You Young

For the member of South Korean girl group Hello Venus, see Yooyoung.

This is a Korean name; the family name is You.

You Young
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Personal information
Native name	유영
Country represented	South Korea
Born	(2004-05-27) May 27, 2004 South Korea
Residence	Gwacheon, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea
Height
Coach	Han Sung-mi
Choreographer	Shin Yea-ji
Began skating	2010

You Young
Hangul	유영
Hanja	劉永
Revised Romanization	Yu Yeong
McCune–Reischauer	Yu Yŏng

You Young (born May 27, 2004) is a South Korean figure skater. She is the 2016 South Korean national champion. Thus You became the youngest ever national champion at just age 11 years, a year earlier than her heroine Kim Yuna.

Personal Life

She is the third child and only daughter of her father, You Il-jin, who runs a business in Indonesia, and mother, Lee Sook-hee. She moved to Indonesia at the age of two because of her father's business, and spent her youth in Singapore.

Early career

You was inspired to lace up her skates after watching Kim's gold medal winning routine at the 2010 Vancouver Games. But she first cut her teeth in Singapore, where she was raised. She trained under various coaches and competed in the Singapore National Figure Skating Championships from 2011 to 2013.

One of her coaches was Singapore-based Zhang Wei, a former Chinese national ice dancer who won gold with partner Wang Rui at the 1999 Asian Winter Games, who she trained with for a six-month period in 2012. Zhang said her talent was evident even then and told TODAY: "She's not the most talented athlete I've coached. But her jumps, explosive energy, flexibility and coordination were very good then, and it is very rare that you get all these qualities in one athlete, particularly at that age." He is confident that You has what it takes to become a future world and Olympic champion. On his advice, You returned to South Korea with her mother in March 2013 to further her development as the training environment is better.

In the 2015-2016 season, she won the gold medal at the 2016 South Korean Figure Skating Championships, becoming the youngest skater to ever win the title.

Programs

Season	Short program	Free skating	Exhibition
2015–2016	Hava Nagila Jewish Folk Music by various artists	Meeting Krishna (from Life of Pi) by Mychael Danna Don't You Worry Child by Swedish House Mafia performed by The Piano Guys choreo. by Shin Yea-ji	Meeting Krishna (from Life of Pi) by Mychael Danna Don't You Worry Child by Swedish House Mafia performed by The Piano Guys choreo. by Shin Yea-ji
2014–2015	Hava Nagila Jewish Folk Music by various artists	Romeo and Juliet: The Young Juliet Montagues and Capulets by Sergei Prokofiev

Competitive highlights

International
Event	2014–15	2015–16
Asian Open		2nd N.
Cup of Tyrol		1st N.
National
South Korean	6th	1st
Levels: N. = Advanced novice

Detailed results

2015–2016 season
Date	Event	Level	SP	FS	Total
March 9–13, 2016	2016 Cup of Tyrol	Novice	1 46.72	1 88.03	1 134.75
January 8–10, 2016	2016 South Korean Championships	Senior	1 61.09	1 122.66	1 183.75
August 5–8, 2015	2015 Asian Open Trophy	Novice	4 33.38	1 80.71	2 114.09
2014–2015 season
Date	Event	Level	SP	FS	Total
January 5–9, 2015	2015 South Korean Championships	Senior	6 52.15	7 97.14	6 149.29

Awards and Recognition

Year	Award	Category	Result
2016	21st Coca-Cola Sports Awards	Rookie of the Year	Won
	Korean Skating Union Merit Player Award Ceremony	Best Newcomer Award	Won
	Sports Marketing Award Korea	Promising Female Athlete	Won