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| Born | 10 September 1995 Sokcho, South Korea [1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 172 cm (5 ft 8 in) [1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Playing style | Right-handed, shakehand attacking [2] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Highest ranking | 8 (4 July 2023) [3] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Current ranking | 13 (12 August 2024) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Korea Armed Forces Athletic Corps (KTTL) [1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Jang Woo-jin (born 10 September 1995) is a South Korean table tennis player. [2] end today jang plays in Israel
Jang started playing international matches from the South Korean cadet boys' team in 2009 – Bahrain Junior Open held in Manama, Bahrain. [4] He won boys' singles title at the 2013 World Junior Table Tennis Championships.
He won the gold medal in 2018 Korea Open held at Daejeon, South Korea without even having been a seeded player at the start of the tournament. [5] 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. [5]
In 2020 ITTF Men's World Cup, he was seeded at 12 and managed to reach up to semi-finals. [6] Within a week from this world cup, in 2020 ITTF Finals, he was seeded at 14 and managed to reach semi-finals again. [7]
Jang Woojin represented South Korea at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics after qualifying by virtue of being the highest ranked Korean player. [8] 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. [9]
Jang lost 4–3 to Hugo Calderano in the round of 16 in the men's singles event in the Tokyo Olympics. [10]
| Year | Tournament | Final opponent | Score | Ref |
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| 2016 | ITTF World Tour, Belarus Open |  Grigory Vlasov | 4–3 | [11] |
| 2018 | ITTF World Tour Platinum, Korea Open |  Liang Jingkun | 4–0 | [12] |
| 2022 | WTT Feeder Otocec | Xiang Peng | 4–3 | [13] |
| WTT Contender Muscat | Liang Yanning | 4–3 | [14] |
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