Date of birth | 10 November 1994 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Height | 175 cm (5 ft 9 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 77 kg (170 lb; 12 st 2 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Jang Jeong-min (born 10 November 1994) is a South Korean rugby sevens player. [1] He competed for South Korea at the 2020 Summer Olympics.
Jang was in middle school when he discovered rugby and decided to join his school's rugby club. [2] He continued playing rugby at Yonsei University. [2]
Jang was a member of the South Korean sevens team that competed at the delayed 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. [3] [4] He also represented South Korea at the 2022 Rugby World Cup Sevens in Cape Town, South Africa. [5]
In 2023, He was selected in the South Korean fifteens squad for the Asia Rugby Championship in June. [6] Later in September that year, he competed in rugby sevens at the Asian Games in Hangzhou, China. [7] He scored a brace of tries to help his side beat China in the semi-final and secure a spot in the gold medal playoff. [7] They eventually won silver after their 14–7 loss to Hong Kong in the final. [8] [9]