Ku Bon-chan - Wikipedia

South Korean archer (born 1993) Ku Bon-chan

Ku at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Personal information
Full name	구본찬
Born	(1993-01-31) 31 January 1993 (age 31)[1]Gyeongju, South Korea
Height	181 cm (5 ft 11 in)
Weight	84 kg (185 lb)
Sport
Country	South Korea
Sport	Archery
Event	recurve
Club	Andong National University[2]
Coached by	Park Chae-soon[3]Moon Hyung-Cheol (national)[4]
Medal record Men's recurve archery Representing  South Korea Olympic Games 2016 Rio de Janeiro Team 2016 Rio de Janeiro Individual World Championships 2015 Copenhagen Team 2015 Copenhagen Mixed team Asian Games 2014 Incheon Team Asian Championships 2013 Taipei Team 2013 Taipei Mixed team World Cup Final 2016 Odense Mixed team 2016 Odense Individual Summer Universiade 2015 Gwangju Team 2015 Gwangju Individual
Updated on 13 August 2016

In this Korean name, the family name is Ku.

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

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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

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1. ^ "Ku Bonchan". Rio2016. Archived from the original on 6 August 2016. Retrieved 9 August 2016.
2. ^ a b "Ku Bonchan". World Archery. Retrieved 6 August 2016.
3. ^ "20-something friends team up for 1st Olympic gold in archery". The Korea Herald. 7 August 2016. Retrieved 9 August 2016.
4. ^ Enjoyment key to Korea’s Olympic clean sweep. worldarchery.org
5. ^ "2015 World Archery Championships: Entries by country" (PDF). ianseo.net. pp. 7–18. Retrieved 26 August 2015.
6. ^ "USA make do with silver in men's team archery as South Koreans clinch gold". The Guardian. 6 August 2016. Retrieved 6 August 2016.
7. ^ Ransom, Ian (12 August 2016). "Archery: Cool Ku secures South Korean sweep". Reuters. Retrieved 13 August 2016.

External links

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• Ku Bonchan at World Archery
• KU Bonchan at Olympics.com

v t e Olympic Archery Champions in Men's Team
1988:  Chun, Lee H., Park S. (KOR) 1992:  Holgado, Menéndez, Vázquez (ESP) 1996:  Huish, Johnson, White (USA) 2000:  Jang, Kim C., Oh K. (KOR) 2004:  Im, Jang, Park K. (KOR) 2008:  Im, Lee C., Park K. (KOR) 2012:  Frangilli, Galiazzo, Nespoli (ITA) 2016:  Kim W., Ku, Lee S. (KOR) 2020:  Kim J., Kim W., Oh J. (KOR) 2024:  Kim J., Kim W., Lee W. (KOR)

v t e Olympic Archery Champions in Men's Individual
1972:  John Williams (USA) 1976:  Darrell Pace (USA) 1980:  Tomi Poikolainen (FIN) 1984:  Darrell Pace (USA) 1988:  Jay Barrs (USA) 1992:  Sébastien Flute (FRA) 1996:  Justin Huish (USA) 2000:  Simon Fairweather (AUS) 2004:  Marco Galiazzo (ITA) 2008:  Viktor Ruban (UKR) 2012:  Oh Jin-hyek (KOR) 2016:  Ku Bon-chan (KOR) 2020:  Mete Gazoz (TUR) 2024:  Kim Woo-jin (KOR)

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