Oh Eun-seok

This is a Korean name; the family name is Oh.

Oh Eun-seok

160px Oh at 2013 World Fencing Championships
Personal information
Born	(1983-04-02) 2 April 1983
Sport
Sport	Fencing
Korean name
Hangul	오은석
Hanja	吳恩錫
Revised Romanization	O Eunseok
McCune–Reischauer	O Ŭnsŏk
Medal record Olympic Games 2012 London Team sabre World Championships 2014 Kazan Team sabre 2007 St. Petersburg Individual 2013 Budapest Team sabre Universiade 2003 Daegu Individual Asian Games 2006 Doha Individual 2006 Doha Team sabre 2010 Guangzhou Team sabre 2010 Guangzhou Individual Asian Championships 2011 Seoul Team sabre

Oh Eun-seok (born 2 April 1983) is a South Korean sabre fencer.

Oh won gold in team sabre and silver in individual sabre at the 2003 Junior World Fencing Championships in Trapani, Italy.

At the 2007 FIE World Championships he won the bronze medal in the men's individual sabre category after losing to four-time Olympic champion and ten-time world champion Stanislav Pozdnyakov of Russia 12–15 in the semifinals.

Oh qualified for the 2008 Beijing Olympics for the individual sabre competition. On August 12, 2008, he won his first round 15–8 win against Dmitri Lapkes of Belarus, but ultimately had a 15–11 loss to eventual silver medalist Nicolas Lopez of France in the round of 16. He finished 13th.

At 2012 London Olympics, he participated as substitute for the team sabre competition. Despite not getting his chance for participating in quarterfinal match against Germany, and semifinal match against Italy, he came out on final match against Romania on 8th bout. He faced Alexandru Sirițeanu, who came out as substitute for the Romanian side. The bout finished in just 14 seconds, when Oh accumulated 5 points for the Korean side, while conceding 1 point. Ultimately, he won gold medal along with his teammates Gu Bon-gil, Won Woo-young, and Kim Jung-hwan.

Achievements

2007 World Fencing Championships, Individual sabre

2012 Summer Olympics, Team sabre

External links

• Oh Eun-seok on Cyworld