Bang Gui-man

Bang Gui-man
Personal information
Born (1983-05-04) 4 May 1983
Namyangju, Gyeonggi, South Korea
OccupationJudoka
Height1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Sport
CountrySouth Korea
SportJudo
Weight class‍–‍66 kg, ‍–‍73 kg
ClubNamyangju City Hall
Coached byCho In-chul
Achievements and titles
Olympic GamesR32 (2004)
World Champ.R16 (2007)
Asian Champ. (2007, 2009)
Medal record
Men's judo
Representing  South Korea
Asian Games
2014 Incheon Men's team
2014 Incheon ‍–‍73 kg
Asian Championships
2007 Kuwait City ‍–‍66 kg
2009 Taipei ‍–‍73 kg
2004 Almaty ‍–‍66 kg
2005 Tashkent ‍–‍66 kg
World Masters
2010 Suwon ‍–‍73 kg
IJF Grand Slam
2014 Paris ‍–‍73 kg
2010 Moscow ‍–‍73 kg
2013 Tokyo ‍–‍73 kg
IJF Grand Prix
2009 Qingdao ‍–‍73 kg
2013 Rijeka ‍–‍73 kg
Profile at external databases
IJF1847
JudoInside.com28403
Updated on 20 November 2022

Bang Gui-man (also Bang Gwi-man, Korean방귀만; born 4 May 1983, in Namyangju, Gyeonggi) is a South Korean judoka, who competed in the men's lightweight category. He represented his nation South Korea at the 2004 Summer Olympics, picked up four medals in the 66 and 73 kg division at the Asian Judo Championships, and earned a bronze medal at the 2014 Asian Games in Incheon. Throughout his sporting career, Bang trained for Namyangju City Hall's elite judo squad under his longtime coach and mentor Cho In-chul.

Bang qualified for the South Korean squad in the men's half-lightweight class (66 kg) at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, by placing third and receiving a berth from the 2004 Asian Championships in Almaty. He lost his opening match to Brazilian judoka and 1996 Olympic bronze medalist Henrique Guimarães, who successfully scored an ippon and an ōuchi gari (big inner reap), at two minutes and twenty-one seconds.

When South Korea hosted the 2014 Asian Games in Incheon, Bang culminated his ten-year career medal drought from the international scene to score an ippon victory over 2012 Olympian Navruz Jurakobilov of Uzbekistan for a bronze in the men's 73 kg class. Two days later, he helped his fellow South Korean teammates outplay their Kazakh rivals to top the medal podium with a gold in the team competition.

After the World Cup in Rome in October 2010 he tested positive for banner stimulant drug methylhexanamine and was banned for 2 years.