[National Sports Festival] AG fencing double winner Oh Sang-wook wins men's saber individual competition for the second time in a row (overall)

(Seogwipo·Jeju = Yonhap News) Reporter Choi Song-ah and Kim Kyung-yoon = The Taegeuk Warriors, who led the Korean team's medal competition at the 2026 Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games, continued their performance at the 107th National Sports Festival.

Oh Sang-wook (Daejeon Metropolitan City Hall), the representative of the Korean men's fencing saber who swept the individual and team competitions at the Asian Games, represented his hometown Daejeon in the men's fencing individual saber competition held at the Seogwipo City Sports Complex in Jeju Island on the 16th and won a gold medal.

Sangwook Oh achieved his second consecutive victory in the individual competition at the National Sports Festival since last year and his seventh overall victory in the general division.

In the first match of the day, the round of 16, Oh Sang-wook clashed with Koo Bon-gil (Busan Metropolitan City Hall), a former national team player and 2024 winner, in a close match at the beginning, but took the lead in the middle and won 15-10.

He defeated Lee Han-seok (Chungnam Sports Council) 15-5 in the quarterfinals and then defeated junior Do Gyeong-dong (Daegu Metropolitan City Hall), who won the team gold medal at the 2024 Paris Olympics and the recent Asian Games, 15-14 to advance to the finals.

In the final against Ha Han-sol (Seongnam City Hall), he played an overwhelming game up to 12-0 and completed his gold medal with a 15-1 victory.

Jeon Ha-young (Seoul City Hall), who led the way in winning the gold medal in the women's saber team event at the Asian Games, defeated Choi Ji-young (Iksan City Hall) 15-13 in the final and regained the top spot in the individual event at the National Sports Festival for the first time in two years.

Song Sera (Busan Metropolitan City Hall), the gold medalist in the women's epee individual event at the Asian Games, was defeated by Choi In-jeong (Gangwon Provincial Government) 8-15 in the semifinals and had to be satisfied with the bronze medal.

Choi In-jeong, who advanced to the finals by defeating Song Se-ra, also defeated the current national team member Lim Tae-hee (Gyeryong City Hall) to reach the top.

Lee Hyeon-ji (Yongin University), the top female heavyweight in judo who won silver medals at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games and recently won the International Judo Federation (IJF) World Championships, defeated Kim Min-young (Korea National Sport University) in a round of bets 9 seconds after the start of the match to win the women's university judo over 78kg final held at the Namnyeong High School gymnasium in Jeju City.

In the quarterfinals on this day, Hyunji Lee defeated Hyebin Lee (Yongin University) with a round of ankle kicks 23 seconds into the game, and in the semifinals, she defeated Mikyung Kim (Yongin University) with a round of thigh hooks 10 seconds into the game, winning all matches within 30 seconds.

Kim Min-young, the Asian Games Kurashi women's over-87kg gold medalist, returned to her main profession, judo, and attempted to win the gold medal, but was unable to overcome Lee Hyun-ji's barrier.

Mo Su-min (Korea National Sport University), who won the silver medal in the Kurashi women's 78kg class in Nagoya, competed in the women's college judo 70kg class and won the championship by defeating Kang Min-ji (Korea National Sports University) with a piggyback throw followed by a round of pressing.

Nam Dong-heon (Gyeongbuk Equestrian Association), winner of the individual dressage event at the Asian Games, ranked third with 67.352 points in the finals of the general dressage division of the competition held at the Jeju National University equestrian center.

The winner was Hwang Young-sik (Daejeon Equestrian Association, 71.176 points), gold medalist at the 2014 Incheon Asian Games.

Various records were broken in weightlifting.

Son Hyeon-ho (Gwangju Metropolitan City Hall) won the men's regular 75kg class held at the Sarabong Multipurpose Gymnasium in Jeju City, setting new Korean records in the clean and jerk (199kg) and total (353kg), respectively. Seonghwan Seo (Daejeon City Weightlifting Federation) won the men's general weightlifting 65kg class in the snatch (137kg) and clean and jerk (169kg). He won the gold medal in total (306kg), setting a new Korean junior record.

Park Joo-hyun (Goyang City Hall) also set Korean junior records in weight (158kg) and total (349kg) in the men's 85kg class.

A new Korean record was also set in a shooting held at the Changwon International Shooting Range in Gyeongnam.

Seongbin Gong (Boeun County Office) scored a Korean record of 635.3 points in the men's general air rifle individual finals.

Canoeist Cho Kwang-hee (Ulsan City Hall), a double gold medalist at the Aichi and Nagoya Asian Games, took first place with a time of 3 minutes 43.591 seconds in the men's kayak general division single-man (K1) 1,000m final held at the Seonakdong River Rowing Canoe Stadium in Gangseo-gu, Busan.

In the breaking men's general division held at the Jungmun High School gymnasium in Jeju City, Park In-su (Gangwon-do Dance Sports Federation) won the championship by defeating Park Min-hyuk (Jeonnam Dance Sports Federation) with a round score of 2-1.

Hong Ten (Kim Hong-yeol), who won silver medals in two consecutive Asian Games in Hangzhou and Nagoya, did not participate.

This competition opened on this day with an opening ceremony held at the Jeju World Cup Stadium in Seogwipo-si, Jeju.

Lee Hyun-ji, from Jeju Island, was the final ignitor of the torch.

The competition will be held throughout Jeju Island until the 22nd.