Jang Woo-jin (born 10 September 1995) is a South Korean
table tennis
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player.
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
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,
South Korea
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without even having been a seeded player at the start of the tournament.
He became the first-ever ITTF World Tour triple crown winner in this event as well by also winning gold medals in men's doubles and mixed doubles.
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2020
In 2020 ITTF Men's World Cup, he was seeded at 12 and managed to reach up to semi-finals.
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
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in the round of 16 in the men's singles event in the Tokyo Olympics.
Singles titles
References
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1995 births
Living people
People from Sokcho
South Korean male table tennis players
Medalists at the 2018 Asian Games
Medalists at the 2022 Asian Games
Asian Games silver medalists for South Korea
Asian Games bronze medalists for South Korea
Table tennis players at the 2018 Asian Games
Table tennis players at the 2022 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 for South Korea
Table tennis players at the 2024 Summer Olympics
21st-century South Korean sportsmen