You Young Wiki, Age, Bio, Height, Boyfriend, Career, and Net Worth

You Young is a South Korean figure skater. She is 18 years old and of South Korean nationality, according to her birth date.

Wiki, Bio, Family, Siblings, Childhood & Education

You Young was born on May 27, 2004, in Seoul, South Korea. She is 18 years old and of South Korean nationality, according to her birth date. Similarly, she was born under the sign of Gemini and is of Korean descent.

She is the only child of You Il-jin (father) and Lee Sook-hee (mother) (mother). Her father owns and operates a business in Indonesia. She relocated to Indonesia when she was two years old due to her father’s work and spent her youth in Singapore.

When it came to her educational career, she enrolled in Bukit Timah primary school and stayed for a year before returning to South Korea.

You Young’s Age, Height, Weight, and Body Dimensions

This figure skater has a height of 5 feet 5 inches. However, little is known about her weight, dress size, shoe size, and other details. According to her photos and images, you have brown eyes and black hair.

You Young’s Profession & Career

Young began skating after watching Yuna Kim win the Winter Olympics in 2010. She was reared in Singapore, trained with numerous coaches, and competed in the Singapore National Figure Skating Championships from 2011 to 2013.

One of her trainers in 2012 was Zhang Wei, a former Chinese national ice dancer who won gold with partner Wang Rui at the 1999 Asian Winter Games. Her coach believes You have what it takes to one day become a global and Olympic champion.

You returned to South Korea with her mother in March 2013 on the advice of her coach to further her growth because the training atmosphere is superior. In January 2016, she won gold in the 2016 South Korean Figure Skating Championships, becoming the country’s youngest-ever national champion at the age of 11, breaking Yuna Kim’s previous record of age 12 in 2003.

She also won gold at the Cup of Tyrol’s novice level in March. In November 2016, she finished second to Alena Kanysheva of Russia at the Tallinn Trophy novice level. Later, in January 2017, she came fifth in the 2017 South Korean Figure Skating Championships, owing primarily to a short program fall.

Junior international debut in the 2017-2018 season

You made your JGP debut in September 2018, finishing fourth at JGP Croatia in Zagreb. In October, she finished fifth at the JGP Italy in Egna. In addition, in January 2018, she won gold at the 2018 South Korean Figure Skating Championships, her second national title.

She finished tenth at the World Junior Championships. In August 2018, she debuted on the JGP circuit, collecting bronze at JGP Slovakia in Bratislava behind Russians Anna Shcherbakova and Anna Tarusina. It is her lone JGP medal at the moment.

She then came in fourth place at the JGP Canada in Richmond, British Columbia, Canada. You Young was also chosen to compete in the 2019 World Junior Championships after capturing her third national title.

She won gold in 2019 Bavarian Open and the 2019 Winter Children of Asia ISG in February 2019. She improved to sixth place overall with a stronger free skate after finishing eleventh in the Junior Worlds short program.

First Senior International appearance (2019-2020)

You began her season by winning gold at the 2019 Philadelphia Summer International. She debuted on the Challenger Series in 2019, finishing third behind Russians Anna Shcherbakova and Elizaveta Tuktamysheva at the 2019 CS Lombardia Trophy after placing second in the short program and third in the free program.

She scored more than 70 points in the short program, 130 points in the free skate, and 200 points overall for the first time in an ISU-sanctioned competition. One week later, you won silver at another Challenger, the 2019 CS U.S. Classic, scoring over 140 points in the free skate for the first time.

She entered the 2020 South Korean Championships as the defending champion, and given her international achievements, she was expected to defend her title. You earned the gold medal after finishing first in both segments, beating out Lee Hae-in and Kim Ye-lim.

She became the first Korean skater to win a medal in Four Continents since Yuna Kim in 2009. Her senior World Championship debut in Montreal was canceled owing to the coronavirus outbreak.

Recent Professional Experience

In 2021, you competed in the South Korean Championships. Despite being called out for under-rotation, she won the short program, but fell twice in the free skate, including on her triple Axel attempt, and finished fourth overall.

As a result, she was not selected for Korea’s 2021 World Championship team. You started the 2021-2022 season at the Cranberry Cup at the Skating Club of Boston, where she finished second, 30 points behind champion Alysa Liu.

She then competed in the Challenger series at the 2021 CS Autumn Classic International, where she was highly viewed as a gold medal candidate but placed second to Cyprus’s Marilena Kitromilis. In neither competition, she landed a clean triple Axel.

After falling on her triple Axel attempt, she finished fifth in the short program at the 2021 Skate America Grand Prix. You did not land her triple Axel in either part of her second tournament, the 2021 NHK Trophy, but she finished third in the short program and second in the free skate to capture her second Grand Prix bronze medal of the season.

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She was the favorite to win gold in both segments at the 2022 South Korean Championships. Furthermore, she and Kim were nominated to the South Korean Olympic team and will compete at the 2022 Four Continents Championships alongside bronze medalist Lee Hae-in.

Her 2022-2023 season began with a silver medal at the 2022 U.S. Classic, trailing compatriot Kim Ye-lim. She went on to win bronze at Skate Canada 2022.

In 2016, she was named Rookie of the Year at the 21st Coca-Cola Sports Awards, as well as Best Newcomer at the Korean Skating Union Merit Player Award Ceremony, Sports Marketing Award Korea: Promising Female Athlete, and Most Valuable Player at the Gyeonggi Newspaper Sports Athlete Award. Similarly, she secured a spot in the 2018 Pyeongchang Olympics as the first torch bearer in South Korea in 2017.

You Young’s Salary and Net Worth

You Young has not publicly disclosed her earnings, salary, or income. According to certain web sources, her net worth is estimated to be approximately $1.5 million, which she got from her work.

You Young’s Boyfriend, Marriage & Relationship

In terms of Your connection, she is still an adolescent and is not in any form of relationship. However, it appears that she is single and not dating anyone at the time. You prefer to prevent scandals and controversies that could jeopardize her professional career.

You Young’s Social Media(Facebook, Twitter, Instagram)

Her Instagram account has more than 98.6k followers. You, on the other hand, is not active on social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter.

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