Jang Woo-jin (born 10 September 1995) is a South Korean
table tennis
Table tennis, also known as ping-pong and whiff-whaff, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight ball, also known as the ping-pong ball, back and forth across a table using small solid rackets. It takes place on a hard table div ...
player.
He plays for
Mirae Asset Daewoo table tennis team.
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Career
Junior
Jang started playing international matches from the South Korean cadet boys' team in 2009 – Bahrain Junior Open held in Manama
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, Bahrain
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. He won boys' singles title at the 2013 World Junior Table Tennis Championships.
2018
He won the gold medal in 2018 Korea Open held at Daejeon
Daejeon () is South Korea's fifth-largest metropolis, with a population of 1.5 million as of 2019. Located in the central-west region of South Korea alongside forested hills and the Geum River, the city is known both for its technology an ...
, South Korea
South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and sharing a Korean Demilitarized Zone, land border with North Korea. Its western border is formed ...
without even having been a seeded player at the start of the tournament.[
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2020
In 2020 ITTF Men's World Cup
The 2020 ITTF Men's World Cup was a table tennis competition held in Weihai, China, from 13 to 15 November 2020. It was the 41st edition of the ITTF-sanctioned event.
After series of cancellation of tournaments due to the impact of the COVID-19 p ...
, he was seeded at 12 and managed to reach up to semi-finals.2020 ITTF Finals
The 2020 ITTF Finals, also referred to as the Bank of Communications 2020 ITTF Finals for sponsorship reasons, was a table tennis tournament that took place from 19 to 22 November 2020 in Zhengzhou, China. The tournament was organised by the Inter ...
, he was seeded at 14 and managed to reach semi-finals again.
2021
Jang Woojin represented South Korea at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics after qualifying by virtue of being the highest ranked Korean player. In March, Jang played in the WTT Star Contender event at WTT Doha, but he suffered a disappointing round of 32 exit to Ruwen Filus.
Jang lost 4–3 to Hugo Calderano in the round of 16 in the men's singles event in the Tokyo Olympics.
Singles titles
References
External links
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1995 births
Living people
South Korean male table tennis players
Medalists at the 2018 Asian Games
Asian Games silver medalists for South Korea
Table tennis players at the 2018 Asian Games
Asian Games medalists in table tennis
Table tennis players at the 2020 Summer Olympics
World Table Tennis Championships medalists
Olympic table tennis players of South Korea