Jang Kyung-gu (born 19 May 1990) is a South Korean

road bicycle racer Road bicycle racing is the cycle sport discipline of road cycling, held primarily on paved roads. Road racing is the most popular professional form of bicycle racing, in terms of numbers of competitors, events and spectators. The two most common ...

. He competed in the road race competition of

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and

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Asian Games, finishing 13th and first respectively. He is the first Korean athlete to win a gold medal in the cycling road race since Kim Yong-mi in the women's road race at the

2002 Asian Games The 2002 Asian Games ( ko, 2002년 아시아 경기대회/2002년 아시안 게임, Icheoni-nyeon Asia gyeonggi daehoe/Icheoni-nyeon Asian Geim), officially known as the XIV Asian Games ( ko, 제14회 아시아 경기대회/제14회 아시안 � ...

Major results

;2010 : 2nd Overall Tour de Seoul : 7th Overall

Tour de Korea The Tour de Korea is an annual professional road bicycle racing stage race held in South Korea since 2000 as part of the UCI Asia Tour. It was rated by the International Cycling Union (UCI) as a 2.2 category race between 2005 and 2013, then promot ...

::1st Stage 7 ;2011 : 1st Overall

Tour de Hokkaido The Tour de Hokkaido is an annual professional road bicycle racing stage race held in Hokkaido, Japan since 1987 as part of the UCI Asia Tour. It is rated by the International Cycling Union (UCI) as a 2.2 category race. The event for 2018 was ...

: 4th Road race, Asian Road Championships ;2012 : 4th Overall

::1st Young rider classification : Asian Road Championships ::8th Road race ::8th Time trial ;2014 : 1st Gold medal blank

Road race,

Asian Games The Asian Games, also known as Asiad, is a continental multi-sport event held every four years among athletes from all over Asia. The Games were regulated by the Asian Games Federation (AGF) from the first Games in New Delhi, India, until t ...

::1st Mountains classification ::1st Stage 6 : 5th Road race, Asian Road Championships ;2015 : 1st South Korean NC

Time trial, National Road Championships : 1st Mountains classification

;2016 : 1st Stage 6

Tour de Singkarak Tour de Singkarak (abbreviated TdS) is an annual professional road bicycle racing stage race held in West Sumatra, Indonesia, and named after the Lake Singkarak. First staged in 2009, Tour de Singkarak is classified by the Union Cycling Inte ...

: 3rd Time trial, National Road Championships ;2017 : 1st South Korean NC

Road race, National Road Championships ;2018 : 2nd Time trial, National Road Championships : 6th Road race,

;2021 : 1st South Korean NC

Road race, National Road Championships ;2022 : 5th Time trial, National Road Championships ;2023 :

Tour of Thailand The Tour of Thailand, officially the Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhon's Cup Tour of Thailand is an annual professional road bicycle racing stage race held in Thailand. It was classified by the International Cycling Union as a 2.2 category race as ...

::1st Stage 5 ::1st Mountains classification

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* * 1990 births Living people Asian Games medalists in cycling Cyclists at the 2010 Asian Games Cyclists at the 2014 Asian Games Cyclists at the 2018 Asian Games Cyclists at the 2022 Asian Games Asian Games gold medalists for South Korea Medalists at the 2014 Asian Games {{SouthKorea-cycling-bio-stub