Kim Seung-gu

In this Korean name, the family name is Kim.

Kim Seung-gu (Korean: 김승구 ; born May 20, 1981) is a South Korean épée fencer.^[1] He won two medals (one gold and one silver), as a member of the South Korean fencing team, at the 2006 Asian Games in Doha, Qatar.^[2]

Kim Seung-gu

Personal information
Nationality	South Korea
Born	(1981-05-20) 20 May 1981 (age 44)
Height	176 cm (5 ft 9 in)
Weight	71 kg (157 lb)
Sport
Sport	Fencing
Event	Épée
Korean name
Hangul	김승구
Revised Romanization	Gim Seunggu
McCune–Reischauer	Kim Sŭnggu
Medal record Asian Games 2006 Doha Team épée 2006 Doha Épée

Kim represented South Korea at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where he competed in two épée events. For his first event, the men's individual épée, Kim defeated South Africa's Sello Maduma in the first preliminary round, before losing out his next match to Hungary's Géza Imre, with a sudden death score of 14–15.^[3] Few days later, he joined with his fellow fencers and teammates Jung Jin-sun and Kim Won-jin, for the men's team épée. Kim and his team, however, lost the seventh place match to the Ukrainian team (led by Dmytro Chumak), with a total score of 39 touches.^[4]