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'Men's Sabre Shin Seong' Park Sang-won (24, Daejeon University-Daejeon Metropolitan City Hall, world No. 6) won two individual-team titles at the 2025 Line-Rour Summer World University Games.
Park Sang-won joined Lim Jae-yoon (25, Daejeon-Daejeon Metropolitan City Hall, 38th in the world), Hwang Hee-geun (21, Korea National University, 67th in the world), and Park Jung-ho (23, Honam University-Seongnam City Hall, 133rd in the world) in the men's sabre team event at the Rhine-Rur Summer U Games in Essen, Germany on the 21st (Korea time). In the final against Japan, Park Sang-won, Lim Jae-yoon, and Hwang Hee-geun showed even performances to save the team in every crisis, winning 45 to 30.
1 Bout Park Sang-won was beaten 2-5 by "left-handed ambush" Leo Hiwatashi (340th place in the world), but 2 Bout Lim Jae-yoon caught up to 8-10 with 6-5 over Hayato Tsubo (137th place in the world). After 3 Bout Hwang Hee-geun beat Kato Hibiki (142nd in the world) 7-3 and succeeded in turning the tables 15-13. 4 Bout Lim Jae-yoon pushed Hiwatashi 5-2 to widen the gap to 20-15, while 5 Bout Park Sang-won beat Kato 5-2, and 6 Bout Hwang Hee-geun beat Tsubo 5-1. Seven-bout Lim Jae-yoon beat Kato 5-3 and predicted the championship with a 35-11 score gap to 14 points. 8 Bout Hwang Hee-geun was pushed to 5-8 by Iwatashi, and the gap was slightly narrowed to 29-40, 11 points, but 9 Bout 'final weapon' Park Sang-won tied Tsubo to just one point and lightly stabbed the champion point 45-30.
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Hwang Hee-geun, who proved his potential by beating Park Sang-won to the quarterfinals at the SK Grand Prix this year, won the team gold medal with an individual bronze medal at the first U tournament and a team event come-from-behind runner. In addition, Lim Jae-yoon defended the gold medal with a solid performance responsible for winning all three bouts he played. Park Sang-won, the gold medalist in the men's sabre team event at the Paris Olympics, won two gold medals following the 2021 Chengdu Games and the second consecutive individual event at the U Games.
Meanwhile, in the women's epee team competition held on the same day, Kim Tae-hee (Hanche University, Jeonnam Provincial Government), Lim Tae-hee (Hanche University, Gyeryong City Hall), Kim Na-kyung (Gyeongnam University, Gyeryong City Hall), and Park Ha-bin (Ulsan University, Chungbuk Provincial Government) collaborated for the bronze medal.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
