Oh Sang-uk

Oh Sang-uk (Korean: 오상욱; born 30 September

1996) is a South Korean right-handed sabre fencer.[1] Oh Sang-uk

Oh is a five-time team Asian champion, 2019 and 2024

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
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,
known as a high school fencing powerhouse in the
region, and began representing the national team in the Personal information
youth categories. During his senior year, he won gold Born 30 September 1996
in the individual sabre event at the national high school Daejeon, South Korea
championships and his high school team won in the Height 1.92 m (6 ft 4 in)
team event.[4] Sport
Country South Korea

Career Weapon Sabre

Hand right-handed
Oh had been a stand-out in the junior and cadet Club Daejeon City
categories and quickly drew attention for defeating
Head coach Kim Hyung-Yeol
then-ranked world number 1 and 2012 Olympic team
gold medalist Gu Bon-gil in the Round of 16 of the FIE ranking current ranking (https://fie.org/ath
2015 National Championships.[2] He was earmarked as letes/36990)
a successor to Kim Jung-hwan, whom he idolized in Medal record
high school and who was speculated to be retiring after Men's sabre
the 2016 Olympics, due to their similar aggressive
Representing South Korea
style of play and agility.[5] While he did not make it to
the final, he was ranked high enough to qualify for the Event 1st 2nd 3rd

senior national team, a rarity for a teenager as fencers Olympic Games 3 0 0

were generally selected for the national team while in World Championships 5 1 0
college. At that time, the men's sabre team went Asian Championships 6 0 1
through a generational change with the retirements of
Total 14 1 1
2012 Olympic team gold medalists Oh Eun-seok and Olympic Games
Won Woo-young. The nineteen-year-old was added 2020 Tokyo Team
into the team with Kim Jun-ho, joining veterans Kim 2024 Paris Individual
Jung-hwan and Gu Bon-gil for the 2016 Asian
2024 Paris Team
Championships. He won his first ever gold medal in a
major international tournament when they won the World Championships
team gold. 2017 Leipzig Team
2018 Wuxi Team
Due the now-abolished rotation system, there was no
2019 Budapest Individual
men's team sabre event at the 2016 Summer Olympics.
Oh did not rank high enough to qualify for the 2019 Budapest Team
individual event. He won back-to-back gold medals 2022 Cairo Team
with the same team at the World Championships and 2023 Milan Team
Asian Championships, in 2017 and 2018.[6] In the Asian Games
2018 Asian Games, he reached the final of the 2018 Jakarta Team
individual event and was defeated by Gu, taking silver.
2018 Jakarta Individual
However, his gold medal in the team event meant that
he was exempted from mandatory military service.[7] 2022 Hangzhou Team
Kim Jung-hwan retired from the national team after the 2022 Hangzhou Individual
Asian Games and was replaced by Ha Han-sol. Asian Championships
2016 Wuxi Team
Oh won four gold medals in 2019, winning in both the
team and individual events at the World 2017 Hong Kong Team

Championships and Asian Championships. Kim Jung- 2019 Chiba Individual

hwan came out of retirement and the gold medal- 2019 Chiba Team
winning team from the 2017 and 2018 Worlds was 2024 Kuwait City Individual
reunited again and qualified for the 2020 Summer 2024 Kuwait City Team
Olympics, which was postponed for a year. He was
2018 Bangkok Team
nearly unable to participate as he contracted COVID-
19 several months prior to the Olympics and then Universiade
sustained an ankle injury during pre-competition 2017 Taipei Team
training.[8][9] 2019 Naples Individual
2019 Naples Team
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 Oh Sang-uk
won his first Olympic medal when they won gold in Hangul 오상욱
the team event.[10] In the team semi-finals, he scored
Hanja 吳尙旭
the last point in a narrow 45–42 win over Germany,
sending the South Koreans to the final for a second Revised Romanization O Sanguk
consecutive time.[11] During the final against Italy, McCune–Reischauer O Sanguk
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

Olympic Games

Year Location Event Position

2021 Tokyo, Japan Team Men's Sabre 1st[12]

Individual Men's Sabre 1st[13]

2024 Paris, France
Team Men's Sabre 1st

World Championships

Year Location Event Position

2017 Leipzig, Germany Team Men's Sabre 1st[14]

2018 Wuxi, China Team Men's Sabre 1st[15]

2019 Budapest, Hungary Individual Men's Sabre 1st[16]

2019 Budapest, Hungary Team Men's Sabre 1st[17]

Grand Prix

Date Location Event Position

2017-12-15 Cancún, Mexico Individual Men's Sabre 1st[18]

2018-05-11 Moscow, Russia Individual Men's Sabre 1st[19]

2019-02-22 Cairo, Egypt Individual Men's Sabre 1st[20]

2019-04-26 Seoul, South Korea Individual Men's Sabre 1st[21]

2021-11-11 Orleans, France Individual Men's Sabre 3rd[22]

2023-04-29 Seoul, South Korea Individual Men's Sabre 1st[23]

World Cup

Date Location Event Position

2015-01-30 Padua, Italy Individual Men's Sabre 3rd[24]

2016-12-02 Győr, Hungary Individual Men's Sabre 1st[25]

2017-02-03 Padua, Italy Individual Men's Sabre 3rd[26]

2017-12-01 Győr, Hungary Individual Men's Sabre 1st[27]

2018-05-18 Madrid, Spain Individual Men's Sabre 3rd[28]

2018-11-16 Algier, Algeria Individual Men's Sabre 3rd[29]

2019-02-01 Warsaw, Poland Individual Men's Sabre 3rd[30]

2019-03-22 Budapest, Hungary Individual Men's Sabre 2nd[31]

2019-05-10 Madrid, Spain Individual Men's Sabre 3rd[32]

2020-02-21 Warsaw, Poland Individual Men's Sabre 3rd[33]

2020-03-06 Individual Men's Sabre 3rd[34]

Luxembourg
2020-03-08 Team Men's Sabre 1st[35]

2021-03-11 Budapest, Hungary Individual Men's Sabre 1st[36]

2022-03-18 Budapest, Hungary Individual Men's Sabre 3rd[37]

2022-05-06 Individual Men's Sabre 1st[38]

Madrid, Spain
2022-05-08 Team Men's Sabre 1st[39]

2022-07-15 Cairo, Egypt Team Men's Sabre 1st[40]

Asian Championship

Year Location Event Position

2016 Wuxi, China Team Men's Sabre 1st[41]

2017 Hong Kong, China Team Men's Sabre 1st[42]

2018 Bangkok, Thailand Team Men's Sabre 3rd[43]

2019 Tokyo, Japan Individual Men's Sabre 1st[44]

2019 Tokyo, Japan Team Men's Sabre 1st[45]

2022 Seoul, South Korea Individual Men's Sabre 3rd[46]

2022 Seoul, South Korea Team Men's Sabre 1st[47]

2024 Kuwait City, Kuwait Individual Men's Sabre 1st[48]

2024 Kuwait City, Kuwait Team Men's Sabre 1st[48]

Performance timeline

National team

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

2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023

Team Events
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

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

 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023
Team Events
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
Oh attended Daejeon University, known for its fencing team, on a scholarship and graduated in
2019.[49][50]

Filmography

Television shows

Year Title Role Notes Ref.

2021 Racket Boys Club members Episode 1–12 [51]

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External links
Oh Sang-uk (https://fie.org/athletes/36990) at the International Fencing Federation
Oh Sang-uk (https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/145003) at Olympedia
Oh Sang-uk (https://olympics.com/en/athletes/sanguk-oh) at Olympics.com

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