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| Heath Young | |
| Fullname: | Heath Francis Young |
| Sport: | Judo |
| Event: | 66 kg |
| Club: | Tiger-Do Judo Academy |
| Coach: | Terry Young |
| Birth Date: | 1978 9, df=y |
| Birth Place: | Sydney, Australia |
| Weight: | 660NaN0 |
| Show-Medals: | yes |
Heath Francis Young (born 21 September 1978 in Sydney) is an Australian judoka, who competed in the men's half-lightweight category.[1] He held five Australian titles in his own division, picked up a total of thirteen medals in his career, including two golds from the Oceania Championships, and represented his nation Australia in the 66-kg class at the 2004 Summer Olympics. Throughout his sporting career, Young trained full-time for the senior team at Tiger-Do Judo Academy in his native Sydney, under his personal coach, father, and sensei Terry Young.
Young qualified for the Australian squad in the men's half-lightweight class (66 kg) at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, by topping the field of judoka and receiving a berth from the Oceania Championships in Noumea, New Caledonia.[2] He opened his match with a more satisfying victory over Bolivia's Juan José Paz by points on waza-ari, before losing out in an earth-shattering ippon defeat with a stunning shoulder throw to Cuban judoka and eventual bronze medalist Yordanis Arencibia.[3] [4] In the repechage, Young gave himself a chance for an Olympic bronze medal, but crashed out in the first round of the draft, as Venezuela's Ludwig Ortíz tightly pinned him on the tatami with a kuzure kami shiho gatame (broken upper four-quarter hold-down) at one minute and ten seconds.[5]