Quick Facts of You Young

You Young is a Figure Skater from South Korea. Moreover, Young is the 2020 Four Continents silver medalist, a four-time Grand Prix bronze medalist, a four-time Challenger series medalist, and a five-time South Korean national champion (2016, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022).

How much is the Net worth of You Young?

You Young hasn’t publicly made her income, salary, or earnings available to the public. However, other web sources claim that she may have a net worth of $1.5 million, which she acquired from her work.

Early Years and Bio

You Young was born in Seoul, South Korea, on May 27, 2004. She is a South Korean national who, based on her birth date, is 18 years old. She is also of Korean descent and was born under the sign of Gemini. Also, She is the sole child of You Il-jin (the father) and Lee Sook-hee (mother). Her father is a professional businessman that operates in Indonesia. She spent her early years in Singapore before moving to Indonesia at the age of two due to her father’s company.

Eduation

She enrolled in Bukit Timah elementary school as she neared the start of her academic career and attended for a year before leaving for South Korea.

What is the Professional Career of You Young?

Earlier Years

After witnessing Yuna Kim win the 2010 Winter Olympics, You Young took up skating. She was up in Singapore and holds South Korean citizenship, but she trained with other trainers and participated in the Singapore National Figure Skating Championships from 2011 to 2013. One of her trainers in 2012 was Zhang Wei, a former member of the Chinese national ice dance team who won gold with partner Wang Rui at the Asian Winter Games in 1999. Your coach thinks you have what it takes to one day win an Olympic and world championship.

You and her mother returned to South Korea in March 2013 on the advise of her coach to continue developing herself in a more favorable training environment. At age 11, she broke Yuna Kim’s previous record of age 12 in 2003 by winning the gold medal at the 2016 South Korean Figure Skating Championships and becoming the nation’s youngest-ever national champion.

She also won the novice level gold medal at the Cup of Tyrol in March. In November 2016, she came in second place to Russian competitor Alena Kanysheva at the beginner level of the Tallinn Trophy. Later, partly as a result of a short program fall, she placed fifth at the 2017 South Korean Figure Skating Championships in January 2017.

2017–2018 season: Junior international debut

In September 2018, you competed in her first Junior Grand Prix (JGP), placing fourth in Zagreb. In October, she placed fifth at the JGP Italy in Egna. She also won gold, her second national title, at the 2018 South Korean Figure Skating Championships in January 2018. At the March 2018 World Junior Championships, she placed eighth. In August 2018, she made her JGP series debut and finished third behind Russian competitors Anna Shcherbakova and Anna Tarusina at JGP Slovakia in Bratislava. She now holds just one JGP medal.

Then, in Richmond, British Columbia, Canada, she came in fourth place at the JGP Canada. She also earned a spot in the 2019 World Junior Championships by winning her third national championship. She won gold in the 2019 Winter Children of Asia ISG and the 2019 Bavarian Open in February of that year. Also, She improved to sixth place overall with a stronger free skate following a weak short program that earned her eleventh place at Junior Worlds.

Senior International debut (2019-2020)

You won a gold medal in the 2019 Philadelphia Summer International to kick off her season. After placing second in the short program and third in the free program, she made her Challenger Series debut in 2019 by winning bronze at the CS Lombardia Trophy, behind Russians Anna Shcherbakova and Elizaveta Tuktamysheva. She earned more than 70 points in the short program, 130 points in the free skate, and 200 points overall for the first time ever in an ISU-sanctioned competition. A week later, you took home the silver medal at the 2019 CS U.S. Classic, another Challenger, after achieving over 140 points in the free skate for the first time.

She was defending her title when the 2020 South Korean Championships began, and considering her success on the world stage, she was expected to win again. You beat Lee Hae-in and Kim Ye-lim to the gold medal after taking first place in both of your competitions. She was the first skater from Korea to medal at Four Continents since Yuna Kim, the 2009 Olympic champion. Due to the coronavirus epidemic, her senior World Championship debut that was slated for Montreal was postponed.

Recent Career

In 2021, you participated in the South Korean Championships. She won the short program despite receiving under-rotation calls, but she finished fourth overall after falling twice in the free skate, including when attempting a triple Axel. She was not selected for Korea’s 2021 World Championship team as a result. Also, She won the silver medal in the Cranberry Cup competition at the Skating Club of Boston to start the 2021–2022 season, finishing 30 points behind the winner Alysa Liu.

She then participated in the Challenger series at the 2021 CS Autumn Classic International, when Marilena Kitromilis of Cyprus unexpectedly won the competition. Despite being generally considered a gold medal candidate, Kitromilis ultimately came in second. At either competition, she was unable to land a clean triple Axel. After failing on her attempt at a triple Axel during the 2021 Skate America Grand Prix short program, you placed sixth overall.

 

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The 2021 NHK Trophy was your second competition, and despite the fact that you failed to land your triple Axel in either of the segments, you still finished third in the short program and second in the free skate to take home your second bronze medal of the Grand Prix season. She came into the South Korean Championships in 2022 as the favorite and took home the gold in both of her competitions. Also, She and Kim will compete with bronze medalist Lee Hae-in at the 2022 Four Continents Championships after being selected for the South Korean Olympic team. She finished second to teammate Kim Ye-lim for the silver medal in the 2022 U.S. Classic to start her 2022–2023 campaign. She later won bronze at Skate Canada 2022.

Awards and Achivements

She received several awards in 2016 including Rookie of the Year at the 21st Coca-Cola Sports Awards, Best Newcomer at the Korean Skating Union Merit Player Award Ceremony, Promising Female Athlete at the Sports Marketing Award Korea, and Most Valuable Player at the Gyeonggi Newspaper Sports Athlete Award. She also secured a spot at the Pyeongchang Olympics in 2018, serving as the first torch bearer in South Korea in 2017.

Is You Young single?

She is still a teen and not involved in any form of relationship, in contrast to You. She does not appear to be dating anyone right now, however, and she may be single. Since scandals and controversies can hurt her professional career, you prefer to stay away from them.

Body Stats and Social Media

This skater’s height is 5 feet 5 inches. Her weight, dress size, shoe size, and other details are not widely known. You have black hair and brown eyes, based on her photos and images. She has more than 98.8k followers on Instagram. You are not active on social networking websites like Facebook and Twitter, though.