Seo Geon-woo

Seo Geon-woo (Korean: 서건우; born 20 December 2003) is a South Korean taekwondo practitioner.

Seo Goon-woo

Personal information
Born	20 December 2003 (2003-12-20) (age 21) Seoul, South Korea [1]
Height	184 cm (6 ft 0 in)
Sport
Sport	Taekwondo
Medal record Men's taekwondo Representing  South Korea World Championships 2025 Wuxi 80 kg Asian Games 2022 Hangzhou Mixed team Asian Championships 2024 Da Nang 80 kg 2022 Chuncheon 80 kg World University Games 2025 Rhine-Ruhr 80 kg 2025 Rhine-Ruhr Team Kyorugi 2021 Chengdu 80 kg

Career

At the 2022 Asian Taekwondo Championships he won bronze in the 80 kg category in Chuncheon, South Korea. That year, he won bronze at the delayed 2021 Summer World University Games in Chengdu.^[2]

He was a silver medalist at the 2022 Asian Games in the mixed team event.^[3][4] During the 2022 World Taekwondo Grand Prix series he won the event in Manchester, England.^[5] He won in Manchester again during the 2023 World Taekwondo Grand Prix series in the 80 kg event.^[6]

He was a bronze medalist in the -80 kg category at the 2024 Asian Taekwondo Championships in Vietnam.^[7] He was selected for the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris for his Olympic debut.^[8][9][10] He lost to Edi Hrnic of Denmark in the bronze medal match.^[11]

He won the gold medal in the -80kg category at the 2025 World University Games in Germany, Jiunyi Hung of Chinese Taipei 2-1 in the final.^[12] He also won the gold medal in the team kyorugi event, as the discipline made its debut as a medal event.^[13]

In October 2025, he won the bronze medal at the 2025 World Taekwondo Championships in the men's welterweight division, after he defeated the Olympic champion Firas Katousi of Tunisia in the quarter-final.^[14][15]