Native name 유영 Began skating 2010 Choreographer Shin Yea-ji Coach Choi Hyung-kyung | Height 1.43 m (4 ft 8 ⁄2 in) Residence Gwacheon, South Korea Country represented South Korea Former coach Han Sung-mi | |
Born May 27, 2004 (age 12) ( 2004-05-27 ) South Korea | ||
You Young (born May 27, 2004) is a South Korean figure skater. She is the 2016 South Korean national champion. She became the youngest ever national champion of South Korea at age 11, surpassing the previous record set by Kim Yuna when she won at age 12 in 2003.
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Personal life
You Young is the third child and only daughter of her father, You Il-jin, who runs a business in Indonesia, and mother, Lee Sook-hee. She moved to Indonesia at the age of two because of her father's business, and spent her youth in Singapore.
Early career
You Young began skating after watching Kim Yuna's victory at the 2010 Winter Olympic Games. Though maintaining South Korean nationality, she was raised was raised in Singapore and trained under various coaches and competed in the Singapore National Figure Skating Championships from 2011 to 2013.
One of her coaches was Singapore-based Zhang Wei, a former Chinese national ice dancer who won gold with partner Wang Rui at the 1999 Asian Winter Games, who she trained with for a six-month period in 2012. Zhang said her talent was evident even then and told TODAY: "She's not the most talented athlete I've coached. But her jumps, explosive energy, flexibility and coordination were very good then, and it is very rare that you get all these qualities in one athlete, particularly at that age." He is confident that You has what it takes to become a future world and Olympic champion. On his advice, You returned to South Korea with her mother in March 2013 to further her development as the training environment is better.
In the 2015-2016 season, she won the gold medal at the 2016 South Korean Figure Skating Championships, becoming the youngest skater to ever win the title.
In 2017, she finished 5th at the 2017 South Korean Figure Skating Championships mainly because of a fall in the short program.