'3-Game Winning Streak Challenge' Men's Sabre Fencing Advances to Team Semifinals by Defeating Canada [Paris Olympics]

The men's sabre fencing team, aiming for a third consecutive Olympic team title, defeated Canada to advance to the semifinals.

Composed of Oh Sang-wook (Daejeon Metropolitan City Hall), Koo Bon-gil (Korea Sports Promotion Foundation), Park Sang-won (Daejeon Metropolitan City Hall), and Do Kyung-dong (Armed Forces Sports Unit), the men's sabre team won 45-33 against Canada in the quarterfinals of the 2024 Paris Olympics team event held on the 31st at the Grand Palais in Paris, France.

Park Sang-won is facing Canada's Pares Afra in the men's sabre team quarterfinals at the 2024 Paris Olympics held at the Grand Palais in Paris, France, on the 31st (local time).
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The men's sabre team is pursuing a third consecutive team title following the 2012 London and the 2020 Tokyo Olympics held in 2021. The event was not held at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics due to event rotation.

Oh Sang-wook, who became the first Korean male sabre fencer to reach the Olympic individual final and win the gold medal, is now challenging to become the first Korean fencer to win two Olympic gold medals.

In the quarterfinals, Korea trailed 8-10 after the second round, but the youngest member Park Sang-won reversed the situation with a 15-11 lead in the third round. Then, Oh Sang-wook delivered an almost perfect performance in the fifth round, allowing only one point and extending the lead to 25-19.

After Park Sang-won scored 30-21 against Shaul Gordon in the sixth round, Koo Bon-gil secured the victory by making it 35-22 against Fran?ois Cossion in the seventh round.

Korea will compete for a place in the final against the winner of the Egypt-France match.

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