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
Mirae Asset Securities Co., Ltd. () is the largest investment banking and brokerage firm, stock brokerage company by market capitalization in South Korea. Mirae Asset Securities has been merged with Daewoo Securities as the end of December 2016.
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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
Manama ( ar, المنامة ', Bahrani Arabic, Bahrani pronunciation: ) is the capital and largest city of Bahrain, with an approximate population of 200,000 people as of 2020. Long an important trading center in the Persian Gulf, Manama is h ...
, Bahrain
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. He won boys' singles title at the 2013 World Junior Table Tennis Championships
The 2013 ITTF World Junior Table Tennis Championships were held in Rabat, Morocco, from 1 to 8 December 2013. It was organised by the Fédération Royale Marocaine de Tennis de Table (FRMTT) under the auspices and authority of the International T ...
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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 and ...
, 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, 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
Ruwen Filus is a German table tennis player who plays for German club TTC RhönSprudel Fulda-Maberzell in the German Tischtennis-Bundesliga.
Career
2021
In March, Filus played in WTT Doha. In the WTT Star Contender event, he upset Jang Woo ...
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Jang lost 4–3 to Hugo Calderano
Hugo Marinho Borges Calderano (born 22 June 1996, in Rio de Janeiro) is a table tennis player from Brazil. In January 2022, he peaked at number 3 in the world rankings, becoming the greatest Americas player of all time.
He is the first-ever pl ...
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