South Korea has dominated fencing at this year’s Asian Games at home and two individual champions will go after team titles on Wednesday.
Gu Bon-gil, the men’s sabre champion, will enter the team competition with Kim Jung-hwan, Won Woo-young and Oh Eun-seok. The same foursome won the team sabre gold at the 2012 Olympics. Gu beat Kim for the individual gold earlier.
Korea’s Gu Bon-gil (Yonhap)
On the women’s side, Jeon Hee-sook, who took the individual foil gold, will team up with Nam Hyun-hee, Oh Ha-na and Kim Mi-na.
South Korea has won the past three Asiad gold medals in the women’s team foil, and Nam competed on all three teams.
South Korea picked up four out of six individual gold medals at stake in Incheon.
In the pool, swimming star Park Tae-hwan will chase his second relay medal in the 4x100 freestyle relay.
On Monday, he anchored South Korea to bronze in the 4x200 freestyle relay.
Elsewhere, weightlifter Sa Jae-hyouk will compete in the men’s 85-kilogram event. The 2008 Olympic champ has returned from a devastating elbow injury he suffered two years ago, and will chase his first Asiad gold in his new weight class.
In baseball, the defending champ South Korea meets Chinese Taipei in Group B action, a rematch of the gold medal contest at the previous Asian Games in Guangzhou. The two countries are favored to reach the semifinals out of Group B, and should meet again in the gold medal game.
South Korea has built a team mostly of the top players in its domestic league, the Korea Baseball Organization.
(Yonhap)
