champion

A Korean Sung Bong HA player wins a clean score for the first time! !

prize winner

  1. 1st:Sung Bong HA (Korea)
  2. 2nd:Yuzheng GUO (CHINA)
  3. 3rd:Fernando AGUILAR (ARGENTINA)
  4. 4th:Nai San CHAN (C.HONG KONG)
  5. 5th:Yoshiyuki TSUCHIMUNE (JAPAN)
  6. 5th:Gheorghe Cornel BURZO (ROMANIA)
  7. 7th:Mozheng GUAN (USA)
  8. 8th:Pal BALOGH (HUNGARY)
  9. 9th:Franz-Josef DICKHUT (GERMANY)
  10. 10th:Tsung-Lin YANG (C・TAIPEI)

The prize for Asada fighting spirit is France representative Pierre AUDOUARD!

Date
28 May-31 May 2008 
Venue
Nihon Ki-in in Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo
Sponsored by
The Nihon Ki-in
Supervised by
The International Go Federation
Sponsor
Japan Airlines/Autodesk, Inc.
With the support of
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs/The Japan Foundation
With the cooperation of
The Kansai Ki-in

Participants

ASIA:14 players
(China, Chinese Taipei, Hong Kong China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Mongolia, Nepal, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam)
MIDDLE&NEAR EAST: 2 players
(Israel, Turkey)
EUROPE:33players
(Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, United Kingdom)
AFRICA:3 players
(Madagascar, Morocco, South Africa)
NORTH &CENTRAL AMERICA:7 players
(Canada, U.S.A., Costa Rica, Cuba, Guatemala,Mexico, Panama,)
SOUTH AMERICA:8players
(Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Uruguay,Venezuela)
OCEANIA: 2players
(Australia, New Zealand)