'Best Pencer X 2 Awards' Oh Sang-wook received a luxury watch worth 12.9 million won
Aug 04, 2024
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The official Olympic timekeeper Omega presented the 'Sea Master Diver 300M - Paris 2024 Olympic Memorial Edition' to Oh Sang-wook, South Korea's first individual gold medalist at the 2024 Paris Olympics on the 4th" he said.
The event was held at the Omega House in downtown Paris.
Oh Sang-wook beat Pares Perjani (Tunisia) 15-11 in the men's sabre gain final on the 28th (Korea time) to become Korea's first gold medal. The men's sabre won gold in the team event thanks to Oh Sang-wook's power, and Oh Sang-wook won the first two gold medals in Korean fencing history.
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Oh Ye-jin (IBK Industrial Bank), the first female athlete to win a gold medal, will receive a speedmaster Kronoskov worth 14.2 million won. Oh Ye-jin won the 10-meter air pistol competition held on the 28th.
Omega has announced that it will present an Olympic special edition with the Paris 2024 engraved and the Olympic flag to each of the first gold medalists in the men's and women's individual events at the Paris Olympics. The omega watch award ceremony, which Oh Ye-jin will participate in, will be held later.
Omega presented one gold medalist at the 2012 London Olympics (Shooting Jin Jong-oh), the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics (Speed Skating Lee Sang-hwa), and the 2016 Rio Olympics (Men's Archery Team) with a watch for each man and woman at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics (Short Track Hwang Dae-heon, Choi Min-jeong).
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