont in the final to win his second Olympic gold medal.[7]
References[edit]
^ "Ku Bonchan". Rio2016. Archived from the original on 6 August 2016. Retrieved 2016-08-09.
^ ab "Ku Bonchan". World Archery. Retrieved 6 August 2016.
^ "20-something friends team up for 1st Olympic gold in archery". The Korea Herald. 2016-08-07. Retrieved 2016-08-09.
^ Enjoyment key to Korea’s Olympic clean sweep. worldarchery.org
^ "2015 World Archery Championships: Entries by country" (PDF). ianseo.net. pp. 7–18. Retrieved 26 August 2015.
^ "USA make do with silver in men's team archery as South Koreans clinch gold". The Guardian. Retrieved 6 August 2016.
^ Ransom, Ian (August 12, 2016). "Archery: Cool Ku secures South Korean sweep". Reuters. Retrieved August 13, 2016.
External links[edit]
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Ku Bonchan at the World Archery Federation
KU Bonchan at the International Olympic Committee
Olympic Archery Champions in Men's Team | |
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Park S., Chun, Lee H. 
Holgado, Menéndez, Vázquez 
Huish, Johnson, White 
Jang, Kim C., Oh 
Frangilli, Galiazzo, Nespoli 
Kim W., Ku, Lee S. Olympic Archery Champions in Men's Individual | |
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Tomi Poikolainen 
Sébastien Flute 
Simon Fairweather 
Marco Galiazzo 
Viktor Ruban   | This biographical article relating to a South Korean archery figure is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
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- 1993 births
- Living people
- South Korean male archers
- Asian Games medalists in archery
- Archers at the 2014 Asian Games
- World Archery Championships medalists
- Olympic archers of South Korea
- Archers at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Olympic gold medalists for South Korea
- Olympic medalists in archery
- Asian Games bronze medalists for South Korea
- Medalists at the 2014 Asian Games
- Universiade medalists in archery
- South Korean sportspeople stubs
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