Keagan Young Explained

Keagan Young
Birth Date:30 July 2001
Birth Place:Markham, Ontario, Canada
Country:Canada
Weight Class:81 kg, 90 kg
Regionals Type:AM
Regionals Rank:5
Regionals Year:2022
Updated:3 July 2022

Keagan Young (born 30 July 2001) is a Canadian judoka who competes in the men's 90 kg category and formerly in the 81 kg category.[1] Young was raised and lives in Markham, Ontario, Canada.[2]

Career

Junior

At the 2017 World Judo Cadets Championships in Santiago, Chile, Young won the bronze medal in the 66 kg category.[3]

In July 2018, Young won gold at the Pan American Cadet Judo Championships in Cordoba, Argentina and became the world's number one ranked cadet judoka in the 81 kg category.[4] [5] Young won Canada's first medal at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics in Buenos Aires, Argentina, a bronze medal in the –81 kg event.[6] [7]

Senior

In the senior category, Young moved up a weight category to compete in the 90 kg event. At the 2022 Pan American-Oceania Judo Championships in Lima, Peru, Young finished in fifth in the 90 kg category.[8] Young was named to his first national senior multi-sport event team for the 2022 Commonwealth Games in June 2022.[9]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Keagan Young. judoinside.com. 1 July 2022.
  2. News: Cudmore. John. 28 June 2017. Rising judo star Keagan Young simply will not act his age. Yorkregion.com. Toronto, Ontario, Canada. 3 July 2022. The Markham resident is taking on older and more experienced opponents regularly and tossing them aside as he cuts out a swath for himself on the Canadian judo scene..
  3. Web site: Keagan Young wins Bronze medal at 2017 World Cadet Judo Championships. 10 August 2017. www.judoontario.ca/. Judo Ontario. 1 July 2022.
  4. News: Cudmore. John. 11 July 2018. Markham's Keagan Young gains No. 1 world judo ranking after Pan Ams victory. Yorkregion.com. Toronto, Ontario, Canada. 1 July 2022.
  5. News: McNair. Brian. 2 August 2018. Ajax Budokan's Keagan Young taking the judo world by storm. Durhamregion.com. Toronto, Ontario, Canada. 1 July 2022.
  6. Web site: Keagan Young claims Canada's 1st medal at Youth Olympic Games. 8 October 2018. www.cbc.ca/. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). 1 July 2022.
  7. Web site: Young clinches judo bronze, Team Canada’s first medal at Buenos Aires 2018. Wallace. Camille. 8 October 2018. www.olympic.ca/. Canadian Olympic Committee. 1 July 2022.
  8. Web site: Results of Day 2 of the Lima 2022 Pan American and Oceania Championships. www.panamjudo.org. Pan American Judo Confederation. 1 July 2022.
  9. Web site: Canadian Judo Team Named for 2022 Commonwealth Games. 21 June 2022. www.judocanada.org. Judo Canada. 21 June 2022.

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