Kang Yu-jeong | |||||||||||||
Birth Date: | 2 August 1996 | ||||||||||||
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Country: | South Korea | ||||||||||||
Weight Class: | 48 kg | ||||||||||||
Worlds Rank: | R16 | ||||||||||||
Worlds Year: | 2017 | ||||||||||||
Worlds Weight: | Women's 48 kg | ||||||||||||
Worlds Year2: | 2018 | ||||||||||||
Worlds Weight2: | Women's 48 kg | ||||||||||||
Worlds Year3: | 2019 | ||||||||||||
Worlds Weight3: | Women's 48 kg | ||||||||||||
Regionals Type: | AS | ||||||||||||
Regionals Rank: | 3 | ||||||||||||
Regionals Year: | 2015 | ||||||||||||
Regionals Year2: | 2017 | ||||||||||||
Olympics Rank: | R32 | ||||||||||||
Olympics Year: | 2020 | ||||||||||||
Olympics Weight: | Women's 48 kg | ||||||||||||
Updated: | 26 November 2022 |
Kang Yu-jeong (born 2 August 1996) is a South Korean judoka.[1] [2] She represented South Korea at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. She competed in the women's 48 kg event.[3]
As a first-year student at in Yeosu, Kang won a gold medal in the 42 kg category at the 38th National Junior Sports Festival in 2009.[4] She subsequently attended .[5], she represented the Suncheon City Hall team in domestic competition.[6] She is the silver medallist of the 2018 Judo Grand Slam Paris in the 48 kg category.[7]
In 2021, she competed in the women's 48 kg event at the 2021 World Judo Championships held in Budapest, Hungary.